Wikipedia: 21st century

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Centuries: Year in Review 21st Century (20th century - 21st century - 22nd century)

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20th century - 21st century - 22nd century

Decades: 2000s 2010s? 2020s? 2030s? 2040s? 2050s? 2060s? 2070s? 2080s? 2090s?

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Overly zealous adherents to the "formal" understanding are referred to as Pedants, as illustrated below in a rather humourous article by Douglas Adams (brilliant author of the 5-part trilogy The Hitch Hikers Guide To The Galaxy as well as various other notable contributions to modern culture, may he rest in peace).

(source: http://www.douglasadams.com/dna/pedants.html )

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.

*The flying car will be the common means of transportation in the 21st century. This was the vision of the 1950s.

decades, 2000s, 2010s?, 2020s?

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Centuries: Year in Review 21st Century (20th century - 21st century - 22nd century)

Decades: 2000s 2010s? 2020s? 2030s? 2040s? 2050s? 2060s? 2070s? 2080s? 2090s?

Formally the twenty-first century comprises the years 2001-2100. However, common usage refers to this "millennium" as starting January 1st, 2000 - therefore most would consider the 21st century as spanning 2000-2099.

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