|
| |
When did the millennium begin?
This millennium (and century) officially begun on: 1 January 2001
GMT
The simple explanation is that our Calendar System began at 1AD. There
was no year 0. The calendar we use today goes from 1BC to 1AD.
The calendar base that we use today was not conceived until the year 525
AD. At that time the Roman Calendar was still being used which was based
on the founding of the city of Rome on April 22, 753 BC. The new calendar
was conceived by a monk called Dionysius Exiguus. He proposed that Christ
was born in the year of Rome 753 (but most historians agree that it should
have been some years earlier_. The Venerable Bede, an English monk, through his
writings in the 8th century re-chronicled history. Up to that time people
had been living, say, in the (Roman) year 1500 suddenly found they were
living in 747 AD. (I.E. Don't believe anyone who finds a coin with a year
in the first 6 centuries AD (they didn't exist for the people living in that
time)!
- For a full explanation of calendaring see here.
| |
Advertisement:
|
|
|
Google Site Search:
|
|
|
Advertisement:
|
|
|
News:
|
|
Daylight Saving Time
in USA
& Canada:
Sunday 14 March 2010 -
Sunday 7 November 2010
Europe / UK clocks on
Summer Time / Daylight Saving Time:
Sunday 28 March 2010 01:00 GMT -
Sunday 31 October 2010
|
|
| Time in: |
|
USA + Canada
|
Atlantic Time (Canada),
Eastern
Time (EST),
Central Time (CST),
Mountain Time (MT),
Pacific Time (PST),
Alaska Time (AKST),
Hawaii Time (HST),
Daylight
Saving Time (DST)
|
|
Europe
|
Central European Time (CET),
Eastern European Time (EET),
Western European Time (WET),
British Summer Time (BST)
|
|
Asia /
Pacific
|
China Time (CST),
India
Time (IST),
Japan
Time (JST)
|
|
Watches
|
| Clocks &
Watches,
Popular Watches |
|
Countries
on GMT
|
|
Europe
(Winter only)
|
|
UK,
Ireland,
Portugal
|
|
Africa
|
|
St
Helena,
Burkina Faso,
Gambia,
Ghana,
Guinea,
Guinea-Bissau,
Ivory Coast,
Liberia,
Mali,
Mauritania,
Morocco,
Sao Tome,
Senegal,
Togo,
Western Sahara
|
|
|
