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In the Gregorian Calendar , the 2nd millennium commenced on 1 January 1001, and ended at the end of 31 December 2000. It is perhaps more popularly thought of as beginning and ending a year earlier, thus starting at the beginning of the year 1000.
Events
Some significant persons
1000 - 1300
- Ferdowsi ( 935 – 1020 ), Persian poet
- Basil II ( 958 - 1025 ), Byzantine Emperor
- Murasaki Shikibu ( 973 – 1025 ), Japanese author
- Pierre Abélard ( 1079 - 1142 ), French philosopher
- Bhaskara ( 1114 - 1185 ), Indian Mathematician , founder of Differential Calculus .
- Bernart De Ventadorn (c. 1130 – c. 1190 ), troubadour
- Maimonides ( 1135 - 1204 ), Jewish philosopher.
- Saladin ( 1137 - 1193 ), Kurdish Muslim leader
- Minamoto No Yoritomo ( 1147 – 1199 ), first Shogun of Japan
- Genghis Khan , (c. 1155 / 1162 / 1167 – 1227 ), Mongolian conqueror
- Jayavarman VII (c. 1181 - c. 1219 ) Khmer king (Cambodia)
- Thomas Aquinas ( 1225 – 1274 ), Italian theologian
- Dante Alighieri ( 1265 – 1321 ), Italian poet
- John Wycliffe (c. 1320 - 1384 ), English theologian and early proponent of reform in the Roman Catholic Church
- Mansa Musa ( 14th Century ), Malian leader
- Ibn Khaldun ( 1332 - 1406 ), Tunisian philosopher and historian
- Timur ( 1336 - 1405 ), founder of Timurid Empire
- Madhava Of Sangamagrama ( 1350 - 1425 ), Indian mathematician, father of Mathematical Analysis .
- Yongle Emperor of China ( 1360 - 1424 ), considered among the greatest Chinese emperors.
- Jan Hus ( 1369 - 1415 ), Bohemian religious thinker and reformer.
- Zheng He ( 1371 - 1435 ), Chinese explorer.
- Johannes Gutenberg (c. 1398 – 1468 ), Inventor of movable type
- Joan Of Arc ( 1412 - 1431 ), heroine of France and saint
- Lorenzo De' Medici ( 1492 - 1519 ) Italian statesman, poet and patron
1500 - 1800
- Isabella Of Castile ( 1451 - 1504 ) and Ferdinand II Of Aragon ( 1452 - 1516 ) Spanish monarchs
- Christopher Columbus ( 1451 – 1506 ), Italian explorer
- Leonardo Da Vinci ( 1452 – 1519 ), Italian Artist, Philosopher and Scientist
- Vasco Da Gama ( 1469 - 1524 ), Portuguese navigator
- Nicolaus Copernicus ( 1473 – 1543 ), astronomer and mathematician
- Ferdinand Magellan ( 1480 - 1521 ), Portuguese explorer
- Raphael ( 1483 - 1520 ), Italian artist
- Babur ( 1483 – 1530 ), founder of India's Mughal Empire , descendant of Timur .
- Martin Luther ( 1483 – 1546 ), German religious reformer.
- Suleiman The Magnificent ( 1495 - 1566 ), Turkish sultan, poet, patron
- Jyeshtadeva ( 1500 – 1575 ), Indian mathematician and astronomer, writer of the world's first Calculus text.
- Akbar ( 1542 – 1605 ), considered the greatest of the Mughal Emperor s
- Miguel De Cervantes ( 1547 – 1616 ), Spanish playwright and novelist
- Lope De Vega ( 1562 - 1635 ), Spanish playwright and poet
- Christopher Marlowe ( 1564 - 1593 ), English playwright and poet
- William Shakespeare ( 1564 – 1616 ), English playwright and poet
- Galileo Galilei ( 1564 – 1642 ), Italian scientist
- Jahangir ( 1569 – 1627 ), one of the greatest Mughal emperors
- Shah Jahan ( 1592 – 1666 ), one of the greatest Mughal emperors, builder of the Taj Mahal
- René Descartes ( 1596 – 1650 ), French philosopher and mathematician
- Pedro Calderón De La Barca ( 1600 - 1681 ), Spanish playwright and poet
- Molière ( 1622 - 1673 ), French playwright, actor and director
- John Locke ( 1632 - 1704 ), English philosopher
- Jean Racine ( 1639 - 1699 ), French playwright
- Isaac Newton ( 1642 – 1727 ), British scientist
- Bashō ( 1644 - 1694 ), Japanese poet
- Peter The Great ( 1672 - 1725 ) , Russian Tsar
- Voltaire ( 1694 - 1778 ), French philosopher
- Benjamin Franklin ( 1706 – 1790 ), American founding father and scientist
- David Hume ( 1711 - 1776 ), Scottish philosopher
- Denis Diderot ( 1713 - 1784 ), French philosopher
- Catherine The Great ( 1729 - 1796 ), Empress of Russia
- George Washington ( 1732 – 1799 ), First American president
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe ( 1749 - 1832 ), German novelist, dramatist, poet, humanist, scientist, philosopher, politician
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ( 1756 – 1791 ), Austrian Composer
- Maximilien Robespierre ( 1758 – 1794 ) French Revolutionary Leader
- Friedrich Schiller ( 1759 - 1805 ), German poet, philosopher, historian, and dramatist.
- Hokusai ( 1760 - 1849 ), Japanese artist
- Byron ( 1788 - 1824 ), Anglo-Scottish poet
19th century
- Thomas Jefferson ( 1743 – 1826 ), American founding father and president
- Charles-Maurice De Talleyrand ( 1754 - 1838 ), French politician
- Napoleon I Of France ( 1769 – 1821 ), French conqueror and emperor
- Klemens Wenzel Von Metternich ( 1773 - 1859 ), Austrian politician
- José De San Martín ( 1778 - 1850 ), Argentine military leader
- Simón Bolívar ( 1783 - 1830 ), South American revolutionary and politician
- Michael Faraday ( 1791 – 1867 ), British scientist and inventor
- Abraham Lincoln ( 1809 – 1865 ), American president
- Charles Darwin ( 1809 – 1882 ), British natural scientist
- Otto Von Bismarck ( 1815 – 1898 ), German chancellor
- Karl Marx ( 1818 – 1883 ), German political philosopher
- Queen Victoria ( 1819 – 1901 ), Queen of the United Kingdom
- Louis Pasteur ( 1822 – 1895 ), French microbiologist and chemist.
- Claude Monet ( 1840 - 1926 ), French painter
- Friedrich Nietzsche ( 1844 – 1900 ), German philosopher
- Thomas Edison ( 1847 – 1931 ), Inventor
- Vincent Van Gogh ( 1853 - 1890 ), Dutch painter
- Arthur Rimbaud ( 1854 – 1891 ), French poet, adventurer, explorer, businessman
- Sigmund Freud ( 1856 – 1939 ), Austrian psychoanalyst
- Nikola Tesla ( 1856 – 1943 ), Inventor
- Mangal Pandey (d. 1857 ), considered to be responsible for the Indian Mutiny
- Anton Chekov , ( 1860 - 1904 ), Russian playwright and author
- Henry Ford ( 1863 – 1947 ), Industrialist
- Mahatma Gandhi ( 1869 – 1948 ), Indian civil rights leader
- Henri Matisse ( 1869 – 1954 ), French artist
- Mustapha Kemal Atatürk ( 1881 - 1938 ), Turkish soldier, revolutionary and politician
20th century
- Marie Curie ( 1867 - 1934 ), French physicist of Polish origin
- Vladimir Lenin ( 1870 – 1924 ), Soviet leader
- Winston Churchill ( 1874 – 1965 ), British prime minister
- Albert Einstein ( 1879 – 1955 ), German physicist
- Joseph Stalin ( 1879 – 1953 ), Soviet leader
- Pablo Picasso ( 1881 – 1973 ), Spanish artist
- Franklin D. Roosevelt ( 1882 – 1945 ), American president
- Adolf Hitler ( 1889 – 1945 ), German dictator
- Ho Chi Minh ( 1890 – 1969 ), Vietnamese leader
- Mao Zedong ( 1893 – 1976 ), Chinese revolutionary
- Walt Disney ( 1901 – 1966 ), American film producer and animator
- Bhagat Singh ( 1907 – 1931 ), one of the most famous martyrs of the Indian freedom struggle
- Ronald Reagan ( 1911 – 2004 ), American president
- Gamal Abdel Nasser ( 1918 - 1970 , Egyptian leader
- Nelson Mandela ( 1918 - ), President of South Africa
- John Paul II ( 1920 – 2005 ), Pope of the Roman Catholic Church
- Martin Luther King, Jr. ( 1929 – 1968 ), American civil rights leader
Inventions, discoveries, and introductions
Centuries and decades
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