1 January 1000 Almost everyone celebrates the beginning of the second Millennium. 1 January 1001 Pedants celebrate the beginning of the second Millennium. 1 January 1100 Almost everyone celebrates the beginning of the twelfth century. 1 January 1101 Pedants celebrate the beginning of the twelfth century. 1 January 1200 Almost everyone celebrates the beginning of the thirteenth century. 1 January 1201 Pedants celebrate the beginning of the thirteenth century. 1 January 1300 Almost everyone celebrates the beginning of the fourteenth century. 1 January 1301 Pedants celebrate the beginning of the fourteenth century. 10 June 1381 The Pedants' Revolt reaches London. (Not the Pedants' Revolt, the Peasants' Revolt. (sgd.) A Pedant. And kindly close the brackets.) (Thank you.) 1 January 1400 Almost everyone celebrates the beginning of the fifteenth century. 1 January 1401 Pedants celebrate the beginning of the fifteenth century. 1 January 1500 Almost everyone celebrates the beginning of the sixteenth century. 1 January 1501 Pedants celebrate the beginning of the sixteenth century. 1 January 1600 Almost everyone celebrates the beginning of the seventeenth century. 1 January 1601 People begin to get really fed up with pedants. 1 January 1700 Almost everyone celebrates the beginning of the eighteenth century. 1 January 1701 A few pedants begin to notice that pedants tend not to have very good celebrations. 1 January 1800 Almost everyone celebrates the beginning of the nineteenth century. A splinter group of ex-pedants turns up and get very drunk. 1 January 1801 The rest of the pedants celebrate the beginning of the nineteenth century. 1 January 1900 Almost everyone celebrates the beginning of the twentieth century. No pedants allowed. 1 January 1901 Pedants hold a Morris dancing festival. 24 November 1996 The Digital Village web site goes online: the third Millennium starts early and catches everybody by surprise. 1 January 2000 Anybody who even mentions the Millennium gets garrotted. 1 January 2001 Massacre of the Pedants. Douglas Adams says he has no problem with your posting the Pedants piece, properly credited (ideally with a link back to www.tdv.com) on your site, though he thinks it might be a bit old by now!