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year numbering, which are numerically equivalent, are now commonly used to number years, including those which occurred before these notations were invented; AD did not become widespread in Europe until early in the 2nd
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While the century has been commonly used in the West, other cultures and calendars have utilized differently sized groups of years in a similar manner. The
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or centenary is a hundredth anniversary, or a celebration of this, typically the remembrance of an event which took place a hundred years earlier.
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Informally, years may be referred to in groups based on the hundreds part of the year. In this system, the years 1900–1999 are referred to as the
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In popular perception and practice, centuries are structured by grouping years based on sharing the 'hundreds' digit(s). In this model, the
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and mainly also referring to the years 1601–1700 rather than 1600–1699; according to
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To facilitate calendrical calculations by computer, the
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Although a century can mean any arbitrary period of 100
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may refer to either the years 1501–1600 or 1500–1599.
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According to the strict construction, the 1st century
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Index

Centenaries
Century (disambiguation)
Centuries (disambiguation)
years
decades
ordinally
Latin
centennial
years
AD
AD 1
AD 100
200
1 BC
popular culture
"0-to-9 decades"
astronomical year numbering
ISO 8601
year zero
2 BC
1 BC
1
2
99
100
101
102
199
200
201

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