Last fiddled with January 2, 2000

In our Year 2000, it is 6632 in the Chinese Calendar 5760 in the Hebrew Calendar 1420 in the Muslim Calendar

Millenium Time Line

A Millenium is 1,000 Years, or 10 centuries. We are at the cusp of a 1,000 year cycle in our calendar. The list below is subjective, and focuses only on highlights.

The Year 2000 Marks the end of not just the 1900's (the "teens"), it's Farewell to:

The 11th Century
1000: Climax of Mayan Civilization on the Yucatan Peninsula; Europe in midst of 1,000 year Dark Ages; Muslims refining algebra, chemistry, and medicine
1062: Marrakech founded
1066: Norman Conquest of England; Halley's comet
1078: Beginning construction of the Tower of London
1088: Chung-Jen, Chinese painter, first uses India ink on silk

The 12th Century

1125: Earliest account of a mariner's Magnetic Compass
1135: Moses Maimonides, Jewish religious philosopher, b. (d. 1204)
1150: Arabs manufacturing paper in Spain
1140: Vladislav II of Bohemia - beheads 50,000 of his enemies (The Original "Dracula")
1151: First fire and plague insurance, in Iceland; Chess arrives in England
1155-1227: Genghis Khan conquers most of the eastern world, kills millions
1177: Founding of Belfast
1180: Glass windows appear in English private houses
1191: Tea arrives in Japan from China
1199: Founding of Liverpool

The 13th Century

1215: Magna Carta changes England from a Regal state to a Legal state
1252-1750: Inquistion and torture
1278: Invention of the glass mirror
1298: Marco Polo returns from his adventures and begins his memoirs
1280 on: Founding of first European universities, Montpelier and Lisbon
1280-1286: Tov de Leon's "Book of Splendor" (The Zohar)

The 14th Century

1302: Papal Bull "Unam Sanctam" pronounces highest papal claims to supremacy
1328: Invention of the sawmill
1330's - 90's: Chaucer and Boccaccio write popular literature
1347-1352: Black Death, Bubonic plague, kills 75 Million Europeans- 1 person in 4
1354: First clock at Strasbourg
1364: Aztecs build Tenochitlan
1378: Schism in the Catholic church; two Popes at once (Urban in Rome & Clement at Avignon)
1370's on: Proliferation of cathedrals and Gothic architecture

The 15th Century

1412: Brunelleschi writes "Rules of Perspective," revolutionizing painting/art
1430: Beginning of modern English
1450-1700: Renaissance artists Fra Angelico, Van Eyck, Botticelli, Holbein, Michelangelo, Da Vinci, Bosch, Durer, Raphael
1453: Gutenberg invents movable type printing (Mazarin Bible, at Mainz)
1479: Union of Aragon and Castile (Ferdinand and Isabella) beginning of Spanish State
1480: Ivan III begins the line of Russian Czars
1492: Consolidation of Spain, voyages of Columbus, expulsion of Jews from Spain
1495: First epidemic of Syphilis

The 16th Century

1500: Beginning of High Renaissance, first lead pencils
1503: Completion of Canterbury Cathedral (begun in 1078)
1507: Borgia Pope's corruption in the Catholic Church
1509: Earthquake destroys Constantinople
1515: Henry the VIII on his 4th wife (of 6)
1517: Martin Luther protests Papal corruption; begins Protestant Reformation
1519: Cortez meets Montezuma; brings an end to the Aztec civilization; brings horses to the Americas, European supression/infiltration of central/south American culture
1519: Magellan's ships circumnavigate the world
1530: Nicolaus Copernicus refutes Ptolemaic theory, says the earth rotates on its axis and all the planets rotate around the sun (Confirmed by Galileo 1608)
1531: Henry VIII becomes Supreme Head of Church of England
1539: First Christmas tree, at Strasbourg Cathedral
1541: Calvin returns to Geneva, begins his reign
1554: Catholic restoration in England
1569: 40,000 inhabitants of Lisbon, Portugal, die of fever
1573: Francis Drake first westerner to see the Pacific Ocean
1575: Elizabeth I Queen of England restores freedom of religion to England
1583: Hideyoshi begins Samurai reign at Osaka
1589: Forks first used in France
1592: 15,000 die in London of plague
1594: Shakespeare begins writing plays

The 17th Century

1607: Founding of Jamestown, VA, first English settlement in North America; Beginning of the degredation and near extinction of the Native population of North America (ongoing)
1608: Galileo constructs first astronomical telescope; is imprisoned by the Church for verifying Copernicus' theories (rescinded 1993)
1612: Tobacco first cultivated in Virginia; Black slaves being shipped into the southern states
1632: First coffee shop in London
1655: First regular newspaper in Berlin
1665: 68,596 die of plague in London
1670: First minute hands on watches
1680: The Dodo becomes extinct; Stradivari begins making musical instruments
1682: Jean Luc Picard, French astronomer; Halley's Comet
1685: Birth of Bach, Scarlatti
1688: First plate glass mass produced
1698: Paper manufacture begins in North America

The 18th Century

1700: First indoor toilets (Since Rome)
1705: Handel writing music; Bach walks 200 miles to Lubeck to hear Buxtehude; Edmund Halley accurately predicts the return of the comet seen in 1682
1707: Last eruption of Fujiyama
1718: Founding of New Orleans
1720: First wallpaper
1727: First coffee planted in Brazil
1738: First cuckoo clocks
1750: Population of Europe approximately 140 million
1751: China invades Tibet
1752: Parliament adopts Gregorian calendar (the one that's at 2000); makes January 1st the first day of the new year
1756: Birth of Mozart; Benjamin Franklin writing; first chocolate factory in Germany
1764: James Watt invents the steam engine
1768: First Encyclopedia Britannica
1770: Birth of Beethoven, Boston Massacre, beginnings of tension between America and Britain
1776-77: American revolution
1787: Dollar currency introduced in U.S.
1789: French revolution
1792: First gas illumination in France
1794: "Auld Lang Syne" written by Burns; first telegraph

The 19th Century

1800: Napoleon conquers Italy; Volta invents the first battery
1810: Napoleon's peak of power
1823: First calculating machine (Babbage)
1825: Beethoven's 9th Symphony first performed
1829: First electric motor
1831: Population of USA 12.8 million
1833-50: Composers Brahms, Chopin, Berlioz, Wagner
1835: P.T. Barnum begins his career; Halley's comet
1838: Invention of Daguerrotype phtotography (Louis Daguerre)
1839: Charles Goodyear makes commercial use of rubber possible (vulcanization)
1840: 2,816 miles of railroad in operation in U.S., 1,331 in England
1848: California gold rush
1850: Composers Verdi, Faure, Mendelssohn
1853: Samuel Colt revolutionizes the manufacture of small arms
1859: Darwin describes human evolution in "Origin of Species"
1860: First internal combustion engine
1863-67: Systematic slaughter of an estimated 70 Million North American Buffalo
1861-65: Civil war in the United States; 600,000 killed
1865: US President Abraham Lincoln assassinated, April 14
1866: Composers Offenbach, Smetana, Bizet, Gounod, Brahms, ; Artists Degas, Monet, Cezanne, Renoir; Writers Dostoevsky, Ibsen, H.G. Wells, Walt Whitman, Lewis Carroll, Mark Twain, Yeats, Kipling, Baudelaire
1867: Karl Marx writes "Das Kapital"
1869: Completion of the coast-to-coast railroad across the USA, the Golden Spike, Promontory, Utah, May 10
1870-90: Edison invents telegraph, phonograph, light bulb, hydroelectric power
1876: Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone
1887: Artists Chagall, Van Gogh, Toulouse-Lautrec; Composers Franck, Berlin, Tchaikovsky, Gilbert & Sullivan, Strauss, Mahler
1890: First steel framed building in Chicago
1892: Invention of Rayon; famine in Russia
1893: Henry Ford makes his first automobile; first horizontal gramophone discs
1895: Roentgen discovers X-Rays; Freud is writing
1899: First magnetic recording of sound

The 20th Century

1900: First Zeppelin airships; radon discovered; radio first used; the Birth of Jazz
1904: Work begins on the Panama Canal; first airplane flight (1903)
1906: Populations: London, 4.5 mil.; New York, 4 mil.; Tokyo 1.9 mil.; San Francisco earthquake/fire; beginning of Cubist art; first bicycles with same-size wheels
1910: The "Weekend" idea becomes popular; Halley's comet; Frank Lloyd Wright becomes famous; radio becomes prominent form of entertainment
1912: Titanic sinks
1914: Charlie Chaplin making movies; World War One 1914-1917, 8.5 million killed
1917: Russian revolution; Russia becomes a communist country
1918-20: Spanish Flu epidemic kills 22 million people world wide (500,000 in the U.S.A.); US population 103.5 million; Gandhi leads independence movement in India
1919: Prohibition passes (18th Amendment) - Alcohol illegal nationally until 1933; 19th Amendment grants U.S. women the right to vote
1925: First movies with sound ("Talkies"); John Logie Baird transmits first television images; Carl Jung is writing
1927: Charles Lindbergh flies from London to Paris in 33.4 hours
1928: Jonas Salk discovers Penicillin
1929: Wall Street crashes, brings world depression until 1939; Stalin brings horror to Russia until 1959; 75 to 100 million dead

1930: United States racked with depression, widespread poverty and unemployment, beginning of Roosevelt's "New Deal."
1936: Construction of Hoover Dam on the Colorado River
1937: The Zeppelin "Hindenburg" crashes; Marijuana tax act criminalizes hemp; nylon patented
1939: Television first demonstrated at the New York World's Fair

1941-45: World War Two; 55 Million dead, 35 million wounded, 3 million missing; Nazi holocaust; detonation of the Atomic Bomb
1942: The First Computer - the ABC, designed by John Atanasoff & Clifford Berry
1946: ENIAC - the Sperry Rand Corporation computer; mistakenly thought of as the "First"
1947: Transistors patented
1948: Establishment of the State of Israel
1949: Mao Tse Tung founds Communist China

1950: 1.5 million TV sets in US; one year later 15 million; Bradbury writes "Martian Chronicles"
1953: Polio vaccine first used; DNA's structure discovered
1956: Elvis Presley on top; transatlantic cable telephone
1957: Sputnik, first satellite; The Cat in The Hat
1959: China invades Tibet (again), 1 million dead (ongoing); Computer chips first patented

1960: First lasers; first warnings about the dangers of cigarettes; 85 million TV sets in the US; Birth Control Pills
1961: Berlin Wall - Communist partition of Germany - the "Cold War" (until 1989)
1963: Assassination of US President Kennedy; first men in space; race riots in Alabama; advent of the Beatles (US Tour 1964)
1967: Cultural schism in US over Vietnam "War," first widespread questioning of the Old Order; hippies, mind expanding drugs, Rock and Roll, the Generation Gap; first heart transplants; Civil Rights for Blacks
1968: Martin Luther King shot; student riots at the Chicago National Convention
1969: Manson family / Tate-LaBianca killings; 225 million telephones in the world; Neil Armstrong first man on the moon; trousers first become acceptable for women

1970: National Guardsmen kill four student protesters at Kent State; Dow Jones plummets to 631; world population approx. 3 1/2 billion
1972: Dow Jones first breaks 1000; Nixon first President to visit modern China; Britain imposes direct rule on Ireland; gasoline shortages in US
1974: Fax machines can transmit one page in 6 minutes
1975: Bill Gates and Paul Allen start Microsoft; Saturday Night Live Premieres
1976: National Academy of Science first connects flourocarbons to the hole in the Ozone layer; environmental movements pick up pace
1978: Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini topples Shah of Iran, return of strict fundmentalist Islamic Rule

1980: John Lennon murdered; first cases of AIDS; Reagan/Thatcherism engenders the Punk movement
1981: First space shuttle
1984: A baboon heart is transplanted into a girl (Baby Fae); Apple releases the Macintosh computer with mouse; Gorbachev begins Glasnost
1986: Space shuttle Challenger explodes; Halley's comet
1989: Fall of the Berlin Wall (since 1961); collapse of the Soviet system; World Wide Web invented

1990: First gene therapy; English channel tunnel completed; Hubble telescope activated; Rave and House music supplants establishment Rock; "Desert Storm" war with Iraq (1991)
1992: Videotaped police beatings of Rodney King and subsequent aquittal of the cops spark Epic Riots in Los Angeles
1993: End of Apartheid in Africa; economic recovery begins; "Netiquette"; Microsoft releases it's copy of Macintosh: Windows; NAFTA opens international borders to corporate expansion; Pope rescinds the edict against Galileo (1608)
1994: 25 million computers on the Internet; up from 213 in 1981; Hubble Orbital telescope provides best ever images of space
1995: Yitzach Rabin, Prime Minister of Israel, is murdered; rise of the Politically Correct hierarchy; Death of Jerry Garcia pauses the Grateful Dead's 30 year jam (revived in 2003); [Launching of This Website]
1996: Strife in the Balkans; Islamic fundamentalist (Taliban) domination/dictatorship of Afghanistan
1997: Pathfinder sends Mars photos back to earth; scientists clone sheep in Great Britain
1998-99: Restructuring of British Government (House of Lords); Liberation of Ireland
1999: Technology stocks drive the NASDAQ to astronomical levels; first circumnavigation of the globe in a balloon; the Westernized world obsesses about their calendar

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Since 1,000, we have emerged from the Dark Ages, conquered numerous diseases, explored space, and actualized the dream of a "Mechanical Mind" - the Computer. HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!!!!!!