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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;paddyman98, post: 2132637, member: 44615&quot;]That&#039;s your opinion and I respect it. But it depends which calendar is used - The short answer is:</p><p><br /></p><p>If you use the <b>Gregorian Calendar</b> and start the first millennium with the year 1 AD then the third millennium began with the year 2001 AD. But if you use the <b> Common Era Calendar</b>, in which years are numbered -2, -1, 0, 1, 2, ..., and you begin the first millennium with the year 0 CE then the third millennium began with the year 2000 CE. You have a choice. And if you opt for the Common Era Calendar you no longer have to put up with the smug assertion that &quot;there was no year zero (so the new millennium began in 2001)&quot;. There was no year zero when Pope Gregory XIII introduced the Gregorian Calendar in the 16th Century but there certainly is one now (and in the future), and the new millennium in the Common Era Calendar began in 2000 CE<b> <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie6" alt=":cool:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></b>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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