In honour of the Shahnameh < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s millennial anniversary, in 2010 the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge hosted a major exhibition, called " Epic of the Persian Kings: The Art of Ferdowsi ’ s Shahnameh ", which ran from September 2010 to January 2011.

George VI presided in 1946 ; his successor Elizabeth II presided in 1979 ( the millennial anniversary of Tynwald's establishment ) and again in 2003.

Limited editions of the 500 and 2000 peso oro notes were issued for the 1992 500th anniversary of the discovery of the Americas and year 2000 millennial celebrations, respectively, but not many of these remain in circulation.

In 1874, on the millennial anniversary of the settlement in Iceland, Christian IX became king of Denmark and attended the festivities of the watershed occasion.

The bridge was designed to resist the violent floods of the Tarn River, and indeed it successfully withstood the two terrible millennial floods of 1441 and 1930.

Another name that was popular during this period was the term Tausendjähriges Reich (" Thousand-Year Reich "), the millennial connotations of which suggested that Nazi Germany would last for a thousand years to come ; in reality it was ousted after a mere 12 years.

The Vullers edition was later completed in Tehran by the Iranian scholars S. Nafisi, Iqbal and M. Minowi for the millennial jubilee of Ferdowsi, held between 1934 and 1936.

He established 1914 as the date of Christ's invisible return, asserted that Christ died on a tree rather than a cross, formulated the current Witness concept of Armageddon as God's war on the wicked, and reinforced the belief that the start of Christ's millennial reign was imminent.

Protest activity surrounding the WTO Ministerial Conference of 1999, which was to be the launch of a new millennial round of trade negotiations, occurred on November 30, 1999 ( nicknamed " N30 " on similar lines to J18 and similar mobilizations ), when the World Trade Organization ( WTO ) convened at the Washington State Convention and Trade Center in Seattle, Washington, United States.

A key point of opposition was that the Vilna Gaon maintained that greatness in Torah and observance must come through natural human efforts at Torah study without relying on any external " miracles " and " wonders ", whereas the Ba ' al Shem Tov was more focused on bringing encouragement and raising the morale of the Jewish people, especially following the Chmelnitzki pogroms ( 1648 – 1654 ) and the aftermath of disillusionment in the Jewish masses following the millennial excitement heightened by the failed messianic claims of Sabbatai Zevi and Jacob Frank.

The civil war was marked by millennial prophecies encouraged by the beliefs of some Shi ' as that as-Saffah was the mahdi.

# A Reaction to Eschatological Sensationalism-The millennial fervor of premillennialists as the year AD 500 was nearing caused them to have overly jovial celebrations ( some septa -/ sextamillennial interpreters calculated Jesus ’ s birth to have happened 5, 500 years after creation ).

Although they were not premillennial, the English theologian Daniel Whitby ( 1688 – 1726 ), the German Johann Albrecht Bengel ( 1687 – 1752 ), and the American Jonathan Edwards ( 1703 – 58 ) “ fueled millennial ideas with new influence in the nineteenth century .” It was authors such as these who concluded that the decline of the Roman Catholic Church would make way for the conversion and restoration of the nation of Israel.

It suffices to know that in every epoch or a ( millennial ) period of time there is, and always was a manifestation of God, from the time of Adam, and even before Adam, and till the time of the Final Prophet.

* Millennium was cancelled in 1999, six months short of its millennial climax, so a Virtual Season 4 completed the storyline for fans.

The new cathedral was built from 1956 to 1963 as a part of the millennial celebrations of the episcopal see.

Apocalypticism was especially evident with the approach of the millennial year 2000, in which simultaneous computer crashes, should the software not be corrected, were expected to throw global commerce and financial systems into chaos.

Ron Geaves states that the Divine Light Mission " developed into a vigorous new religious movement with its own specific traits that included characteristics of a contemporary North Indian Sant panth ( sectarian institution ) and nirguna bhakti was combined with intense reverence for the living satguru and millennial expectations of the western counter-culture.

She was featured in Simon Armitage's millennial poem Channel 4 film, directed by Brian Hill and she created the cabaret show " Girl Talk " with Mari Wilson and Claire Martin.

The box, officially the property of the Tenctonese elders, was at one time appropriated illegally by a Tenctonese millennial splinter cult.

Alice Auma ( 1956 – 17 January 2007 ) was an Acholi spirit-medium who, as the head of the Holy Spirit Movement, led a millennial rebellion against the Ugandan government forces of President Yoweri Museveni from August 1986 until November 1987.

On July 20, 1831, Joseph Smith, Jr. identified the location of this New Jerusalem as Jackson County, Missouri and began sending Latter Day Saint settlers there to establish a City of Zion, which was to be a Latter Day Saint millennial kingdom.

Fellow comic Rob Newman called him " a hilarious, anarchic, living legend ; a millennial Falstaff ", while Stewart Lee wrote that " Malcolm Hardee is a natural clown who in any decent country would be a national institution " and Arthur Smith described him as " a South London Rabelais " and claimed that " everything about Malcolm, apart from his stand-up act, was original ".

Munch, and by that time still unchallenged, this year was chosen for the millennial celebration of the unification of the Norwegian state in 1872.

Irenaeus declares that the Antichrist's future three-and-a-half-year reign, when he sits in the temple at Jerusalem, will be terminated by the second advent, with the resurrection of the just, the destruction of the wicked, and the millennial reign of the righteous.

The general resurrection and the judgment follow the descent of the New Jerusalem at the end of the millennial kingdom.

He avers that the millennial kingdom and the resurrection are actualities, not allegories, the first resurrection introducing this promised kingdom in which the risen saints are described as ruling over the renewed earth during the millennium, between the two resurrections.

And he expected the millennial kingdom to begin with the second coming of Christ to destroy the wicked and inaugurate, for the righteous, the reign of the kingdom of God during the seventh thousand years, the millennial Sabbath, as signified by the Sabbath of creation week.

Anthropologist Adam Kuper argued that "' Structuralism ' came to have something of the momentum of a millennial movement and some of its adherents felt that they formed a secret society of the seeing in a world of the blind.

The second coming will be followed by a millennial reign of the saints in heaven.

" Paine " transformed the millennial Protestant vision of the rule of Christ on earth into a secular image of utopia ," emphasizing the possibilities of " progress " and " human perfectibility " that could be achieved by humankind, without God's aid.

Paine takes advantage of several religious rhetorics beyond those associated with Quakerism in The Age of Reason, most importantly a millennial language that appealed to his lower-class readers.

The 1290 days of, ( rather than the 1260 days of ), is thought to be the result of either a simple intercalary leap month adjustment, or due to further calculations related to the prophecy, or due to an intermediate stage of time that is to prepare the world for the beginning of the millennial reign.

* Zippy Annual: A millennial melange of microcephalic malapropisms and metaphysical muzak.

These millennial fables were common and freely traded by the populations on Continental Europe.

The community believed that Jesus had already returned in A. D. 70, making it possible for them to bring about Jesus's millennial kingdom themselves, and be free of sin and perfect in this world, not just Heaven ( a belief called Perfectionism ).

Many converts believed that the Awakening heralded a new millennial age.

The populations of the cities were multi-cultural and received cultural stimuli from many civilizations in the eastern Mediterranean, which resulted in a brilliant society able to make contributions of worldwide and millennial significance.

Rabbi Lord Immanuel Jakobovits, former Chief Rabbi of the United Synagogue of Great Britain, describes the mainstream Jewish view on this issue: " Yes, I do believe that the chosen people concept as affirmed by Judaism in its holy writ, its prayers, and its millennial tradition.

Although he expressed concern over Li's totalizing discourse and millennial themes, Craig Burgdoff writes that such concerns are tempered by the fact that Falun Gong practice does not require unquestioning acceptance of all of Li's teachings, and there is no overt emphasis on dogmatically enforcing orthodoxy, Instead, Burgdoff writes that he found " practitioners to be engaged seriously in a highly disciplined spiritual and ethical practice.

Futurists anticipate many coming events that will fulfill all eschatological prophecy: the seven-year period of tribulation, The Antichrist's global government, the Battle of Armageddon, the Second Coming of Jesus, the millennial reign of Christ, the eternal state, and the two resurrections.

Eusebius held Papias in low esteem, perhaps because of his work's influence in perpetuating, through Irenaeus and others, belief in a millennial reign of Christ upon earth, that would soon usher in a new Golden Age.

In 1998, Garland attracted media attention from a failed millennial prophecy advocated by the Chen Tao (" True Way ") group, which predicted that on March 31, 1998, God would be seen on a single television channel all across North America.

Lutherans do not believe in any sort of earthly millennial kingdom of Christ either before or after his second coming on the last day.

Rabbi Lord Immanuel Jakobovits, former Chief Rabbi of the United Synagogue of Great Britain, describes a commonly held Jewish view on this issue: " Yes, I do believe in the Chosen people concept as affirmed by Judaism in its holy writ, its prayers, and its millennial tradition.