3rd millennium
current millennium, spanning the years 2001 to 3000
The 3rd millennium started on January 1, 2001 and will end on December 31, 3000.
| Millennia: | 2nd millennium · 3rd millennium · 4th millennium |
| Centuries: | 21st century · 22nd century · 23rd century · 24th century · 25th century · 26th century · 27th century · 28th century · 29th century · 30th century |
EventsEdit
- By 2070, 1 to 3 billion people could be living in extreme heat because of climate change.[1][2][3]
- 2285: On March 22, Easter will occur on its earliest possible date for the first time since the year 1818.
- 2400: The first century leap year since 2000.
- 2800: The first century leap year since 2400.
ReferencesEdit
- ↑ "Climate change: More than 3bn could live in extreme heat by 2070". BBC News. 5 May 2020. Retrieved 6 May 2020.
- ↑ Lustgarten, Abrahm (23 July 2020). "The Great Climate Migration Has Begun". The New York Times. Retrieved 6 October 2020.
- ↑ Xu, Chi; Kohler, Timothy A.; Lenton, Timothy M.; Svenning, Jens-Christian; Scheffer, Marten (26 May 2020). "Future of the human climate niche". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117 (21): 11350–11355. doi:10.1073/pnas.1910114117. ISSN 0027-8424. PMC 7260949. PMID 32366654.
