Clockwise from top-left: the funeral procession of King Hussein of Jordan in Amman; an earthquake in İzmit kills over 17,000 people in Turkey; the Columbine High School massacre, one of the first major school shootings in the United States; the year 2000 problem ("Y2K"), perceived as a major concern in the lead-up to the year 2000; the Millennium Dome (currently The O2 Arena) opens in London; online music downloading platform Napster is launched, soon a source of online piracy; NASA loses both the Mars Climate Orbiter and the Mars Polar Lander; a destroyed T-55 tank near Prizren during the Kosovo War.
This article is about the year 1999. For other uses, see 1999 (disambiguation).
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1999 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar
1999 MCMXCIX
Ab urbe condita
2752
Armenian calendar
1448 ԹՎ ՌՆԽԸ
Assyrian calendar
6749
Baháʼí calendar
155–156
Balinese saka calendar
1920–1921
Bengali calendar
1406
Berber calendar
2949
British Regnal year
47 Eliz. 2 – 48 Eliz. 2
Buddhist calendar
2543
Burmese calendar
1361
Byzantine calendar
7507–7508
Chinese calendar
戊寅年 (Earth Tiger) 4696 or 4489 — to — 己卯年 (Earth Rabbit) 4697 or 4490
Coptic calendar
1715–1716
Discordian calendar
3165
Ethiopian calendar
1991–1992
Hebrew calendar
5759–5760
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat
2055–2056
- Shaka Samvat
1920–1921
- Kali Yuga
5099–5100
Holocene calendar
11999
Igbo calendar
999–1000
Iranian calendar
1377–1378
Islamic calendar
1419–1420
Japanese calendar
Heisei 11 (平成１１年)
Javanese calendar
1931–1932
Juche calendar
88
Julian calendar
Gregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar
4332
Minguo calendar
ROC 88 民國88年
Nanakshahi calendar
531
Thai solar calendar
2542
Tibetan calendar
阳土虎年 (male Earth-Tiger) 2125 or 1744 or 972 — to — 阴土兔年 (female Earth-Rabbit) 2126 or 1745 or 973
Unix time
915148800 – 946684799
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1999 was designated as the International Year of Older Persons.
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