This page gives the TRUTH about when the new millennium started. Almost every organization on earth made the most stupid mistake about when we would enter the new millennium.

The new millennium must necessarily begin after the previous one thousand year period has been completed.

Many people, being confused by the millennium bug news, think that the millennium change coincides with the moment that 1999 becomes 2000. Others who think a little further assume that our calander started with the year zero.

But, how disappointing for them, the modern calendar did not start with a year zero.

Credit for the modern calendar is given to a sixth-century monk named Dionysius Exiguss (Dennis the Short) who was commissioned by Pope St. John I to create a chronology of time. Dionysius estimated Christ's birth at 753 A.U.C. (from the founding of Rome), and then restarted time beginning with the year of Christ's birth as Year 1 A.D. (A.D. stands for "anno domini" or "the year of our lord"). Indeed, when Dionysius created this new numbering of time, the whole concept of a zero did not even exist.

Accordingly, since we started with year 1, the first year will be completed at the end of year 1, the first century at the end of A.D. 100, the first millennium at A.D. 1000, and the second millennium at the end of A.D. 2000. By this logic, as of January 1, 2001, we will have completed exactly two thousand years and will be ready to enter the third millennium.

This is the conventional view which has been backed by the Library of Congress and the National Bureau of Stands and Technology. Similarly, the Royal Greenwich Observatory in Cambridge, England has decreed that the first day of the third millennium falls on