pedants celebrating the millenium

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 turns 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.


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