centenary

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

From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026

Hassan Perez, a historian, former student leader and close collaborator of Castro, acknowledged that the centenary was arriving under "the most complex conditions that could have been imagined."

From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026

Ahmedabad in the west of India is set to host the centenary Commonwealth Games in 2030.

From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026

Founders appear at centenary celebrations and sign pledges to “common prosperity.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 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

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

"We will see many centenaries this year and next in the run-up to the centenary of the end of the First World War," he said.

From BBC ● Nov. 28, 2017

The Ruders, a joint commission by the Britten-Pears Foundation and the Royal Philharmonic Society in honour of their various centenaries and bicentenaries, was delightful from beginning to end.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 11, 2013

Their pay, most probably of a month, was computed at thirty-four centenaries of gold, about one hundred and thirty-six thousand pounds sterling.

From History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5 by Henry Hart Milman