3rd millennium

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The third millennium is the third period of one thousand years in the Common Era.

Start and end dates

There are two ranges of dates which are recognised as the third millennium, depending on the start date, namely:

For those who start counting their calendar from January 1 1, then the third millennium began on January 1, 2001 and will end on December 31, 3000 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar or other calendars based on the BC/AD system of calendar eras.

In the sense of astronomical year numbering or the ISO 8601 standard, both of which precede Year 1 with Year 0, the third millennium began on January 1, 2000 and will end on December 31, 2999. The majority of the celebrations for the start of the third millennium occurred at midnight on December 31 1999 / January 1 2000. The first decade of the new millennium (see below) contains the year 2000.

September 11, 2001 attacks are one of the few events of the progressing 3rd Millennium that have had significant and polarizing effects on international affairs and relations.
Some millennialists and Christian anarchists predict the third millennium will be the millennium of peace, when mankind finally learns to live in harmony with each other and nature.
The End of the World begins in the year 2240, year 6000 in the Hebrew lunar calendar, according to the Jewish calendar found in the Talmud.