Millennia or millennium

A millennium (plural: millenniums or millennia) is a measure of time. 1 millennium spans a period of 1000 years.

What is 100,000 years called

A millennium can refer to any period of 1000 years. In the Gregorian calendar, the most widely used calendar in the world, the first millennium started in the year 1 and ended in the year 1000. The second millennium started in the year 1001 and ended in the year 2000.

Currently, based on the Gregorian calendar, we are in the 3rd millennium, which will last long past the end of our lives up until the year 3000.

A millennium is a larger span of time than people can really relate to.

Below are some conversions of a millennium to other commonly used measurements of time.

• 1 millennium = 10 centuries
• 1 millennium = 12,000 months
• 1 millennium = 365,250 days
• 1 millennium = 8,766,000 hours
• 1 millennium = 525,960,000 minutes