- 4th millennium
The fourth millennium is a period of time that will begin on
January 1 ,3001 , and will end onDecember 31 ,4000 , of the Gregorian calendar.Astronomical events
The
Earth will experience 2,366solar eclipse s.Due to the precession of the equinoxes, γ Cephei will be the
pole star between 3000 and 5200*
December 18 , 3089:Transit of Venus
*July 22 , 3126: Venus occultsRegulus http://www.marco-peuschel.de/Regulusbedeckungen%20durch%20die%20gro%DFen%20Planeten.pdf
*October 21 , 3187: Venus occults Regulus again
*October 8 , 3230: Venus occultsSpica
*3412: Expected return ofComet McNaught-Russell
*October 25 , 3414: Venus occults Regulus
*3711/12: multi-triple conjunction betweenJupiter , Saturn,Uranus and Neptune
*3811: The expected return ofComet Donati .
*August 27 , 3982: Mercury occults Regulus.Fictional events
31st century
*The novel "" is largely set in 3001 and the years following.
*The Foxanimated sitcom , "Futurama " is set largely in the 4th millennium. The series' start was actually set on New Years' Eve, 1999, then skipped forward to New Years' Eve, 2999. The series remained 1000 years ahead of modern time, except for instances of flashbacks and time travel.
*Ulysses incurs the wrath of the Gods of Olympus by slaying the Giant Cyclops ("Ulysses 31 ")
*Thestop-motion film "Live Freaky! Die Freaky! " is set in 3069.
*The beginning of the novel "Venus on the Half-Shell " is set in 3069.
*The events of "Titan AE " take place.
*The events of the anime series "Trinity Blood " take place in the latter half of this century.
*On one episode of the Television show "Courage the Cowardly Dog ", Courage, Eustace and Muriel, travel to the date April 15, 3001. In this time period, the world was ruled by bananas. the episode was titled "1000 Years of Courage "
*"You'll never survive 3005" as said in the song "3005" by "Scars On Broadway ".32nd century
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Samuel R. Delany 's novel "Nova" is set in the 32nd century.
* The "current events" of the ' expansion to "BattleTech s timeline occur in the thirty-second century, following the collapse of the HPG network in3132 .33rd century
*Both the "Sonic the Hedgehog" comic book and its Saturday morning cartoon in the
United States take place in the 33rd Century, beginning around the year 3235. This is conjectured because Sonic is established as age 16 in the beginning; he was five years old in 3224 when the main enemy, Dr. Robotnik, is established in the cartoon as having seized control of the planet Mobius. In the comic version, in issue 124, they specifically say that Mobius was once, indeed,Earth .
*Bucky O'Hare lives and operates in the 33rd century.36th century
*Around 3505 the second wave of human expansion from
Earth into the rest of thegalaxy will begin, also according toAsimov .
* "In the year 3535 . . .Everything you think, do and say is in the pill you took today," according to theZager and Evans song, "In the Year 2525 ."38th century
*In the year 3781, according to Walter Miller Jr.'s "
A Canticle for Leibowitz " a second nuclear holocaust destroys the Earth.
*Nostradamus prophecies would extend to the year 3797.
*3798 is the year in whichMichael Wang 's "The Cosmos" mostly takes place.40th century
*When calculating the year in the game with the beginning of NC, in the game "
EV Nova ", the year is 3955 (It could be possible that the date of the game was influenced by the "Planet of the Apes " film series).
*Tribes 2 , while mainly set in 3941, its training missions take place from 3944 to 3950.
*The film "Planet of the Apes" is set in the year 3978, while its first sequel, "Beneath the Planet of the Apes ", is set in the year 3955. It is possible that the first film occurs in analternate timeline to the subsequent four.
*In theChallenge of the Superfriends episode "Conquers of the Future", theLegion of Doom travels forward in time from the 20th century to the year 3984. Before being defeated by the Superfriends, the Legion of Doom is able to conquer not onlyEarth , but the entireMilky Way Galaxy as well.
*The year 4000 is the time for the classic comic book "Magnus, Robot Fighter " created byRuss Manning . In this series, all of North America has become a single great city named North Am, with buildings commonly reaching a mile (1.6 km) in height.
*The events in the cartoon series "Thundarr the Barbarian " take place in the year 3994.
*In theDoctor Who series, theDalek s conspire to conquer theSolar System in the year 4000.ee also
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31st century References
External links
* [http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/SEcatmax/SE3001-4000MaxT.html NASA: Eclipses in the fourth Millennium]
* [http://www.marco-peuschel.de/Regulusbedeckungen%20durch%20die%20gro%DFen%20Planeten.pdf Occultations of Regulus by planets]
* [http://www.marco-peuschel.de/merkurvenushellesterne.html Occultations of bright stars by inner planets]
* [http://www.marco-peuschel.de/dreifachkonjunktionen.htm Triple planetary conjunctions]
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