Millennium

A millennium is a period of one thousand consecutive years. When dating years, each millennium begins the year after a year divisible by 1000, e.g. 1001, 2001. The use of the odd year is due to the fact that the Gregorian Calendar has no year zero, and thus the first millennium is years 1 to 1000 and the second millennium starts in 1001.

There was a popular debate leading up to the celebrations of the year 2000 as to whether 2000 was the true "new millennium". Some argued that the new millennium should begin when the first digit of the year changes; however, as there is no year zero in the gregorian calendar, this would result in the first millennium being 999 years long. Others argued that our entire system of dates is so arbitrary and meaningless that it is impossible to define the "true" date of a millennium.

Wikipedia has a page for each millennium: See millennia.

Millennium was also a suspenseful television series, produced by the creators of The X-Files and set during the run-up to the new millennium (it premiered in 1996).

It featured actor Lance Henriksen as investigator Frank Black.

Millennium is a science fiction novel by John Varley, featuring a civilization from a far-future Earth using time travel to rescue passengers from airplanes destined to crash. The Earth is heavily polluted in the far future, and humanity's gene pool irreparably damaged; the doomed passengers were being rescued to serve as colonists who would rebuild civilization on a fresh planet once enough had been collected.

A movie of the same name was based on this book.