2009
2009 (MMIX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2009th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 9th year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 10th and last year of the 2000s decade.
| Millennium: | 3rd millennium |
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| Years: |
| Gregorian calendar | 2009 MMIX |
| Ab urbe condita | 2762 |
| Armenian calendar | 1458 ԹՎ ՌՆԾԸ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6759 |
| Baháʼí calendar | 165–166 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1930–1931 |
| Bengali calendar | 1416 |
| Berber calendar | 2959 |
| British Regnal year | 57 Eliz. 2 – 58 Eliz. 2 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2553 |
| Burmese calendar | 1371 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7517–7518 |
| Chinese calendar | 戊子年 (Earth Rat) 4706 or 4499 — to — 己丑年 (Earth Ox) 4707 or 4500 |
| Coptic calendar | 1725–1726 |
| Discordian calendar | 3175 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 2001–2002 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5769–5770 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 2065–2066 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1930–1931 |
| - Kali Yuga | 5109–5110 |
| Holocene calendar | 12009 |
| Igbo calendar | 1009–1010 |
| Iranian calendar | 1387–1388 |
| Islamic calendar | 1430–1431 |
| Japanese calendar | Heisei 21 (平成２１年) |
| Javanese calendar | 1941–1942 |
| Juche calendar | 98 |
| Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 13 days |
| Korean calendar | 4342 |
| Minguo calendar | ROC 98 民國98年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | 541 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2552 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阳土鼠年 (male Earth-Rat) 2135 or 1754 or 982 — to — 阴土牛年 (female Earth-Ox) 2136 or 1755 or 983 |
| Unix time | 1230768000 – 1262303999 |
| 2009 by topic |
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2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Johannes Kepler. It was also declared as the International Year of Natural Fibres by the United Nations General Assembly, as well as the International Year of Reconciliation and the Year of the Gorilla (UNEP and UNESCO).
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