century

Also known as centenary, centennial, centurial, hundred years, one hundred years

A century is a period of 100 years or 10 decades. Centuries are numbered ordinally in English and many other languages. The word century comes from the Latin centum, meaning one hundred. Century is sometimes abbreviated as c.

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A century is a stretch of 100 years, divided into 10 decades, and the word comes from Latin. Centuries matter as a fundamental way people organize and discuss long stretches of history, using ordinal numbers (like "the 21st century") to mark specific time periods.

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Commons category: Centuries
Wikidata time precision: 7
conversion to standard unit: 3155716800
exact match: www.w3.org/TR/owl-time/#time:unitCentury
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Start and end of centuries
Alternative naming systems
Similar dating units in other calendar systems
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A centennial or centenary is a hundredth anniversary, or a celebration of this, typically the remembrance of an event which took place a hundred years earlier.