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The fifth millennium is a period of time which will begin on 1 January 4001 and will end on 31 December 5000 .


ASTRONOMICAL EVENTS

  • 4285 Occults Regulus

  • 4296

  • 4557 November 10 : Venus occults Regulus

  • 4747 August 14 : Venus occults Regulus

  • 4772 Ends

  • In the 44th century, around the year 4380, Comet Hale-Bopp is expected to return to the inner Solar System . It last dominated the skies of Earth in 19961997 .

  • In the 49th century, The Great Comet Of 1811 is expected to return to the inner solar system. According to calculations made at the time, the comet should return around the year 4876.



ASTROLOGICAL EVENTS


Sometime during the first eight centuries of the 5th millennium (calculations vary among different Astrologer s), the 2,158 year long Age Of Aquarius will end and the Age Of Capricorn will begin.


FICTIONAL EVENTS


  • In the Zager And Evans song, '' In The Year 2525 '' — "In the year 4545. Ain't gonna need your teeth, won't need your eyes. You won't find a thing to chew. Nobody's gonna look at you."


  • A majority of the events of David Weber's Honor Harrington novels and short stories take place during the early years of the fifth millennium.




  • In the film '' A. I. '', a sequence said to take place in 4001 features the extinction of mankind after the ocean freezes over, but other intelligent life, the descendants of mankind's early intelligent robots, return to earth and excavate to discover their origins.



  • A scene in SB-129 from the animated television series, '' SpongeBob SquarePants '' takes place on March 6 , 4017.

  • 49th century: Susan from the television programme '' Doctor Who '' is born.

  • The events of the Doctor Who episode 42 will take place in the 42nd century.


  • The novel series ''Fifth Millenium'' by Stirling, Wehrstein and Meier is set in this time, chronicling the lives and travels of several connected characters in a 'low magic' Fantasy world that emerged after a nuclear war destroyed almost all former civilization on earth.



  • In several stories written by H.P. Lovecraft , the beginning of "the cruel Tsan-Chan Empire" will take place in the year 5000.



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