Pedants
Significant Events of the Millennium
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 turn 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.