Millennium (disambiguation)
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A millennium
is a period of 1,000 years.
Millennium may also refer to:
Millennium
A millennium is a period of time equal to one thousand years —from the Latin phrase , thousand, and , year—often but not necessarily related numerically to a particular dating system....
is a period of 1,000 years.
Millennium may also refer to:
Religion
- MillennialismMillennialismMillennialism , or chiliasm in Greek, is a belief held by some Christian denominations that there will be a Golden Age or Paradise on Earth in which "Christ will reign" for 1000 years prior to the final judgment and future eternal state...
, describing the 1000-year reign of Christ - MillenarianismMillenarianismMillenarianism is the belief by a religious, social, or political group or movement in a coming major transformation of society, after which all things will be changed, based on a one-thousand-year cycle. The term is more generically used to refer to any belief centered around 1000 year intervals...
, the belief by a group in a coming major transformation of society after which all things will be changed - Great JubileeGreat JubileeThe Great Jubilee in 2000 was a major event in the Roman Catholic Church, held from December 24, 1999 to January 6, 2001. Like other previous Jubilee years, it was a celebration of the mercy of God and forgiveness of sins...
, the celebration of the year 2000 in the Roman Catholic Church
Transportation
- Millennium (ship)Millennium (ship)GTS Millennium is the flagship of the Millennium Class of cruise ships, operated by the Celebrity Cruises line. Her sister ships are Constellation, Infinity, and Summit.She was built at Chantiers de l'Atlantique in St. Nazaire, France...
, a cruise ship - Millennium trainMillennium trainThe CityRail Millennium or M set is a class of electric multiple unit operated by CityRail in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.It is one of CityRail's newest members of the fleet and was the first "4th generation train" on the network. The fourth generation trains were put into service from July...
, an electric train run by CityRail in Sydney
Software
- Year 2000 problemYear 2000 problemThe Year 2000 problem was a problem for both digital and non-digital documentation and data storage situations which resulted from the practice of abbreviating a four-digit year to two digits.In computer programs, the practice of representing the year with two...
also known as the millennium bug, also known as Y2K - Windows MeWindows MeWindows Millennium Edition, or Windows Me , is a graphical operating system released on September 14, 2000 by Microsoft, and was the last operating system released in the Windows 9x series. Support for Windows Me ended on July 11, 2006....
, Windows Millennium Edition, an operating system - Millennium, an integrated library system software package published by Innovative Interfaces, Inc.
Comics
- Millennium (comics)Millennium (comics)"Millennium" was a comic book crossover story line that ran through an eight-issue, self-titled, limited series and various other titles cover dated January and February 1988 by DC Comics. The limited series was published weekly, which was a departure for an American series...
, a series produced by DC Comics - Millennium PublicationsMillennium PublicationsMillennium Productions was an American independent comic book publishing company founded by Mark Ellis, Melissa Martin and Paul Davis. Initially known as a publisher of licensed properties, Millennium adapted works by Arthur Conan Doyle, Lester Dent, Frank Frazetta, Robert E. Howard, Harlan...
, a defunct comic book publisher - Millennium, Vampire Nazi regiment in the HellsingHellsingis a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Kouta Hirano. It first premiered in Young King Ours in 1997 and ended in September 2008. The individual chapters are collected and published in tankōbon volumes by Shōnen Gahosha. As of March 2009 all chapters have been released in 10 volumes in...
comic series
Music
- Millennium (Backstreet Boys album)Millennium (Backstreet Boys album)Millennium is the third album by American boyband Backstreet Boys. It was a highly anticipated follow-up to both their United States debut album, and their second internationally released album. It was their first album to be released in both the U.S...
, a 1999 album by The Backstreet Boys - The MillenniumThe MillenniumThe Millennium was an American super group based in California, who were conceived by Curt Boettcher. The group consisted of psychedelic rock musicians, and they incorporated sunshine pop harmonies....
, a 1960s band led by Curt Boettcher - Millennium (Earth, Wind & Fire album)Millennium (Earth, Wind & Fire album)Millennium is an album by African-American funk music group Earth, Wind & Fire released in 1993 for their return to Warner Bros. Records after an eleven-year absence from that label. However, due to the poor sales, Warner Bros...
, a 1993 album by Earth, Wind & FireEarth, Wind & FireEarth, Wind & Fire is an American soul and R&B band formed in Chicago, Illinois, in 1969 by Verdine and Maurice White. Also known as EWF, the band has won six Grammy Awards and four American Music Awards. They have been inducted into both the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Vocal Group Hall of... - Millennium (Front Line Assembly album)Millennium (Front Line Assembly album)-Personnel:*Bill Leeb – programming, vocals*Rhys Fulber – programming*Devin Townsend – guitars *Don Harrison – guitars *Che the Minister of Defense – vocals...
, a 1994 album by Front Line Assembly- "Millennium" (Front Line Assembly song)Millennium (Front Line Assembly song)Millennium is a maxi single off the studio album Millennium by the Industrial band Front Line Assembly. This album was released August 23, 1994 on the Roadrunner Records label.- Track listing :All tracks by Front Line Assembly-Personnel:...
, a single from the album
- "Millennium" (Front Line Assembly song)
- "Millennium", 1994 song by Killing Joke from the album PandemoniumPandemonium (Killing Joke album)Pandemonium is the tenth studio album by Killing Joke released in June, 1994, under the Zoo label.This album marked Killing Joke's return after a four year long hiatus, the longest the band has taken since it was initially founded...
- "Millennium" (song)Millennium (song)"Millennium" is a song by Robbie Williams, released as the first single from his second album, I've Been Expecting You. The song was released in 1998....
, a 1998 song by Robbie Williams from the album I've Been Expecting You - Millennium RecordsMillennium RecordsMillennium Records originally started at 3 West 57th Street New York in 1977, and was distributed by Neil Bogart's Casablanca label. The R&B group Brooklyn Dreams. Their artist was likely electronic music pioneer Meco, whose disco cover of John Williams "Star Wars/Cantina Band" cues from Star Wars...
, a record label - Millennium (band)Millennium (band)Millennium is an Indian metal band from Bangalore. The band was formed in 1988 as one of the first metal bands.-History:The band was created during 1988 with a line-up comprising lead vocalist Verhnon Ibrahim, guitarists Rio and Cecil, bass player Stanley with Roberto on the drums. Roberto left in...
, a heavy metal band from Bangalore, India
Books
- Millennium, a 1976 novel in the Chet Kinsman series by Ben BovaBen BovaBenjamin William Bova is an American science-fiction author and editor. He is the recipient of six Hugo Awards for Best Professional Editor for his work at Analog Science Fiction in the 1970's.-Personal life:...
- Millennium (novel)Millennium (novel)Millennium is a 1983 science fiction novel by John Varley. Varley later turned this novel into the script for the 1989 film Millennium, both of which are based on Varley's short story "Air Raid", which was published in 1977. It was nominated for the Philip K...
, a 1983 science fiction novel by John Varley - Millennium, a 1995 novel by Jack Anderson
- "Millennium series", a series of three novels by Stieg LarssonStieg LarssonKarl Stig-Erland Larsson , who wrote professionally as Stieg Larsson, was a Swedish journalist and writer, born in Skelleftehamn outside Skellefteå. He is best known for writing the "Millennium series" of crime novels, which were published posthumously...
, also made into films - Millennium: Tribal Wisdom and the Modern WorldMillennium: Tribal Wisdom and the Modern WorldMillennium: Tribal Wisdom and the Modern World is a video by Harvard anthropologist David Maybury-Lewis.This refers to a series of 10 VHS videos of 60 minutes each...
, a book by anthropologist David Maybury-Lewis, a companion to the PBS television series
Non-Fiction
- Millennium: A History of Our Last Thousand Years, a 1995 book by Felipe Fernández-ArmestoFelipe Fernández-ArmestoFelipe Fernández-Armesto is a British historian and author of several popular works of history.He was born in London, his father was the Spanish journalist Felipe Fernández Armesto and his mother was Betty Millan de Fernandez-Armesto, a British-born journalist and co-founder and editor of The...
- Millennium: The End of the World and the Forging of Christendom, a 2008 book by Tom HollandTom Holland (author)-Biography:Holland was born near Oxford and brought up in the village of Broadchalke near Salisbury, England. His younger brother is the historian and novelist James Holland...
Television and film
- Millennium (film)Millennium (film)Millennium is a 1989 film directed by Michael Anderson and starring Kris Kristofferson, Cheryl Ladd, Robert Joy, Brent Carver, Al Waxman and Daniel J. Travanti. The original music score was composed by Eric N. Robertson...
, a 1989 film based on the novel by John Varley - Millennium (TV series)Millennium (TV series)Millennium is an American television series created by Chris Carter, creator of The X-Files. Millennium aired on the Fox Network from 1996 to 1999. The series was filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia, though most episodes were ostensibly set in or around Seattle, Washington...
, a 1996 television series by The X-Files creator Chris Carter - Millennium (Swedish miniseries)Millennium (Swedish miniseries)Millennium is a Swedish six-part television series that aired in 2010, which was based on the film trilogy of Stieg Larsson's Millennium series. The series was produced by Yellow Bird in cooperation with several production companies, including SVT, Nordisk Film and Film i Väst. Unlike the films,...
, a 2010 Swedish miniseries based on the film adaptations of Stieg LarssonStieg LarssonKarl Stig-Erland Larsson , who wrote professionally as Stieg Larsson, was a Swedish journalist and writer, born in Skelleftehamn outside Skellefteå. He is best known for writing the "Millennium series" of crime novels, which were published posthumously...
's "Millennium series" - "The Millennium" (Seinfeld episode), a 1997 episode from the eighth season
- "Millennium" (The X-Files episode)Millennium (The X-Files)"Millennium" is the fourth episode of the seventh season of The X-Files. It is a crossover with the show Millennium. It is also the episode in which Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully share their first kiss of the series after developing a relationship throughout the previous six seasons.- Plot :In...
, a 1999 episode from the seventh season - Millennium: Tribal Wisdom and the Modern WorldMillennium: Tribal Wisdom and the Modern WorldMillennium: Tribal Wisdom and the Modern World is a video by Harvard anthropologist David Maybury-Lewis.This refers to a series of 10 VHS videos of 60 minutes each...
, (Documentary Series) by anthropologist David Maybury-Lewis aired on PBS in 1992 - Millennium EntertainmentMillennium EntertainmentLed by CEO Bill Lee, Millennium Entertainment is a leading independent supplier that acquires and distributes feature films, television series and specialty programming...
, an American independent film distributor
Fiction
- Millennium FalconMillennium FalconThe Millennium Falcon is a spacecraft in the Star Wars universe commanded by smuggler Han Solo and his Wookiee first mate, Chewbacca...
, a fictional starship from the Star Wars films - Millennium Items, magical relics in the anime and manga series Yu-Gi-Oh!
Computer Games
- Millennium 2.2Millennium 2.2Millennium 2.2 is a resource management computer game by Ian Bird, released in 1989 for Atari ST, Amiga and DOS. The DOS version of the game was released as Millennium: Return to Earth...
, a resource management game for Atari ST, Amiga and the PC - Millennia: Altered DestiniesMillennia: Altered DestiniesMillennia: Altered Destinies is a PC game created by Take 2 Interactive in 1995. It casts the player as a human freighter captain who finds himself transported to an alien ship. There, an alien calling himself a Hood gives the player a mission to save the Echelon galaxy which is about to be taken...
, a PC game created by Take 2 Interactive in 1995
Companies, countries and other organizations
- Millennium BCP, a private bank in Portugal
- Millennium ChemicalsMillennium ChemicalsMillennium Inorganic Chemicals is a Hunt Valley, MD based chemical company.The business was established in 1985. It was a subsidiary of British conglomerate Hanson plc at one time, but was demerged on 1 October 1996, when it became an independent listed company...
, a subsidiary of Lyondell Chemical Company - Millennium InteractiveMillennium InteractiveMillennium Interactive was a Cambridge-based computer games developer responsible for titles such as Rome: Pathway to Power, The Adventures of Robin Hood, James Pond, Defcon 5, Deadline and most notably, Creatures. Another notable title is Strike II, a 3-D air combat science fiction game.In July...
Ltd, a former games company based in Cambridge, England - The Millennium Development GoalsMillennium Development GoalsThe Millennium Development Goals are eight international development goals that all 193 United Nations member states and at least 23 international organizations have agreed to achieve by the year 2015...
, a compact among nations to end human poverty - Millennium KidsMillennium KidsMillennium Kids is an international youth empowerment environmental organization.Millennium Kids HQ - Perth Western Australia , is anot-for-profit organisation headquartered in Perth, Western Australia, began in 1996 after a small group of Western Australian students attended the United Nations...
, an international youth empowerment environmental organization - Millennium (Hellsing)Millennium (Hellsing)Millennium is a fictional Nazi organization from the manga series Hellsing by Kouta Hirano, they serve as the primary antagonists in the series. Its name is a reference to the "Thousand Year Reich" which Adolf Hitler sought to establish during World War II...
, a fictional group of Nazis from the manga series Hellsing - Millennium, an Australian company that specializes in the production of medieval and fantasy items, including weaponry
- Millennium PicturesMillennium PicturesMillennium Pictures Pty Limited is a film and media production company based in Rosewood, NSW, Australia and run by Posie Graeme-Evans and her husband.-Works:* The Miraculous Mellops * Mirror, Mirror * McLeod's Daughters...
, an Australian production company - Millennium (publisher), an imprint of UK publisher Orion Books
- White House Millennium CouncilWhite House Millennium CouncilThe White House Millennium Council was an American organization established by Executive Order 13072 in 1998 by President Bill Clinton to commemorate the millennium...
(United States) - Millennium PharmaceuticalsMillennium PharmaceuticalsMillennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc., The Takeda Oncology Company is a biopharmaceutical company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The Company markets Velcade for injection, a cancer product, and has a growing clinical development pipeline of product candidates...
, a biopharmaceutical company in Cambridge, MA - Millennium & Copthorne HotelsMillennium & Copthorne HotelsMillennium & Copthorne Hotels plc is a leading British-based hotel business. Including the pipeline, the company owns or operates over 120 hotels in 19 countries around the world...
, a global hospitality company - Millennium GroupMillennium GroupThe Millennium Group is a fictional secret society and "criminal investigative consulting firm" featured in the television series Millennium...
, a fictional centuries old secret society and criminal investigative consulting firm in the MillenniumMillennium (TV series)Millennium is an American television series created by Chris Carter, creator of The X-Files. Millennium aired on the Fox Network from 1996 to 1999. The series was filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia, though most episodes were ostensibly set in or around Seattle, Washington...
television series
Places
- Millennium High School (disambiguation), several US high schools
- Tau Boötis AbTau Boötis AbTau Boötis b, occasionally referred to as Tau Boötis Ab, is an extrasolar planet approximately 50 light-years away around the primary star of the Tau Boötis system in the constellation of Boötes. Announced in 1996 by Geoffrey Marcy and R. Paul Butler, Tau Boötis was one of the first stars...
, dubbed the "Millennium Planet" - "Millennium ForceMillennium ForceMillennium Force is a steel roller coaster built by Intamin located at Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio, United States. It is the fourteenth roller coaster built at the park since the Blue Streak opened in 1964. Standing 310 feet tall at its highest point, the coaster overlooks Lake Erie.On a clear...
," a roller coaster in the Cedar Point Park - Millennium StadiumMillennium StadiumThe Millennium Stadium is the national stadium of Wales, located in the capital, Cardiff. It is the home of the Wales national rugby union team and also frequently stages games of the Wales national football team, but is also host to many other large scale events, such as the Super Special Stage...
in Cardiff, Wales, UK - Millennium BridgeMillennium BridgeSeveral bridges are known as the Millennium Bridge:* in the United Kingdom:** Gateshead Millennium Bridge** Lune Millennium Bridge, in Lancaster, England** Millennium Bridge in Glasgow** Millennium Bridge in London...
, several bridges all over the world
Events
- Millennium CelebrationMillennium CelebrationThe Millennium Celebration was a celebration at the Walt Disney World Resort of the changing of the millennium. The celebration ran from October 1, 1999 to January 1, 2001. The celebration was primarily based at Epcot, with its emphasis on human potential and the possibilities of the future...
, a celebration at Walt Disney World for the year 2000 - The Millennium SummitMillennium SummitThe Millennium Summit was a meeting among many world leaders lasting three days from 6 September to 8 September 2000 at the United Nations headquarters in New York City. Its purpose was to discuss the role of the United Nations at the turn of the 21st century. At this meeting, world leaders...
, a meeting among several leaders from September 6 to September 8 2000 - Operation Millennium, the first air raid in the Bombing of Cologne in World War IIBombing of Cologne in World War IIThe City of Cologne was bombed in 262 separate air raids by the Allies during World War II, including 31 times by the Royal Air Force . Air raid alarms went off in the winter/spring of 1940 as enemy bombers passed overhead. However, the first actual bombing took place on 12 May 1940...
- Millennium MagicMagic WeekendThe Magic Weekend, previously Millennium Magic, is a concept by the Rugby Football League to stage an entire round of Super League matches in prestigious and exciting cities to showcase the sport....
, a UK Rugby League event - Millennium '73Millennium '73Millennium '73 was a three-day festival held on November 8–10, 1973 at the Astrodome in Houston, Texas, United States, by the Divine Light Mission . It featured Prem Rawat, then known as Guru Maharaj Ji, a 15-year-old guru and the leader of a fast-growing new religious movement...
, a religious festival held by the Divine Light Mission at Astrodome featuring Guru Maharaj Ji
Prizes
- The 7 Millennium Prize ProblemsMillennium Prize ProblemsThe Millennium Prize Problems are seven problems in mathematics that were stated by the Clay Mathematics Institute in 2000. As of September 2011, six of the problems remain unsolved. A correct solution to any of the problems results in a US$1,000,000 prize being awarded by the institute...
- Millennium Technology PrizeMillennium Technology PrizeThe Millennium Technology Prize is the largest technology prize in the world. It is awarded once every two years by Technology Academy Finland, an independent fund established by Finnish industry and the Finnish state in partnership. The prize is presented by the President of Finland...
, Finland's recognition for innovators that aim to improve quality of life and raise its profile as a high-tech country
Other
- Millennium stampMillennium StampA Millennium stamp is a postage stamp issued by a postal administration commemorating a millennium associated with that country's history but several countries issued stamps for the beginning of the 3rd millennium in same cases depicting some of their country's achievements over the preceding...
, a postage stamp issued to celebrate the beginning of the 3rd millennium, or to commemorate a millennium associated with a country's history - New Millennium programNew Millennium programNew Millennium Program is a NASA project with focus on engineering validation of new technologies for space applications. Funding for the program was eliminated from the FY2009 budget by the 110th United States Congress, effectively leading to its cancellation.The spacecraft in the New Millennium...
, a NASA program to test new technologies - Millennium simulationMillennium simulationThe Millennium Run, or Millennium Simulation referring to its size, was a computer N-body simulation used to investigate how matter in the Universe evolved over time...
, an astrophysical simulation - Millennium, an unusually strong beer made by Samuel Adams
- Millennium Run, a simulation created to investigate how the Universe evolved over time
- Millennium (typeface), a typefaceTypefaceIn typography, a typeface is the artistic representation or interpretation of characters; it is the way the type looks. Each type is designed and there are thousands of different typefaces in existence, with new ones being developed constantly....
- Millennium Wind Farm, a wind farm near GlenmoristonGlenmoristonGlenmoriston or Glen Moriston is a river glen in the Scottish Highlands, that runs from Loch Ness, at the village of Invermoriston, westwards to Loch Cluanie, where it meets with Glen Shiel. The A887 and A87 roads pass through Glenmoriston....
in ScotlandScotlandScotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...
See also
- Millennium TowerMillennium TowerMillennium Tower may refer to:* Millennium Tower , Nigeria* Millennium Tower , Netherlands* Millennium Tower , Serbia* Millennium Tower , Slovakia* Millennium Tower , United Arab Emirates...
, the name of a number of buildings around the world - Millennium Park (disambiguation)Millennium Park (disambiguation)Millennium Park is a park in Chicago, Illinois.Millennium Park may also refer to:* Millennium Park , Canada* Millennium Park , India* Millennium Park , Nigeria...
, a few parks in North America - Millennium Bank (disambiguation)