Centuries:
Year in Review 21st Century
20th century - 21st century - 22nd century
Decades: 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s - 2000s - 2010s? 2020s? 2030s? 2040s? 2050s?
Years: 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 - 2004 - 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
Events:
- expected enlargement of the European Union to include admission of further 12 member-states: Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Romania, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Hungary, Malta and Cyprus;
- Summer Olympic Games in Athens
- Solar transits of the planet Venus begin for the first time since 1882, to end in 2012?.
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