According to an often widespread belief, the year of Grâce would be an expression medieval E employed by the Believing S of the Christian Occident, according to which there would be a survival with a “Apocalypse” that some Astrologue S would have announced for the year 1000.
One thinks sometimes that as from the year 1001, every year is deducted like year of grace , as a survival of this " Apocalypse ".

Origin of the expression

Actually, in addition to the “terrors of the year millet” are now regarded as having been extremely exaggerated by certain historians, the expression " year of grâce" is attested only as from the 14th century. Any use of the expression " year of grâce" former to 1300 is a Anachronisme.

It is acted in fact of indicating the year in the Christian era, or era of the Incarnation, i.e. compared to the birth of Jesus-Christ.

A synonym of year of grace is Anno domini (in summary AD), often indicated in the documents.

Passage à l' year 2000

A few years before the passage to the year 2000, a fear reached the world, especially with the the United States. It adapted to savors of the time: the Computer S and the Data-processing . It was feared that the data-processing adaptations are not ready for the expiry of January 1st 2000.

In Europe, the data-processing passage to the year 2000 occurred for the transitional period with the Euro, which was held of January 1st 1999 with the December 31st 2001 for the currency managed in the computing systems. This period was a boom for the Informatique.

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