Y2k Cinderella Timeline

Notes on the Ancient Egyptian Calendar

                            TIMELINE
      BC 4713-01-01  -   (noon) Start of Julian (Scaliger) day count (JD),
                         coincidence of 28 year solar, 19 year lunar,
                         and 15 year indiction cycle.
         4000        -   Ancient Egyptian Calendar (Lunar)
         3000        -   Menes unites Upper and Lower Egypt
         2600        -   Mayan civilisation
         2344        -   Hebrew Deluge
         2300        -   Abraham leads Hebrews from Mesopatamia to Canaan
         2000        -   Stonehenge
         1500        -   Hebrew Border settlers become Egyptian labourers
         1360        -   Tutankhamen
         1300        -   Moses. Exodus. Ten Commandments.
         1274        -   Joshua invades Canaan.
         1200        -   Egyptian Sothic (Ptolemaic) Calendar (Solar)
         1000        -   Chinese Shang Dynasty
         1000        -   David conquers Palestine, Jerusalem as capital
          753        -   Start of Roman Calendar (Lunar)
          332        -   Alexander invades Egypt.
          238        -   Ptolemy III decrees every 4th year a leap year
          200        -   Mayan Calendar
          165        -   Revolt of the Maccabees
           62        -   Pompey subdues Judea
           46        -   Julian Calendar (Solar - 365.25 days) Roman Year 709
           44        -   Julius Caesar assassinated (Roman Year 711)
           30        -   Death of Cleopatra. (Roman Year 723)
                     -   End of Egyptian Dynastic period (4000BC-30BC)
         0000-00-00  -   Special value used by programmers
      AD    1        -   Start of Christian Era  (Roman Year 753)
         1325        -   Aztec Calendar
         1582        -   Gregorian Calendar (Solar- 400th year not leap)
         1582-10-15  -   Lilian Day 1
         1752        -   British Government (including American colonies) adapt Gregorian calendar
                         adopts Gregorian Calendar
         1900        -   Start of IBM/360 64 bit clock
         1901-01-01  -   Start of Lotus/Spreadsheet world
         1904        -   Start of original Apple Mac clock
         1918        -   Soviet Union adopts Gregorian Calendar
         1920        -   Current Start of Apple Mac World
         1949        -   Communist China adopts Gregorian Calendar
         1960        -   IBM/360
         1970        -   IBM/370
         1971        -   IBM Clock rollover
         1972-08-16  -   9999 days to 2000 (OS catalog corrupts)
         1979-02-01  -   Interface Age, Bob Bemer article
         1980        -   IBM 4300
         1980-08-01  -   MS DOS Default startup date (Zero date)
         1986-06-30  -   Deadline 2000 starts
         1986-07-21  -   Deadline 2000 ends
         1986        -   ANSI X3.30 defines YYYYMMDD standard
         1987        -   MVS SVC11 changes
                         VM IPL 01/01/00 to 2000
         1988-07-30  -   FIPS 4-1 YYYY standard in effect
         1988        -   ISO 8601 defines YYYY-MM-DD standard (but also allows 2 digit forms)
         1991        -   Chris Anderson writes about 4 digit years in MSDOS
         1995        -   Peter de Jager - Datamation
                         www.year2000.com on the air
                         US Congress Technical Committee
                         IBM announces Year 2000 ready ESA
         1996-01-01  -   UNISYS 8bit clock rollover
                         Datamation Year 2000 issue
         1996        -   US Congress subcommittees
         1996-11-06  -   comp.software.year-2000 begins
         1996-11-15  -   First "More Y2k Links" report
         1996-11-19  -   www.cinderella.co.za on the air
         1996-12-13  -   IBM announces VSE/ESA2.2 Y2k ready
         1997-01-01  -   Datamation Year 2000 issue
         1997-03-18  -   New York Stock Exchange trades on de Jager Index
         1997-04-07  -   999 days to 2000 (catalogs?)
         1997-10     -   US Government Progress Reviews
         1998-08-19  -   Global Y2k Awareness Day
         1998-12     -   US Government deadline for Mission Critical apps
         1999-01-01  -   US Government deadline
         1999-02-26  -   SA Government Gazette on local government
         1999-08-21  -   GPS EOW 10bit counter rollover
           99-09-09  -   Special value used by programmers
         1999-12-31  -   PC BIOS Tickover problem:
                         Set the clock early!
                         Public Holiday in South Africa
                         Party Time
             99/365  -   End of Pseudo Julian world
           99-99-99  -   Special Value used by programmers
         2000-01-01  -   Last year of the 20th Century
                         Overflow of 2 digit years causes Meltdown?
         2000-01-03  -   Public Holiday in South Africa
         2000-1-10   -   First 9-character date
         2000-02-29  -   Leap Year
         2000-10-10  -   First 10 character date
         2000-12-31  -   366th day of 2000
         2001-01-01  -   Start of 21st Century
         2001-01-01  -   Overflow Tandem Systems
         2001-09-08  -   Unix date 999,999,999
         2010-01-01  -   Overflow ANSI C library
         2019        -   Original Apple Mac end of world
         2034-09-30  -   Overflow Unix time function
         2038-01-19  -   UNIX signed 32bit timer rolls over
         2040        -   Current Apple Mac end of world
         2042-09-18  -   IBM 64bit clocks rolls over
         2099        -   MSDOS x86 (FAT 7 bit year) end of world
         2100-01-01  -   Not a leap year
         2101-01-01  -   Start of 22nd Century
         3000-01-01  -   Not a leap year
         9999-99-99  -   Special value used by programmers