4th millennium

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The fourth millennium is a period of time which will begin on 1 January 3001 and will end on 31 December 4000.

Centuries

31st century | 32nd century | 33rd century | 34th century | 35th century | 36th century | 37th century | 38th century | 39th century | 40th century

Astronomical events

The Earth will experience 2,366 solar eclipses.

• 3126 July 22: Venus occults Regulus
• 3187 October 21: Venus occults Regulus
• 3230 October 8: Venus occults Spica
• 3414 October 25: Venus occults Regulus
• 3711/12: multi-triple conjunction between Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune
• 3982 August 27: Mercury occults Regulus

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Fictional events

• The novel 3001: The Final Odyssey is largely carried out in 3001 and the years following.
• Around the year 3200, according to the future in the novels of Isaac Asimov, the planet Solaria will be settled from Nexon. Around the same time, the scientist Han Falstofe will create the android R. Daneel Olivaw, future Eminence Grise of the Galaxy.
• The Sonic the Hedgehog comic book by Archie Comics and the Sonic The Hedgehog television show take place around the year 3235.
• Around the year 3500, again according to Isaac Asimov's Robot Series, R. Daneel Olivaw will meet Elijah Baley and assist him in solving a homicide - events that will have long-lasting consequences.
• Around 3505 the second wave of human expansion from Earth into the rest of the Galaxy will begin, also according to Asimov.
• In the year 3535, according to Zager and Evans' song "In the Year 2525 (Exordium and Terminus)", all of one's thoughts, words and actions will be pre-programmed in a daily pill.
• In the year 3781, according to Walter Miller Jr.'s "A Canticle for Leibowitz" a second nuclear holocaust destroys the Earth.
• Some say the year 3797 (or 3786 according to others) is the year Nostradamus claims will be the end of the world.
• 3798 is the year in which Michael Wang's "The Cosmos" mostly takes place.
• The year 3950 is the predicted year that the huge garbage ball that the people in the show Futurama used to knock the first giant garbage ball from the year 2052 into the sun will return.
• The film Planet of the Apes is set in 3978 CE, while its first sequel, Beneath the Planet of the Apes, is set in the year 3955. It is possible that the first film occurs in an alternate timeline to the subsequent four.
• The year 4000 is the time for the classic comic book Magnus, Robot Fighter created by Russ Manning. In this series, all of North America has become a single great city named North Am, with buildings commonly reaching a mile (1.6 kilometers) in height.
• According to South Park, God will come back to Earth.
• The Marvel Comics Super-villain Kang the Conqueror rules the Earth in the 41st century according to the comics.
• The Fox animated sitcom, Futurama is set largely in the 4th millennium. The series' start was actually set on new years eve, 2999, incorrectly attributed as the eve of the 31st century. The series remained 1000 years ahead of modern time.
• According to the song "What Would Brian Boitano Do?" from the movie "South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut", Brian Boitano travels through time to the year 3010, and fights the evil robot king to save the human race again.
• Power Rangers Time Force happened in the year 3000 where Ransik escaped and returned to the year 2001 (when the television series was being filmed)

References

• [http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/SEcatmax/SE3001-4000MaxT.html Nasa: Eclipses in the fourth Millennium
• Occultations of Regulus by planets
• Occultations of bright stars by inner planets
• Triple planetary conjunctions

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