when did 17 century start?

Answer 1

Ist January 1601

Answer 2

1600 AD or 1601 AD depending on which viewpoint you take.

For example:

Those following ordinal year names naturally choose-

2001-2010 as the current decade
2001-2100 as the current century
2001-3000 as the current millennium
Those following cardinal year names equally naturally choose

2000-2009 as the current decade
2000-2099 as the current century
2000-2999 as the current millennium

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VIEWPOINT 1: xx01-xx00

Those holding that the arrival of new millennium should be celebrated in the transition from 2000 to 2001 (i.e. December 31, 2000), argued that since the Gregorian Calendar has no year zero, the millennia should be counted from A.D. 1. Thus the first period of one thousand complete years runs from the beginning of A.D. 1 to the end of A.D. 1000, and the beginning of the second millennium took place at the beginning of 1001. The second millennium thus ends at the end of the year 2000.

Arthur C. Clarke gave this analogy (from a statement received by Reuters): "If the scale on your grocer's weighing machine began at 1 instead of 0, would you be happy when he claimed he'd sold you 10 kg of tea?". This statement illustrates the common confusion about the calendar.

If one counts from the beginning of A.D. 1 to the ending of A.D. 1000, one would have counted 1000 years. The next 1000 years (millennium) would begin on the first day of 1001. In other words, the calendar is not 'cheating' anyone out of a year.

In other words, the argument is based on the fact that the last year of the first two thousand years in the Gregorian Calendar was 2000, not 1999.

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VIEWPOINT 2: xx00-xx99

The "year 2000" has also been a popular phrase referring to an often utopian future, or a year when stories in such a future were set, adding to its cultural significance. There was also media and public interest in the Y2K bug. Thus, the populist argument was that the new millennium should begin when the zeroes of 2000 "rolled over", i.e. December 31, 1999. People felt that the change of hundred digit in the year number, and the zeros rolling over, created a sense that a new century had begun. This is similar to the common demarcation of decades by their most significant digits, e.g. naming the period 1980 to 1989 as the 1980s or "the eighties". Similarly, it would be valid to celebrate the year 2000 as a cultural event in its own right, and name the period 2000 to 2999 as "the 2000s".

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As a means of recording the passage of time, the 17th century was that century which lasted from 1601-1700 in the Gregorian calendar.

Answer 3

00:00 1st January 1601

There was no 0 AD, so the 1st century ran from 1-100, the 2nd ran from 101-200, etc.

So, the 17th century ran from 1601-1700.

Interestingly, that means that the 21st century started in 2001, so all those "end of the millennium" celebrations we had on 31st December 1999 were a year early! LOL

Answer 4

The year 1600 was the end of the 16th century. The year 1601 was the first year of the 17th century.

Answer 5

The correct answer is this: The 17th century started on the 1st of January, 1601.

Answer 6

1600

They count the years from 1-100 B.C. as the 1st century...so it's always one more then the first two numbers of the year...

so - 1900 is the start of the 20th century, 2000 is the start of the 21st Century, 2100 will be the start of the 22nd Century...

Answer 7

year 2000 is 21st century
year 1900 is 20th century
year 1800 is 19th century
year 1700 is 18th century
year 1600 is 17th century on 01/01/1700 at seconds passed midnight.

Answer 8

1601

Answer 9

You need to be a bit careful since various countries made the transition from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar over differing time periods. To which country does the question refer?

Answer 10

1 jenuary 1601