1999

1999 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar	1999; MCMXCIX
Ab urbe condita	2752
Armenian calendar	1448; ԹՎ ՌՆԽԸ
Assyrian calendar	6749
Baháʼí calendar	155–156
Balinese saka calendar	1920–1921
Bengali calendar	1405–1406
Berber calendar	2949
British Regnal year	47 Eliz. 2 – 48 Eliz. 2
Buddhist calendar	2543
Burmese calendar	1361
Byzantine calendar	7507–7508
Chinese calendar	戊寅年 (Earth Tiger); 4696 or 4489; — to —; 己卯年 (Earth Rabbit); 4697 or 4490
Coptic calendar	1715–1716
Discordian calendar	3165
Ethiopian calendar	1991–1992
Hebrew calendar	5759–5760
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	2055–2056
- Shaka Samvat	1920–1921
- Kali Yuga	5099–5100
Holocene calendar	11999
Igbo calendar	999–1000
Iranian calendar	1377–1378
Islamic calendar	1419–1420
Japanese calendar	Heisei 11; (平成１１年)
Javanese calendar	1931–1932
Juche calendar	88
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar	4332
Minguo calendar	ROC 88; 民國88年
Nanakshahi calendar	531
Thai solar calendar	2542
Tibetan calendar	ས་ཕོ་སྟག་ལོ་; (male Earth-Tiger); 2125 or 1744 or 972; — to —; ས་མོ་ཡོས་ལོ་; (female Earth-Hare); 2126 or 1745 or 973
Unix time	915148800 – 946684799

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The Columbine High School massacre becomes one of the deadliest school shootings in the United States;
the Second Chechen War begins as Russian forces enter Chechnya;
global concern grows over the year 2000 problem affecting computer systems;
the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia escalates the Kosovo War;
the Vargas tragedy devastates Venezuela, killing 10,000-30,000;
the 1999 Russian apartment bombings trigger a major security crisis and kill 300+;
the Kargil War erupts between India and Pakistan over Kashmir;
the 1999 Martha's Vineyard plane crash kills John F. Kennedy Jr., Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, and their sister-in-law;
Pokémania sparks a worldwide craze for Pokémon.

1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1999th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 999th year of the 2nd millennium, the 99th year of the 20th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1990s decade.