Sleepy Hollow - New Millenia Don't Happen Every Day!
In speech during inquest very early in film (still in New York City), Ichabod Crane remarks that it being 1799, a new *millenium* is at hand. Unless he planned to live another two hundred years, he meant a new *century*.
NO! The twentieth century did not have only 99 years. Depending on how you look at it, it would either include 1900 or 2000, either way making it contain 100 years.
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If Ichabod was using the Gregorian calender,as I assume he was,he wouldn't be
talking about a "new millenium" since 800AD or 200BC. He was indeed confusing
a century with a millenium, so it was a slip-up.
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Also, people living 200 years ago had the amazing ability to actually count, and they knew that the new century started at january 1st, 1801. It was generally agreed that a century consisted of 100 years, not 99 like the 20th century apparently did.
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Sorry to nit pick, but isn't this the place for it? A new millennium happens every second. Just because the year doesn't end in 000 doen't mean a thousand years have happened from some time a thousand years ago
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