4th millennium

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Millennia:

3rd millennium - 4th millennium - 5th millennium

The fourth millennium is a period of time which will begin on 1 January 3001 and will end on 31 December 4000.

Contents 1 Astronomical events 2 Fictional events 2.1 31st century 2.2 32nd century 2.3 33rd century 2.4 35th century 2.5 36th century 2.6 38th century 2.7 40th century 3 See also 4 References

[edit] Astronomical events

The Earth will experience 2,366 solar eclipses.

• December 18, 3089: Transit of Venus
• July 22, 3126: Venus occults Regulus [1]
• Wednesday, October 21, 3187: Venus occults Regulus again
• October 8, 3230: Venus occults Spica
• October 25, 3414: Venus occults Regulus
• 3711/12: multi-triple conjunction between Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune
• August 27, 3982: Mercury occults Regulus

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[edit] Fictional events

[edit] 31st century

Main article: 31st century

• The novel 3001: The Final Odyssey is largely carried out in 3001 and the years following.
• The Fox animated sitcom, Futurama is set largely in the 4th millennium. The series' start was actually set on New Years' Eve, 2999, incorrectly attributed as the eve of the 31st century. The series remained 1000 years ahead of modern time.
• According to the song "What Would Brian Boitano Do?" from the movie "South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut", Brian Boitano travels through time to the year 3010, and fights the evil robot king to save the human race again.
• Ulysses incurs the wrath of the Gods of Olympus by slaying the Giant Cyclops (Ulysses 31)
• The album Deltron 3030 takes place. The album is by the hip hop super group Deltron 3030, composed primarily of producer Dan the Automator, rapper Del Tha Funkee Homosapien and DJ Kid Koala.

[edit] 32nd century

• Around the year 3200, according to the future in the novels of Isaac Asimov, the planet Solaria will be settled from Nexon. Around the same time, the scientist Han Fastolfe will create the android R. Daneel Olivaw, future Eminence Grise of the Galaxy.
• Samuel R. Delany's novel Nova is set in the 32nd century.
• The "current events" of the MechWarrior: Dark Age expansion to BattleTech's timeline occur in the thirty-second century, following the collapse of the HPG network in 3132.

According to the song "Year 3000" from the "Jonas Brothers" they meet their "great-great-great grandaughers" by means of a "flux capacitor."

[edit] 33rd century

• Both Sonic the Hedgehog Archie Comic and 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.

[edit] 35th century

• Around the year 3500, again according to Isaac Asimov's Robot Series, R. Daneel Olivaw will meet Elijah Baley and assist him in solving a homicide - events that will have long-lasting consequences.

[edit] 36th century

• Around 3505 the second wave of human expansion from Earth into the rest of the Galaxy will begin, also according to Asimov.
• In the year 3535, according to Zager and Evans' song "In the Year 2525 (Exordium and Terminus)", all of one's thoughts, words and actions will be pre-programmed in a daily pill.

[edit] 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. It is not clear whether this is the end of the world.
• 3798 is the year in which Michael Wang's "The Cosmos" mostly takes place.

[edit] 40th century

• The year 3950 is the predicted year that the huge garbage ball that the people in the show Futurama used to knock the first giant garbage ball from the year 2052 into the sun will return.
• When calculating the year in the game with the beginning of NC, In the game EV Nova, the year is 3955 AD (It could be possible that the date of the game was influenced by the Planet of the Apes Film series).
• The film Planet of the Apes is set in 3978 CE, 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 an alternate timeline to the subsequent four.
• The year 4000 is the time for the classic comic book Magnus, Robot Fighter created by Russ 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 kilometers) in height.
• The events in the cartoon series Thundarr the Barbarian take place in the year 3994 A.D.

[edit] See also

31st century

[edit] References

• NASA: Eclipses in the fourth Millennium
• Occultations of Regulus by planets
• Occultations of bright stars by inner planets
• Triple planetary conjunctions