wat years are the 17th century?

Question

how can you tell? i forgot

Answer 1

1601 - 1699. Because we start the year at zero, thus, 1 - 99 is the first century and so forth. A lot of people mistaken that each century begins at 1600, 1700...2000. It's not. Each century begins at the first year into the century e.g. 1601, 1701...2001.

So can you imagine the whole world celebrated the first millennium change on the wrong year? We should do it on 31 Dec 2000.

Answer 2

The way I find it easiest to remember is by using the fact that we're in the 21st century, and the year begins with 20. So whatever two digits the year begins with (counting year 1 as 0001) just make it one more to know the century.
Taking that the other way, if you know the century, just subtract one to get the first two digits of the years in the century. So the 17th century would contain the years that begin with 16.
Example: 1652 would be the 17th century.
(17 is one more than 16).

Answer 3

The 1600's. From 0 to 100- first century AC, and so on.

Answer 4

The 1600s.

Answer 5

1600-1699 every century take we are are in the 21st century right now so take two zeros add them on to the back of the century number and that is what year you are heading to

Answer 6

from 1600 to 1699

Answer 7

I know it's the 1600's Learned that at school and we are in the 21st century

Answer 8

1600s

this site will help you on finding centuries
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Century