8th millennium

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The eighth millennium of the Gregorian calendar will begin on January 1, 7001, and end on December 31, 8000.

Astronomical events

All these dates are in a uniform time scale such as Terrestrial Time. When converted to our ordinary solar time or Universal Time, which is decidedly non-uniform, via ΔT, the dates would be about one day earlier.

• 7016 October 3: Mean solar time and atomic time will be one day apart.
• 7152 September 11: Mars occults Regulus.
• ~7200: The Gregorian calendar is one day out of step with the vernal equinox.
• 7256 October 12: Mercury occults Regulus.
• 7276 September 19: Venus occults Regulus.
• 7278 September 15: Mars occults Regulus.
• 7321 December 21: Venus occults Regulus.
• 7404 September 20: Mars occults Regulus.
• 7541 February 14: Jupiter occults Saturn.
• 7541 June 18: Jupiter occults Saturn.
• 7565 October 17: Mercury occults Regulus.
• ~7800: Plutoid 90377 Sedna will pass its aphelion in the decades around the year 7800.
• 7874 October 22: Mercury occults Regulus.

Science predictions

• 7800: Formation of a Type III Civilization under the Kardashev scale, according to Kardashev's extrapolation of 1% energy usage growth per year.

Fiction

• 7603, Anno 7603 comedy play takes place.
• The events of Ergo Proxy are believed to be set in the year 7207 after the Earth had been destroyed five thousand years earlier.
• 7000-7500, Scrapped Princess.
• Xenosaga takes place between 7100 and 7300, with the first game taking place in 7276.
• The events of Part 3 of Seveneves occur approximately 5000 years after the early-21st-century destruction of the Moon and subsequent destruction of all life on Earth by bolide bombardment.

Music

• The song "In the Year 2525" by Zager and Evans predicts that by the year 7510, God will have already commenced Judgement Day, or will soon.

References

• "Simultaneous Transits by Meeus and Vitagliano" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-07-10. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help) (315 KiB)
• Conjunctions of Regulus and the planets Template:De icon
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• EVE Online Gallentean Timeline