Mainly Galileo Galilei ( 1564 – 1642 ) but also Marin Mersenne ( 1588 – 1648 ), independently, discovered the complete laws of vibrating strings ( completing what Pythagoras and Pythagoreans had started 2000 years earlier ).

Croatia became a World Trade Organization ( WTO ) member in 2000 and started the Accession of Croatia to the European Union in 2003.

Before 2000, arguments that the Deccan Traps flood basalts caused the extinction were usually linked to the view that the extinction was gradual, as the flood basalt events were thought to have started around 68 Ma and lasted for over 2 million years.

Although the counter-demonstration attracted half a million participants, the movement for change started in 2000 was influential on King Mohammed VI, and he enacted a new Mudawana, or family law, in early 2004, meeting some of the demands of women's rights activists.

2000 rebuilding was started in a style emulating the previous architecture, in many cases over the same foundations and utilising the old bricks and portions of the same walls.

Essendon started season 2012 with four straight wins, its best start to a season since 2000.

In 1999, they emerged in northern Liberia, in April 2000 they started fighting in Lofa County in northernmost Liberia.

Von Trier's use of sexually explicit images in The Idiots ( 1998 ) started a wave of arthouse mainstream films with unsimulated sex, such as Catherine Breillat's Romance ( 1999 ), Baise-Moi ( 2000 ), Intimacy ( 2001 ), Vincent Gallo's The Brown Bunny ( 2003 ) and Michael Winterbottom's 9 Songs ( 2004 ).

As of 2000, Bulgaria started to grant Bulgarian citizenship to members of the Bulgarian minorities in a number of countries, including the Republic of Macedonia.

Although a counter-demonstration attracted half a million participants, the movement for change started in 2000 was influential on King Mohammed, and he enacted a new Mudawana, or family law, in early 2004, meeting some of the demands of women's rights activists.

MeatballWiki was started in 2000 by Sunir Shah, a forum administrator from Ontario, Canada, on Clifford Adams's Internet domain usemod. com.

The bombings started in 1998, and included nine bombings in 2000.

Tehelka started off as a news portal in 2000 and broke the match-fixing story in Indian and International Cricket and later on a sting operation on defence deals in Indian Army.

In March 2000, TMBG started dialasong. com, which was more reliable than the original, phone-based version, as it utilized a flash document to stream the songs.

A radio-based transatlantic telephone service was started in 1927, charging £ 9 ( about $ 45 USD, or roughly $ 550 in 2010 dollars ) for three minutes and handling around 2000 calls a year.

( Welsh: wysgi or wisgi ) In 2000, Penderyn Distillery started production of Penderyn single malt whisky, the first Welsh whisky since all production ended in 1894.

The 2000 season started with the selection of future Pro Bowler Chris Samuels and the tumultuous LaVar Arrington in the 2000 NFL Draft and included five consecutive wins in the first half of the season.

The former of the two was almost exclusively in the hands of the white minority until the highly controversial and disastrous land redistribution program that started in 2000.

2000 ( MM ) was a leap year that started on a Saturday, in accordance with the Gregorian calendar.

The race started at 12: 15 pm ( EST ) from 1979 until 2000.

In 2000, the first widely available software ALE controller for the Personal Computer, PCALE, became available, and hams started to set up stations based on it.

Shlomi Fish started his own solver in 2000, written in C and distributed with source under the public domain ( later relicensed under the MIT License ).

Writing in 2000, David Roffe argued that the inquest ( the survey ) and the construction of the book were two distinct exercises ; the latter being completed, if not started, by William II following his assumption of the English throne and quashing of the rebellion that followed and based on, though not consequent on, the findings of the inquest.

* c. 2000 BC: Site of palace complex Knossos started to become occupied.

In central and western Anatolia another Indo European people, the Luwians came to the fore, circa 2000 BC.

The Amiga brand was then sold to another PC manufacturer, Gateway 2000, which had announced grand plans for it.

In 2000, the Falcons suffered through another horrendous season finishing 4-12 and once again missing the playoffs.

Food is consumed and transferred to points ( an increasing scale of 1000 points is awarded for each enemy burst in tandem with another meaning: one enemy burst equals one food item worth 1000 points, two enemies burst equals two food items worth 1000 and 2000 points, three enemies burst equals three food items worth 1000, 2000, and 4000 points, and so on ) which results in more lives.

In February 2000, another branch of FRUD signed a peace accord with the government.

In 2000, he hosted two summits at Sharm El-Sheikh and one at Taba in an effort to resume the Camp David negotiations suspended in July 2000, and in June 2003, Mubarak hosted President George W. Bush for another summit on Middle East peace process.

In February of 2012, it was reported in Turkish newspapers that another Syriac manuscript of the Gospel of Barnabas had been found in Cyprus in 2000, in an operation conducted by police against smugglers ; and, having been kept in a police repository since then, had been deposited in the Ethnography Museum of Ankara.

Had he played in another era uninterrupted by war, it has often been said that Greenberg would have hit between 500 and 600 home runs and driven in 1800 to 2000 runs.

President Abdurrahman Wahid took office in October 1999, and Indonesia and the IMF signed another EFF in January 2000.

In April 1999, Quayle announced his candidacy for the 2000 Republican presidential nomination, attacking front-runner George W. Bush by saying " we do not want another candidate who needs on-the-job training ".

Bakker released another book that same year, Prosperity and the Coming Apocalypse ISBN 978-0-7852-6987-8, and, in 2000, he published The Refuge: The Joy of Christian Community in a Torn-Apart World ISBN 978-0-7852-7459-9.

Jemaah Islamiah-connected bombings occurred almost annually in the city between 2000 and 2005, with another bombing in 2009.

* 2000 – S & P 500 index reaches an intraday high of 1, 552. 87, a peak that, due to the collapse of the dot-com bubble, it will not reach again for another seven-and-a-half years.

After winning consecutive championships with Benetton in 1994 / 5, Schumacher moved to Ferrari in 1996 and won another five consecutive drivers ' titles with them from 2000 to 2004.

He returned to Broadway in 2000 in the New York Shakespeare Festival's The Wild Party, earning another Tony Award nomination for Best Actor ( Musical ).

Topped out on 2 September 1998, the Sony Centre was formally opened on 14 June 2000 ( although many of its public attractions had been up and running since 20 January ), in another grand ceremony with more music-this time with Sony's Japanese Chairman Norio Ohga himself conducting the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra.

In 2000, Pope John Paul II approved yet another typical edition, which appeared in 2002, with the indication " Editio Typica Tertia " ( Third Typical Edition ).

In 2000, another US $ 77 million was provided in loans for suburban areas, small cities and towns, and regional industrial areas.

Most recently, in 2000, Senegal sent a battalion to the Democratic Republic of Congo to participate in MONUC, the United Nations peacekeeping mission, and agreed to deploy a United States-trained battalion to Sierra Leone to participate in UNAMSIL, another UN peacekeeping mission.

On December 20, 2000, Bullock and another passenger survived the crash of a chartered business jet during an attempted night landing at Jackson Hole Airport.

On November 13, 2000, another Saeed al-Ghamdi tried to obtain a Visa to enter the United States, but was declined.

In March 1995, Karimov took another step in the same direction by securing a 99 % majority in a referendum on extending his term as president from the prescribed next election in 1997 to 2000.

By comparison, during the same tornado outbreak, more than 2000 homes were completely destroyed, with another 7000 damaged, and yet only a few dozen people died in their homes.