Is this sequence correct?

Question

20th century - 1900 - 2000
19th century - 1800 - 1900
18th century - 1700 - 1800
....
3rd century - 200 - 300
2nd century - 100 - 200
1st century - 1 - 100

1st century BC - 100 BC - 1 AD <<< Is this accurate?

Maus, you mentioned 0 AD. Was there a 0 BC as well? Now I'm really confused...

Questionable, a century lasts for 100 years; 299 minus 200 = 99 years! Could you elaborate?

Answer 1

The 20th century was technically January 1, 1901 - December 31, 2000 and so on down.

1801-1900, 1701-1800, 201-300, 101-200

So, the First Century was, adjusting for calendar changes, January 1, 1 - December 31, 100.

Answer 2

The 21st century begins in 2001, so the 1st century would begin in 1 AD. 1st century BC would end on 0 AD..

Well, only the intelligent get confused, so that's alright. Well, there was 1 BC, right? And that year ended. So it was 0 BC... It ended on 0 BC, or 0 AD, I guess there's no difference between those two. And 0 BC ended, and then at 1 AD, the 1st century started. I guess it's more appropriate to call it 0 BC, because AD started when the first century started.

20th century was from 1901 to 2000. The first year started in January 1901, and ended December that year. The 99th year started on January 1999, and ended on December that year. And there's one more year, right, 2000, before the 21 century starts in 2001. So that makes a 100 years.

Answer 3

Your sequence is correct. About your other question:
let's take an hour for example. It starts with the first minute and ends with the end of the 60th minute, which will start the second hour. A complete hour is between 1.00 and the of 1.59. It's 59.99999999...... minutes, wich is practically 60 miniutes. the same thing could be said about the century. The third century started at 200 and ended by the end of the last of 299, which means 100 years not 99.
There is no Year Zero or Century Zero. It starts always with the "first".

Answer 4

I also have to say that centuries/years cannot begin with zero--it's 1701-1800; 1801-1900, 1901-2000, and so on. The B.C. years, I'm not sure.

Answer 5

ok you sorta got it righ tbut you got the usual thing wrong the century starts at 01 and not 0

1.you should use BCE CE because well, the obvious, christ thing. people really don't like religion nowadays.

2. there is no 0BCE because if you think about it, it doesn't make sense... zero years before the common era? right?

3. there was also no 0CE sorta it just went from one year before christ to one year after christ, and anything that happened the year that jesus died is the year of our lord. and I don't know what the "scientific" term is.

4. you pretty much got it. you know the Da Vinci code actually sorts this out pretty well, : )

don't worry, your not the only person who gets this wrong

Answer 6

You cannot have a year in two centuries.
It is 200 to 299, 300 to 399, and so on.

Answer 7

All of those dates are AD, or CE (common era, for non Crhistians it was changed, means the same thing though). And yes you have the centuries correct too, everything before those dates would be called BC or BCE (before common era).

Answer 8

I believe that it is actually -01 to -00 for each century. -00 can not begin AND end each century.

Answer 9

Bingo!

Answer 10

yup, you got it

ps a lot of places use BCE and CE now too