What century are we in and how do you tell?

Answer 1

Relative to what? The age of the Earth? Universe? Mankind?

According to the Gregorian callendar we are in the 21st century.

Answer 2

If we could travel back in time to the year 1

this is in the first hundred years of the calendar number line (yes I know there was the before time and all but just think number line for now)

year 0 even ... year 1 all the way up to year 100 are in the first century

so year 101 to 200 are the second century

year 1901 to 2000 are the 20th century (you take the hundreds and thousands columns and add one to it).

Why do we add one? Because we started counting from one in the first century.

Answer 3

The century is actually a listing of which one hundred years you are in a specific calender.

If you are looking for the gregorian calender it would be 21'st century now as we are less than 2100.

If you are referencing the Julian calender it would be the year 6719 with the century mark of 68th century.

If you are referencing the Islamic calender you would use the year 1427 or the century marker 15.

For the Chinese calender you would use 4704 as the year and 48th century.

For the Hebrew calender you would use 5677 for the year and 57th century.

Old roman calender would be 2759 for the year and 28th century.

For the Buddhist calender it would be 2550 for the year or 26th century.

And Coptic calender would be 1722 for the year or 18th century.

Please note these are just a few examples, and time is always relative to the observer!

Answer 4

A century is 100 years. years 1-100 was the first century. we are currently in year 2006, which means we are in the 21st century. in 2100 will be the 22nd century and so on.

Answer 5

21st century. Years 1 A.D to 100 A.D. was the first century, 101A.D to 200 A.D. was the second and so on. Drop the last two zeroes of the last year of the century and you will get the century.

Answer 6

These people measure their time from the Year of the Birth of Our Lord Jesus Christ.
Many different cultures invented various measurements that were based upon the phases of the Moon.

These made the months

Those months were then fit into the mythology of Peoples that the Church tried to educate.
The Months, then reflected either a significant god or goddess, or how the month fit into the divisions by their Latin names (September, November, December, October).

Then you start to count the years, the decades ("deca" is ten), and centuries ("cent" is at one in one hundred)

DIFFERENT PEOPLES MEASURE FROM DIFFERENT TIMES. LOOK UP CHINESE AND SEE WHAT YEAR WE ARE IN, OR HEBREW, AND SEE WHAT YEAR WE ARE IN.

The key is that things have been measured long before the Birth of Christ.

Ask any Egyptian living 4,000 years ago, and looking out over skyscrapers and enjoying a cold beer or wine.

You call it 2006
Other people call it something else

Answer 7

It is 2006 now. If you are refering to this calendar date.
Century is a hundred years. So there are 20 hundred years. Meaning we are on the 6th year of the 20th Century.
that is 6 + (20 X 100) ...2006

Answer 8

21st, and the way to tell is to divide one more than the year (by common era calendar) by 100, and add one to the quotient. (Ignore the remainder.) The year 1 C.E. was the first year of the first century.

Answer 9

21th century I just learned this a couple weeks ago in my hist 112 class. anything before 2000 was the 20th century

Answer 10

21st century
as year2000 has already finished