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Clockwise from top-left: the funeral procession of King Hussein of Jordan in Amman; an earthquake in Izmit 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. 1999 Events Collage.png
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.
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 1405–1406
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

1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1999th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 999th year of the 2nd millennium, the 99th year of the 20th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1990s decade.

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1999 was designated as the International Year of Older Persons.

Events

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

Births and deaths

Nobel Prizes

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New English words and terms

References

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