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List of decades, centuries, and millennia. The list below includes links to articles with further details for each decade, century, and millennium from 15,000 BC to AD 3000. Century. Decades. 15th millennium BC · 15,000–14,001 BC. 14th millennium BC · 14,000–13,001 BC. 13th millennium BC · 13,000–12,001 BC. 12th millennium BC · 12,000 ...
General periods. Geologic Time – Period prior to humans. 4.6 billion to 3 million years ago. (See "prehistoric periods" for more detail into this.) Primatomorphid Era – Period prior to the existence of Primatomorpha. Simian Era – Period prior to the existence of Simiiformes. Hominoid Era – Period prior to the existence of Hominoidea.
Maria Branyas (born 4 March 1907) of Spain is the world's oldest living person whose age has been validated. [ 2] John Tinniswood (born 26 August 1912) of the United Kingdom is the world's oldest living man whose age has been validated. [ 2]
Historically, many units of time were defined by the movements of astronomical objects. Sun-based: the year was the time for the Earth to revolve around the Sun. Historical year-based units include the Olympiad (four years), the lustrum (five years), the indiction (15 years), the decade, the century, and the millennium.
Century-old Bible reunited with original owners' family after more than 50 years. Gannett. ... than a century old will soon be in the hands ... race for 5th time and 4th in 5 years. Weather.
Thus for the example of 175 years, the term is a quarter century less than the next whole (bi)century or 175 = (−25 + 200). [ 1 ] In Latin, it seems that this rule did not apply precisely for 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 .
These are lists of the 100 known verified oldest women and men sorted in descending order by age in years and days. [ a] The oldest person ever whose age has been independently verified is Jeanne Calment (1875–1997) of France, who lived to the age of 122 years and 164 days. [ b] The oldest verified man ever is Jiroemon Kimura (1897–2013) of ...
According to the strict construction, the 1st century AD, which began with AD 1, ended with AD 100, and the 2nd century with AD 200; [note 1] in this model, the n-th century starts with a year that follows a year with a multiple of 100 (except the first century as it began after the year 1 BC) and ends with the next coming year with a multiple ...