Pedants (by Douglas Adams)

Significant Events of the Millennium

1 January 1000	Almost everyone celebrates the beginning of the second Millennium.
1 January 1001	Pedants celebrate the beginning of the second Millennium.
1 January 1100	Almost everyone celebrates the beginning of the twelfth century.
1 January 1101	Pedants celebrate the beginning of the twelfth century.
1 January 1200	Almost everyone celebrates the beginning of the thirteenth century.
1 January 1201	Pedants celebrate the beginning of the thirteenth century.
1 January 1300	Almost everyone celebrates the beginning of the fourteenth century.
1 January 1301	Pedants celebrate the beginning of the fourteenth century.
10 June 1381	The Pedants' Revolt reaches London. (Not the Pedants' Revolt, the Peasant's Revolt(sgd.) A Pedant. And kindly close the brackets.) (Thank you.)
1 January 1400	Almost everyone celebrates the beginning of the fifteenth century.
1 January 1401	Pedants celebrate the beginning of the fifteenth century.
1 January 1500	Almost everyone celebrates the beginning of the sixteenth century.
1 January 1501	Pedants celebrate the beginning of the sixteenth century.
1 January 1600	Almost everyone celebrates the beginning of the seventeenth century.
1 January 1601	People begin to get really fed up with pedants.
1 January 1700	Almost everyone celebrates the beginning of the eighteenth century.
1 January 1701	A few pedants begin to notice that pedants tend not to have very good celebrations.
1 January 1800	Almost everyone celebrates the beginning of the nineteenth century. A splinter group of ex-pedants turn up and get very drunk.
1 January 1801	The rest of the pedants celebrate the beginning of the nineteenth century.
1 January 1900	Almost everyone celebrates the beginning of the twentieth century. No pedants allowed.
1 January 1901	Pedants hold a Morris dancing festival.
24 November 1996	The Digital Village web site goes online: the third Millennium starts early and catches everybody by surprise.
1 January 2000	Anybody who even mentions the Millennium gets garrotted.
1 January 2001	Massacre of the Pedants.