centenary

Patrice Chéreau’s 1976 Bayreuth centenary staging, for many still the cycle’s definitive modern vision, found a parable of industrial capitalism and class conflict inside Wagner’s myth.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

The announcement comes in England Netball's centenary year.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

Sir Henry Wood composed the melody for the centenary of the Battle of Trafalgar in 1905.

From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026

US-indicted Cuban leader Raul Castro received a standing ovation as he appeared in public for the first time in months Thursday, attending an event in Havana to mark the centenary of his brother Fidel's birth.

From Barron's ● Aug. 13, 2026

There was also, poignantly now, a slender, hardbound history of Centralia, prepared to mark the town’s centenary just before the outbreak of the fire.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson

The festival was bookended by two comedies celebrating their centenaries: Charlie Chaplin’s “The Gold Rush” and Buster Keaton’s “Go West.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 17, 2025

With 2019 short on big musical centenaries, the 150th anniversary of the death of Berlioz features prominently.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 1, 2019

It celebrates the centenaries of two laws that enfranchised some British women and gave those over 21 the right to stand for Parliament.

From Economist ● Apr. 19, 2018

The World War One and Dylan Thomas centenaries will also be reflected.

From BBC ● Apr. 18, 2014

The centenaries are called companions by Tacitus, after the custom of the Romans; among whom the titles of honor were, Caesar, the Legatus or Lieutenant of Caesar, and his comites, or companions.

From The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus by Cornelius Tacitus