As the 21st century continues, we will begin to celebrate the 2000th anniversary of the events that had the AD date.
Of course, we already had many 2,000-year-old anniversaries of BC events. (and the 2500th, for that matter, as when, in 1971, the Shah of Iran noted the alleged creation of the Persian Empire in 530 BC). But these anniversaries, based on intervals dividing the BC / AD division, are less obvious, since the numbers do not reflect the same. For example, 1970 AD does not "rhyme" from 31 BC since 2009 rhymes from 9 AD There is also an additional annoying that there was no year 0, which means that (for example) in the middle of the summer of the 1st year was one, not two years after the middle of the summer of 1 BC, so to calculate the separation between two dates, one BC and another AD, after adding the numbers, you must remember to subtract 1 from the total.
However, we are currently moving to the real “+2000” territory, when simply adding or subtracting 2000 will reflect the imagination back and forth between two historical dates.
Perhaps the first major dramatic of these is the bimillion anniversary of the catastrophe, which befell three Roman legions in the Teutoburg Forest in Lower Saxony, Germany, 9 years of our era. Captured in the woods by a union of tribesmen under the leadership of Herman, the Romans under the publication of Quinctilius within three days Varus, faced with defeat, killed himself; the legions of the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth legions were destroyed; and Germany, because of this decisive event, remained outside the Roman Empire.
2014 will be an exceptional year for anniversaries. In addition to the 100th anniversary of the beginning of the Great War, the bicentenary of the burning of Washington, the thirteenth anniversary of the death of Queen Anne and the end of the Stewart period and the 700th anniversary of the Battle of Bannockburn, we will knock over thousands of carpet - both the binomial year of the death of Emperor Augustus and the accession of Tiberius (14 para.), at this moment Tacitus begins his Annals and the millennium of the Battle of Clontarf (1014), in which Brian Bor, despite the greatest king of Ireland, was killed - and saved by revenge taken on Bulgar by the Byzantine Emperor, Basil the Second, also in 1014.
