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2000 was designated as the International Year for the Culture of Peace{{cite web |url=http://www3.unesco.org/iycp/ |title=2000: International Year for the Culture of Peace |website=UNESCO |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010124051400/http://www3.unesco.org/iycp/ |archive-date=January 24, 2001}} and the World Mathematical Year.{{cite web |url=http://www.newton.ac.uk/wmy2kposters/ |title=Isaac Newton Maths posters in the London Underground |access-date=July 23, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131010060459/http://www.newton.ac.uk/wmy2kposters/ |archive-date=October 10, 2013 |url-status=dead}}

Popular culture holds the year 2000 as the first year of the 21st century and the 3rd millennium{{Citation needed|date=January 2024|reason=}},{{Cite web|url=https://www.rferl.org/a/1095427.html|title=World: Which Is The True Third Millennium Year, 2000 Or 2001?|first=Eugen|last=Tomiuc|work=Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty |date=April 9, 2008|via=www.rferl.org}} because of a tendency to group the years according to decimal values, as if non-existent year zero was counted. According to the Gregorian calendar, these distinctions fall to the year 2001, because the 1st century was retroactively said to start with the year AD 1. Since the Gregorian calendar does not have year zero, its first millennium spanned from years 1 to 1000 inclusively and its second millennium from years 1001 to 2000. (For further information, see century and millennium.)

The year 2000 is sometimes abbreviated as "Y2K" (the "Y" stands for "year", and the "K" stands for "kilo" which means "thousand").{{cite web |url=http://www.calendarhome.com/clink/y2000.html |title=Y2K, After the Hype |publisher=CalendarHome.com |access-date=September 15, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130831075015/http://calendarhome.com/clink/y2000.html |archive-date=August 31, 2013}}{{cite news |first=Tina |last=Kelley |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/12/27/nyregion/y2k-stands-for-the-year-2000-now-that-wasn-t-really-difficult-was-it.html |title='Y2K' Stands for the Year 2000. Now That Wasn't Really Difficult, Was It? |newspaper=The New York Times |date=December 27, 1999 |access-date=September 15, 2013 |archive-date=October 2, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131002222719/http://www.nytimes.com/1999/12/27/nyregion/y2k-stands-for-the-year-2000-now-that-wasn-t-really-difficult-was-it.html |url-status=live }} The year 2000 was the subject of Y2K concerns, which were fears that computers would not shift from 1999 to 2000 correctly. However, by the end of 1999, many companies had already converted to new, or upgraded existing, software. Some even obtained "Y2K certification". As a result of massive effort, relatively few problems occurred.

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Events

=January=

  • January 1
  • The Longplayer starts playing for 1,000 years.{{cite web |last1=Wallace |first1=Helen |title=Reaching into the future: Longplayer |url=https://www.kingsplace.co.uk/magazine/features/reaching-into-the-future-longplayer/ |website=Kings Place |date=January 5, 2018 |accessdate=19 February 2025}}
  • Millennium celebrations are held around the world to celebrate the beginning of the 3rd millennium.{{Cite news |date=2000-01-01 |title=2000: World celebrates New Millennium |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/january/1/newsid_2478000/2478173.stm |access-date=2025-01-11 |work=BBC News |language=en-GB}}
  • The year 2000 problem, a time formatting and storage bug, takes effect, but is successfully mitigated in many cases.{{cite news |last1=Loeb |first1=Zachary |title=The lessons of Y2K, 20 years later |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=30 December 2019 |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/12/30/lessons-yk-years-later/ |access-date=7 June 2021 |archive-date=2020-12-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201202183008/https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/12/30/lessons-yk-years-later/ |url-status=live }}
  • January 6 – The last naturally conceived Pyrenean ibex is found dead, apparently killed by a falling tree.{{cite web|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/kionasmith/2021/01/23/the-species-that-went-extinct-twice |title=The Species That Went Extinct Twice |last=Smith |first=Kiona N. |date=January 23, 2021 |website=Forbes |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210131073011/https://www.forbes.com/sites/kionasmith/2021/01/23/the-species-that-went-extinct-twice/ |archive-date=January 31, 2021 |url-status=live}}
  • January 8 – In Soria (Spain) a large chunk of ice is reported to have fallen from the sky. Over the following months, a social panic about this phenomenon is unleashed, with reports of a multitude of similar cases of falling ice chunks (incorrectly named as aerolites) all over Spain, attracting great attention from the Spanish media.{{Cite web |date=2019-12-10 |title=20 AÑOS DE "AEROLITOS" EN ESPAÑA |url=http://esmadridnomadriz.es/blog/20-a%C3%B1os-de-aerolitos-en-espa%C3%B1a |access-date=2025-04-26 |website=Es Madrid no Madriz |language=es-ES}}{{Cite web |last=H |first=R. S. / A. L. |date=2020-02-02 |title=El enigma sobre los aerolitos se mantiene dos décadas después |url=https://www.laopiniondemurcia.es/comunidad/2020/02/02/enigma-aerolitos-mantiene-decadas-despues-33942740.html |access-date=2025-04-26 |website=La Opinión de Murcia |language=es}}
  • January 10 – America Online announces an agreement to purchase Time Warner for $162 billion (the largest-ever corporate merger).{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/11/business/media/11merger.html |title=How the AOL-Time Warner Merger Went So Wrong |last=Arango |first=Tim |date=January 10, 2010 |work=The New York Times |url-status=live |archive-date=January 24, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100124024239/https://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/11/business/media/11merger.html}}
  • January 14
  • The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes at 11,722.98 (at the peak of the Dot-com bubble).{{cite web |url=https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/357298/000035729801500016/dowjones.html |title=Dow Jones |publisher=U.S. Securities and Exchanges Commission |access-date=July 25, 2018 |archive-date=July 26, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180726071917/https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/357298/000035729801500016/dowjones.html |url-status=live }}
  • The United Nations' International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia sentences five Bosnian Croats to up to 25 years in prison for the 1993 killing of more than 100 Bosnian Muslims.
  • January 30 – Kenya Airways Flight 431 crashes off the Ivory Coast into the Atlantic Ocean, killing 169 people.{{cite web|date=25 January 2002|title=REPORT – Accident which occurred on 30 January 2000 in the sea near Abidjan Airport to the Airbus 310–304 registered 5Y-BEN operated by Kenya Airways|url=https://www.bea.aero/docspa/2000/5y-n000130a/pdf/5y-n000130a.pdf|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190130053439/https://www.bea.aero/docspa/2000/5y-n000130a/pdf/5y-n000130a.pdf|archive-date=30 January 2019|publisher=Bureau of Enquiry and Analysis for Civil Aviation Safety}}
  • January 31 – Alaska Airlines Flight 261 crashes off the California coast into the Pacific Ocean; all 88 passengers and crew are killed.{{cite web|url=http://www.alaskaair.com/E_latest.asp|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010212073412/http://www.alaskaair.com/E_latest.asp|url-status=dead|archive-date=February 12, 2001|title=Flight 261 Special Report: Alaska Airlines Names Aviation Experts To Conduct Safety Audit|publisher=Alaska Airlines|date=March 24, 2000|access-date=May 29, 2018}} Latest version of rolling report (originally retrieved May 31, 2009)

=February=

  • February 5
  • Second Chechen War: Novye Aldi massacre – Russian forces summarily execute 56–60 civilians in a suburb of Grozny.{{cite book | title = Endless brutality: war crimes in Chechnya | publisher = Physicians for Human Rights | location = Boston, Mass | year = 2001 | isbn = 9781879707320 | page=58}}
  • 2000 Six Nations Championship in rugby union opens, the first year in which Italy takes part.
  • February 6 – Second Chechen War: Battle of Grozny (1999–2000) ends as Russian forces conclude capture of the Chechen capital Grozny.{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/632767.stm|title=Putin: 'Grozny liberated'|publisher=BBC News|date=7 February 2000|access-date=July 1, 2022|archive-date=August 18, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170818175746/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/632767.stm|url-status=live}}
  • February 9 – Torrential rains in Africa led to the worst flooding in Mozambique in 50 years, which lasted until March and killed 800 people.
  • February 13 – Final Peanuts comic is printed in newspapers, preceded by author Charles M. Schulz's death the night before. It was the most popular comic strip in history, running for 50 years.{{Cite web |last=Writers |first=Jonathan Curiel, Pamela J. Podger, Chronicle Staff |date=2000-02-14 |title=Farewell to Schulz, Peanuts / As comic strip ends, fans mourn... |url=https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Farewell-to-Schulz-Peanuts-As-comic-strip-3240791.php |access-date=2023-12-26 |website=San Francisco Chronicle}}
  • February 17 – Microsoft releases Windows 2000.{{cite web|url=https://news.microsoft.com/2000/02/17/gates-ushers-in-next-generation-of-pc-computing-with-launch-of-windows-2000/ |title=Gates Ushers in Next Generation of PC Computing With Launch of Windows 2000 |date=February 17, 2000|publisher=Microsoft}}
  • February 21 – UNESCO holds the inaugural celebration of International Mother Language Day.{{cite web|url=https://www.un.org/en/observances/mother-language-day|title=International Mother Language Day|publisher=United Nations|access-date=July 1, 2022|archive-date=July 1, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220701183121/https://www.un.org/en/observances/mother-language-day/|url-status=live}}
  • February 29 – A rare century leap year date occurs. Usually, century years are common years due to not being exactly divisible by 400. 2000 is the first such year to have a February 29 since the year 1600, making it only the second such occasion since the Gregorian Calendar was introduced in 1582. The next such leap year will occur in 2400.

=March=

  • March 4 – Sony releases the PlayStation 2 in Japan to compete with the Dreamcast. It launches in other countries later in the year.{{Cite web |date=2020-11-19 |title=History of PlayStation: PS1, PS2, PS3, PS4, PS5 – Launch Prices, Specs, Games |url=https://www.psu.com/news/history-of-playstation-ps1-ps2-ps3-ps4-and-ps5-launch-prices-specs-and-games/ |access-date=2023-12-15 |website=PlayStation Universe}}
  • March 10 – The NASDAQ Composite Index reaches an all-time high of 5,048.[http://www.finfacts.com/irelandbusinessnews/publish/article_1000766.shtml Fifth Anniversary: Nasdaq's record all-time closing high 5,048.62] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201116161010/http://www.finfacts.com/irelandbusinessnews/publish/article_1000766.shtml |date=November 16, 2020 }}. Retrieved November 19, 2007. Two weeks later, the NASDAQ-100, S&P 500, and Wilshire 5000 reach their peaks prior to the Dot-com bubble, ending a bull market run that had lasted over 17 years.
  • March 12
  • Pope John Paul II apologizes for the wrongdoings by members of the Roman Catholic Church throughout the ages.{{Cite web |last=Boudreaux |first=Richard |date=2000-03-13 |title=Pope Apologizes for Catholic Sins Past and Present |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-mar-13-mn-8338-story.html |access-date=2023-12-15 |website=Los Angeles Times}}
  • A Zenit-3SL sea launch fails due to a software bug.{{cite web |url=http://spaceflightnow.com/sealaunch/ico1/000330software.html |work=Spaceflight Now |title=Sea Launch malfunction blamed on software glitch |first=Justin |last=Ray |date=March 30, 2000 |access-date=December 23, 2015 |archive-date=March 4, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304115644/http://spaceflightnow.com/sealaunch/ico1/000330software.html |url-status=live }}
  • March 13 – The United States dollar becomes the official currency of Ecuador, replacing the Ecuadorian sucre.
  • March 17 – Uganda mass suicide: 778 members of the Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God die in Uganda.
  • March 26 – 2000 Russian presidential election: Vladimir Putin is elected President of Russia.

=April=

=May=

  • May 1 – A new class of composite material is fabricated, which has a combination of physical properties never before seen in a natural or human-made material.{{cite journal |doi=10.1103/PhysRevLett.84.4184 |pmid=10990641 |title=Composite Medium with Simultaneously Negative Permeability and Permittivity |first5=S |last5=Schultz |first4=SC |last4=Nemat-Nasser |first3=DC |last3=Vier |first2=WJ |year=2000 |last2=Padilla |last1=Smith |first1=D. R. |journal=Physical Review Letters |volume=84 |issue=18 |pages=4184–7 |bibcode=2000PhRvL..84.4184S |doi-access=free| issn=0031-9007}}{{cite web |author=McDonald, Kim |title=UCSD Physicists Develop a New Class of Composite Material with 'Reverse' Physical Properties Never Before Seen |url=http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/newsrel/science/mccomposite.htm |publisher=UCSD Science and Engineering |date=March 21, 2000 |access-date=December 17, 2010 |archive-date=June 11, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110611235821/http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/newsrel/science/mccomposite.htm |url-status=live }}
  • May 4 – The 7.6 {{M|w|link=y}} Central Sulawesi earthquake affects Banggai, Indonesia, with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VII (Very strong), leaving 46 dead and 264 injured.
  • May 5
  • After originating in the Philippines, the ILOVEYOU computer virus spreads quickly throughout the world.
  • A rare conjunction of seven celestial bodies (Sun, Moon, planets Mercury–Saturn) occurs during the new moon.{{cite web |url=http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/alignment.html |title=Planetary Alignment of 5 May 2000 |publisher=Nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov |access-date=September 15, 2013 |archive-date=April 19, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200419140559/https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/alignment.html |url-status=live }}
  • May 11 – India's population reaches 1 billion.{{Cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=uOsSAAAAIBAJ&pg=5551,31832&dq=india+1+billion+population|title=Lakeland Ledger – Google News Archive Search}}{{Dead link|date=December 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}{{Cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=4bILAAAAIBAJ&pg=6004,4288407&dq=india+1+billion+population|title=Ludington Daily News – Google News Archive Search}}{{Dead link|date=December 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
  • May 13
  • A fireworks factory disaster in Enschede, Netherlands, kills 23.
  • Millennium Force opens at Cedar Point amusement park in Sandusky, Ohio as the world's tallest and fastest roller coaster
  • May 24 – Real Madrid C.F. defeats Valencia CF 3–0 in the UEFA Champions League Final at Stade de France to win their second title between 1998 and 2002, and their eighth overall.

=June=

  • June 4 – The 7.9 {{M|w}} Enggano earthquake shakes southwestern Sumatra, killing 103 people and injuring at least 2,174.
  • June 10–July 2 – Belgium and the Netherlands jointly host the UEFA Euro 2000 football tournament, which is won by France.
  • June 17 – A centennial earthquake (6.5 on the Richter scale) hits Iceland on its national day.{{Cite web |date=2020-10-05 |title=Historical earthquakes in Iceland – Iceland geology |url=https://icelandgeology.net/?page_id=8039 |access-date=2023-12-15}}
  • June 21 – Another earthquake hits Iceland further west than the previous quake.
  • June 26 – A preliminary draft of genomes, as part of the Human Genome Project, is finished. It is announced at the White House by President Clinton.{{cite web |url=https://web.ornl.gov/sci/techresources/Human_Genome/project/clinton1.shtml |title=President Clinton Announces the Completion of the First Survey of the Entire Human Genome |website=web.ornl.gov |publisher=White House Briefing Room |type=Press release |date=June 25, 2000 |access-date=June 26, 2013 |url-status=live |archive-date=March 18, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210318084434/https://web.ornl.gov/sci/techresources/Human_Genome/project/clinton1.shtml}}

=July=

  • July 1 – The Øresund Bridge between Denmark and Sweden is officially opened for traffic.
  • July 2 – France defeats Italy 2–1 after extra time in the final of the UEFA Euro 2000 Championship in Association football, becoming the first team to win the World Cup and European Championship consecutively.
  • July 2 – Vicente Fox of the National Action Party (PAN) is elected President of Mexico, becoming the first president not from the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) since 1929.{{Cite news |last=Milner |first=Kate |date=2 July 2000 |title=End of era for all-powerful party |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/815359.stm |access-date=28 November 2008 |publisher=BBC News}}
  • July 7 – The draft assembly of Human Genome Project is announced at the White House by US President Bill Clinton, Francis Collins, and Craig Venter.
  • July 10 – In southern Nigeria, a leaking petroleum pipeline explodes, killing about 250 villagers who were scavenging gasoline.
  • July 11–25 – A summit meeting takes place at Camp David between United States president Bill Clinton, Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak and Palestinian Authority chairman Yasser Arafat, ending without an agreement.{{Cite web |title=BBC News {{!}} MIDDLE EAST {{!}} Camp David timeline |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/848968.stm |access-date=2023-10-23 |publisher=BBC News |archive-date=October 27, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231027153036/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/848968.stm |url-status=live }}
  • July 14 – A powerful solar flare, later named the Bastille Day event, causes a geomagnetic storm on Earth.{{cite journal |title=The Bastille Day (14 July 2000) event in historical large sun-earth connection events |date=January 2001 |doi=10.1023/A:1014273227639 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/226083577 |access-date=2 January 2021|last1=Watari |first1=Shinichi |last2=Kunitake |first2=Manabu |last3=Watanabe |first3=Takashi |journal=Solar Physics |volume=204 |issue=1/2 |pages=425–438 |bibcode=2001SoPh..204..425W |s2cid=117394988 }}
  • July 25 – Air France Flight 4590, a Concorde aircraft, crashes into a hotel in Gonesse just after takeoff from Paris, killing all 109 aboard and 4 in the hotel.

=August=

= September =

=October=

  • October 3 – Approximate start of Autumn 2000 Western Europe floods (particularly affecting the UK), precipitated by days of heavy rain.
  • October 5 – Mass demonstrations in Belgrade lead to resignation of Yugoslavia's president Slobodan Milošević.
  • October 11 – {{convert|250|e6USgal|m3}} of coal sludge spill in Martin County, Kentucky, United States (considered a greater environmental disaster than the Exxon Valdez oil spill).
  • October 12 – In Aden, Yemen, USS Cole is badly damaged by two Al-Qaeda suicide bombers, who place a small boat laden with explosives alongside the United States Navy destroyer, killing 17 crew members and wounding at least 39.
  • October 17 – Hatfield rail crash: A Great North Eastern Railway Intercity 225 express train is derailed, killing four people and injuring many others, in Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England.{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4216830.stm |title=How Hatfield changed the railways |publisher=BBC News |date=September 6, 2005 |access-date=August 23, 2016 |archive-date=January 12, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210112000142/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4216830.stm |url-status=live}}
  • October 22
  • The Mainichi Shimbun newspaper exposes Japanese archaeologist Shinichi Fujimura as a fraud; Japanese archaeologists had based their treatises on his findings.
  • Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori and Singaporean Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong formally negotiate a Japan-Singapore Economic Agreement for a New Age Partnership (JSEPA).{{cite web|url=https://www.brookings.edu/articles/evolution-of-japans-policy-toward-economic-integration/ |title=Evolution of Japan's Policy Toward Economic Integration |date=December 1, 2001 |last=Munakata |first=Naoko |website=Brookings |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220210024233/https://www.brookings.edu/articles/evolution-of-japans-policy-toward-economic-integration/amp/ |archive-date=February 10, 2022}}
  • October 26 – Pakistani authorities announce that their police have found an apparent mummy of an alleged Persian Princess in the province of Balochistan, Pakistan. The governments of Iran, Pakistan as well as the Taliban of Afghanistan all claim the mummy until Pakistan announces it is a modern-day forgery in April 2001.{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/nov/26/pakistan.iran |title=Pakistan and Iran fight over mummified princess |date=November 26, 2000 |last=Harding |first=Luke |website=The Guardian |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210217203513/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/nov/26/pakistan.iran |archive-date=February 17, 2021}}
  • October 31
  • Soyuz TM-31 is launched, carrying the first resident crew to the International Space Station. The ISS has been continuously crewed since.{{cite web |url=http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2000/11/06/207767.htm?site=science_dev&topic=latest |title=Let the new space era begin |date=November 6, 2000 |publisher=ABC |access-date=August 5, 2010 |archive-date=September 17, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110917103602/http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2000/11/06/207767.htm?site=science_dev&topic=latest |url-status=live}}
  • Singapore Airlines Flight 006 collides with construction equipment in the Chiang Kai Shek International Airport, resulting in 83 deaths.

=November=

  • November 2 – Expedition 1 to the International Space Station begins.{{Cite news|date=October 31, 2000|title=First crew starts living and working on the International Space Station|publisher=European Space Agency|url=https://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Human_Spaceflight/International_Space_Station/First_crew_starts_living_and_working_on_the_International_Space_Station|access-date=January 24, 2021|archive-date=December 17, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181217064333/http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Human_Spaceflight/International_Space_Station/First_crew_starts_living_and_working_on_the_International_Space_Station|url-status=live}}
  • November 7 – 2000 United States presidential election: No winner can be declared, prompting a controversial recount in Florida.{{cite news |url=http://www.cnn.com/2000/ALLPOLITICS/stories/11/08/election.president/ |title=Florida recounts votes county by county as candidates wait |date=November 8, 2000 |publisher=CNN |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20001109023909/http://www.cnn.com/2000/ALLPOLITICS/stories/11/08/election.president/ |archive-date=November 9, 2000 |access-date=April 16, 2020}}
  • November 11 – Kaprun disaster, Austria: A funicular fire in an Alpine tunnel kills 155 skiers and snowboarders.{{cite book|author1=Vishnu Konoorayar|author2=V. S. Jaya|title=Disaster Management and Law|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XbGbAAAAMAAJ|year=2005|publisher=Indian Law Institute|page=214}}
  • November 12 – The United States recognizes the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.{{cite web |url=https://history.state.gov/countries/kingdom-of-yugoslavia |title=Kingdom of Serbia/Yugoslavia |work=A Guide to the United States' History of Recognition, Diplomatic, and Consular Relations, by Country, since 1776 |author=Office of the Historian, Foreign Service Institute |publisher=United States Department of State |access-date=July 14, 2020 |archive-date=February 11, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100211015136/https://history.state.gov/countries/kingdom-of-yugoslavia |url-status=live }}
  • November 15 – Bihar is divided into two parts (by the Bihar Reorganisation Act, 2000) and Jharkhand, the 28th state of India, is created. Hence, this day is celebrated as Jharkhand Foundation Day.{{Cite book |last=Bera |first=Gautam Kumar |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9qrmTdshzKQC&q=Bihar+State+reorganization+bill&pg=PA60 |title=The Unrest Axle: Ethno-social Movements in Eastern India |date=2008 |publisher=Mittal Publications |isbn=978-81-8324-145-8}}{{Cite web |date=25 August 2000 |title=The Bihar Reorganisation Act, 2000 |url=https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1054471/ |access-date=19 November 2023 |website=IndianKanoon.org |archive-date=July 24, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190724073805/https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1054471/ |url-status=live }}
  • November 20 – Alberto Fujimori, President of Peru, faxes his resignation from a hotel room in Japan, having fled Peru after facing corruption charges.{{cite news | url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/1032381.stm | title=Peru's Fujimori resigns | date=November 20, 2000 | access-date=May 31, 2022 | archive-date=October 6, 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231006224932/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/1032381.stm | url-status=live }} Fujimori would be officially removed from office by Congress on the 22nd.{{Cite web |last=Faiola |first=Anthony |date=2000-11-22 |title=Peruvian Lawmakers Kick Fujimori Out of Office |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2000/11/22/peruvian-lawmakers-kick-fujimori-out-of-office/0c6188f9-b45c-4afb-9b9d-b93ddc1c1550/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191218015646/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2000/11/22/peruvian-lawmakers-kick-fujimori-out-of-office/0c6188f9-b45c-4afb-9b9d-b93ddc1c1550/ |archive-date=December 18, 2019 |access-date=2022-06-08 |newspaper=The Washington Post}}

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World population

{{Main|List of countries by population in 2000}}

class="wikitable"
colspan=8|World population[http://esa.un.org/unpp World Population Prospects] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071216015218/http://esa.un.org/unpp/ |date=December 16, 2007 }}. Retrieved November 19, 2007.
!2000

!colspan=3|1995

!colspan=3|2005

World

|align="right"|6,070,581,000

|align="right"|5,674,380,000

|align="right"|+396,201,000

|align="right"|+6.98%

|align="right"|6,453,628,000

|align="right"|+383,047,000

|align="right"|+6.31%

Africa

|align="right"|795,671,000

|align="right"|707,462,000

|align="right"|+88,209,000

|align="right"|+12.47%

|align="right"|887,964,000

|align="right"|+92,293,000

|align="right"|+11.60%

Asia

|align="right"|3,679,737,000

|align="right"|3,430,052,000

|align="right"|+249,685,000

|align="right"|+7.28%

|align="right"|3,917,508,000

|align="right"|+237,771,000

|align="right"|+6.46%

Europe

|align="right"|727,986,000

|align="right"|727,405,000

|align="right"|+581,000

|align="right"|+0.08%

|align="right"|724,722,000

|align="right"|−3,264,000

|align="right"|−0.45%

Latin America

|align="right"|520,229,000

|align="right"|481,099,000

|align="right"|+39,130,000

|align="right"|+8.13%

|align="right"|558,281,000

|align="right"|+38,052,000

|align="right"|+7.31%

Northern America

|align="right"|315,915,000

|align="right"|299,438,000

|align="right"|+16,477,000

|align="right"|+5.50%

|align="right"|332,156,000

|align="right"|+16,241,000

|align="right"|+5.14%

Oceania

|align="right"|31,043,000

|align="right"|28,924,000

|align="right"|+2,119,000

|align="right"|+7.33%

|align="right"|32,998,000

|align="right"|+1,955,000

|align="right"|+6.30%

Births and deaths

{{Main|Births in 2000|Deaths in 2000}}

Nobel Prizes

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References

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