why is it called 21st century if we are still in 2006?

Question

shouldn´t it be 20th century?

Answer 1

You have to remember that the first century was from year 0001 to 0100. Once you reached year 0101 you were actually beginning the 2nd century. Once the year 2000 ended that was then end of the 20th century. 2000 years divided by 100 equals 20 centuries. The year 2001 began the 21st century.

Similar to the millennium fiasco. Millennium's encompass one thousand years. The 1st millennium was from year 0001 to 1000. Year 1001 began the "New Millennium". Just like the year 2001 was the beginning of the current millennium, not the year 2000 when everyone was prematurely celebrating the new millennium.

Answer 2

The 21st century is the present century of the Gregorian calendar. It began on 1 January 2001 and will last to 31 December 2100. Technologically it is different from the 20th Century mostly by changes brought about by the Digital Revolution of the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s.

Answer 3

Twenty(20) complete centuries have come to pass in the modern calender called A.D. ( Anno Domine,year of the Lord) by Christians and C.E. (Common Era) by those who do not wish to profess Christianity. The word Century means a group of one hundred(100). When we begin counting whole numbers we begin with the number ONE(1). We may continue counting forever. Once we have counted to one hundred(100) that is a century. The first century would be all the numbers from one(1) to one hundred(100). The second century, or group of one hundred(100), would begin with one hundred one(101).

If you have already eaten twenty(20) cookies and begin another would you say you are eating your twentieth or your twenty-first cookie. Of course you would say the twenty-first becasue you have already finished twenty complete cookies!

Since we have already finished twenty complete centuries, on this arbitrary time scale, we are now in the twenty-first (21st) century. As of 11:59:59 P.M. December 31st ,2000 we passed from the 20th century to the 21st century which began immediately after 12:00 on January 1, 2001.

Answer 4

The year 1 would be the first century. It would continue to be the first century until the year 101 which begins the second century.

The year 101 begins the 2nd century
The year 201 begins the 3rd century.

The year 2001 begins the 21st century.

The reason the number is ahead one is because you start counting during the first 100 years which is actually zero. :)

It is similar to saying a woman is in her 5th month when she is only 4.5 months pregnant. :)

I hope this clears it up for you.

Answer 5

If it was the year 6 (0006) then is would be the 1st Century. Therefore, anytime from 0 - 99 would be the 1st Century. The period 100 - 199 would be the 2nd Century.

Answer 6

The first century was the years between 0-100. Second was 100-200, etc.

Answer 7

These are the years that count down to the 21st century.

Any time you hear a time period refered to as such and such century it is always speaking of the hundred years leading up to that number.

The 18th century was really the 17 hundreds.

Answer 8

Because we are living the 21st century. When you turn 20 years old you start living the 21st year of your life.

Answer 9

Current Century=Current Century + 1

Sence we started in the zeroth Century!

Answer 10

because this is the 21st century say in simple terms that it was year 6 we'd be in the first century no.