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January 1: The first day of the 3rd millennium is celebrated on New Year's Day; though with dispute. February 9: Torrential rains in Africa lead to the worst flooding in [until March and kills 800 people. February 17 - Microsoft released Windows 2000. March 10: Dot-com bubble bursts, causing stock markets worldwide to crash.
List of timelines; Chronology; See calendar and list of calendars for other groupings of years. See history, history by period, and periodization for different organizations of historical events. For earlier time periods, see Timeline of the Big Bang, Geologic time scale, Timeline of evolution, and Logarithmic timeline
A graphical view of the Cosmic Calendar, featuring the months of the year, days of December, and the final minute. The Cosmic Calendar is a method to visualize the chronology of the universe , scaling its current age of 13.8 billion years to a single year in order to help intuit it for pedagogical purposes in science education or popular science .
1927 – Sacco and Vanzetti executed, seven years after they were convicted of murdering two men during an armed robbery in Massachusetts; 1927 – Charles Lindbergh makes first trans–Atlantic flight; 1927 – The Jazz Singer, the first motion picture with sound, is released; 1927 – U.S. citizenship granted to inhabitants of U.S. Virgin Islands
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The 20th century began on 1 January 1901 (MCMI), and ended on 31 December 2000 (MM). [1] [2] It was the 10th and last century of the 2nd millennium and was marked by new models of scientific understanding, unprecedented scopes of warfare, new modes of communication that would operate at nearly instant speeds, and new forms of art and entertainment.
1900 was an exceptional common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar, the 1900th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 900th year of the 2nd millennium, the 100th and last year of the 19th century, and the 1st year of the 1900s decade. As of the ...
List of timelines around the world. Logarithmic timeline shows all history on one page in ten lines. Orders of magnitude (time) Periodization for a discussion of the tendency to try to fit history into non-overlapping periods. Time. Planck Time