2000

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2000 () was a leap year beginning on Saturday in the Gregorian calendar. It was also the number 2000 anno Domini or the designation of Christian Era, in addition to the last year of the last decade of the, the hundredth and last year of the, the thousandth and last of the second millennium and the first year of the decade of the 2000.

According to the Gregorian calendar, these distinctions fall until 2001, because it was said retroactively that it began with the year 1 d. C. Since the Gregorian calendar does not have the year zero, its first millennium covered from the years 1 to 1000 even and its second millennium from the years 1001 to 2000. (See century and millennium for more information.)

The year 2000 sometimes abreast as "Y2K" (the "Y" means "year" - of the English year - and the "K" means "kilo," that is "thousand"). The year 2000 was the theme of the 2000 Problem, as they feared that computers would not change from 1999 to 2000 correctly. However, by the end of 1999, many companies had already become new or improved existing software. Some even obtained the Y2K certification. As a result of a massive effort, relatively few problems occurred.

The year 2000 was declared:

International Year of a Culture for Peace.
World Year of Mathematics.
Year of the Dragon, according to the Chinese horoscope
For the Catholic Church, great Jubilee for the bimillennial of the birth of Jesus Christ (about 4 BC).

Events

January
1 January:
The "catastrophic" failures of the Y2K (effect 2000) that had been predicted on computers around the world by this date are not manifested.
In the Canadian province of Quebec, there is a 5.2 earthquake that causes minor damage.
January 10: American AOL (America On-Line) announces an agreement to buy Time Warner for $162 billion.
13 January:
Pope John Paul II accepts the resignation of José María Setién, Bishop of San Sebastián (Spain).
In Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Mexican singer Gloria Trevi is arrested along with her chorus Mary Bosques and producer Sergio Andrade accused of abduction, kidnapping and rape of minors, and later exonerated.
14 January:
A United Nations court sentenced five Catholic Croats to more than 25 years in prison for killing more than 100 Muslims in a Bosnian village in 1993.
In Guatemala, Alfonso Portillo takes over the presidency.
January 15: An earthquake of 5.9 shakes the Chinese province of Yunnan killing 7 people and causing much destruction.
January 19: total eclipse of Luna, visible on the American continent. This phenomenon presented 77 minutes of whole, easily observed.
21 January: in Ecuador, a popular revolt - led by a group of colonels and indigenous people under the command of Lucio Gutiérrez and Antonio Vargas - is taking place in the midst of a profound economic and social crisis. Gob's Triumvirate