Significant Events of the Millennium
  
   
    | 1 January 1000 | Almost everyone celebrates the beginning of the second Millennium. | 
  1 January 1001 | Pedants celebrate the beginning of the second Millennium. 
 
 | 1 January 1100 | Almost everyone celebrates the beginning of the twelfth century. | 1 January 1101 | Pedants celebrate the beginning of the twelfth century. 
 
 | 1 January 1200 | Almost everyone celebrates the beginning of the thirteenth century. | 1 January 1201 | Pedants celebrate the beginning of the thirteenth century. 
 
 | 1 January 1300 | Almost everyone celebrates the beginning of the fourteenth century. | 1 January 1301 | Pedants celebrate the beginning of the fourteenth century. 
 
 | 10 June 1381 | The Pedants' Revolt reaches London. (Not the Pedants' Revolt, 
    the Peasants' Revolt. 
    (sgd.) A Pedant. And kindly close the brackets.) (Thank you.) 
 
 | 1 January 1400 | Almost everyone celebrates the beginning of the fifteenth century. | 1 January 1401 | Pedants celebrate the beginning of the fifteenth century. 
 
 | 1 January 1500 | Almost everyone celebrates the beginning of the sixteenth century. | 1 January 1501 | Pedants celebrate the beginning of the sixteenth century. 
 
 | 1 January 1600 | Almost everyone celebrates the beginning of the seventeenth century. | 1 January 1601 | People begin to get really fed up with pedants. 
 
 | 1 January 1700 | Almost everyone celebrates the beginning of the eighteenth century. | 1 January 1701 | A few pedants begin to notice that pedants tend not to have very 
    good celebrations. 
 
 | 1 January 1800 | Almost everyone celebrates the beginning of the nineteenth century. 
    A splinter group of ex-pedants turn up and get very drunk. | 1 January 1801 | The rest of the pedants celebrate the beginning of the nineteenth 
    century. 
 
 | 1 January 1900 | Almost everyone celebrates the beginning of the twentieth century. 
    No pedants allowed. | 1 January 1901 | Pedants hold a Morris dancing festival. 
 
 | 24 November 1996 | The Digital Village web site goes online: the third Millennium 
    starts early and catches everybody by surprise. 
 
 | 1 January 2000 | Anybody who even mentions the Millennium gets garrotted. | 1 January 2001 | Massacre of the Pedants. |