What are the names for the decades?

Sometimes this is shortened to just the decade, where the context is clear, as in the eighties (80s) or the nineties (90s). No apostrophe is used before the s in the names of these decades….Decade.

17th century BC	21st century
1690s BC	2000s
1680s BC	2010s
1670s BC	2020s
1660s BC	2030s

What decades were in the 20th century?

The 20th (twentieth) century began on January 1, 1901, and ended on December 31, 2000. The term is often used erroneously to refer to “the 1900s”, the century between January 1, 1900 and December 31, 1999. It was the tenth and final century of the 2nd millennium.

What is the 2000s decade called?

Aughts
The aughts is a way of referring to the decade 2000 to 2009 in American English. The equivalent term used in British English is the noughties.

What are the names of the decades in the 1900s?

The 1900s (pronounced “nineteen-hundreds”) was a decade of the Gregorian calendar that began on January 1, 1900, and ended on December 31, 1909. The Edwardian era (1901–1910) covers a similar span of time. The term “nineteen-hundreds” is often also used to mean the entire century of years from 1900 to 1999 (see 1900s).

What was last decade called?

2010s
The 2010s (pronounced “twenty-tens”; shortened to “the ’10s”, also known as the tens or the teens) was a decade of the Gregorian calendar that began on 1 January 2010, and ended on 31 December 2019….2010s.

Millennium:	3rd millennium
Categories:	Births Deaths By country By topic Establishments Disestablishments

What is the 90s decade called?

The 1990s (pronounced “nineteen-nineties”; shortened to “the ’90s” or “the Nineties”) was a decade of the Gregorian calendar that began on January 1, 1990, and ended on December 31, 1999….1990s.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Categories:	Births Deaths By country By topic Establishments Disestablishments

How many decades are in the 20th Century?

List of decades, centuries, and millennia

Century	Decades
10th millennium BC · 10,000–9001 BC
20th century	1900s	1950s
3rd millennium · AD 2001–3000
21st century	2000s	2050s

What years are the 21st century?

January 1, 2001 – December 31, 2100
21st century/Periods
The 21st century is the present century of the Gregorian calendar. It began on January 1, 2001 and will last to December 31, 2100, though common usage mistakenly believes January 1, 2000 to December 31, 2099 to hold this distinction.

What are 20 years called?

20 years = 2 Decades. 30 years = 3 Decades. 40 years = 4 Decades. 50 years = 5 Decades or Half a Century and so on.Other words for years are. 100 years = 10 Decades or century.

What is 2020 decade called?

2020s
The 2020s (commonly pronounced “twenty-twenties”; and, like the 1920s, also shortened to the ’20s) is the current decade of the Gregorian calendar, which began on 1 January 2020 and will end on 31 December 2029.

What is 2010 decade called?

The 2010s (pronounced “twenty-tens”; shortened to “the ’10s”, also known as the tens or the teens) was a decade of the Gregorian calendar that began on 1 January 2010, and ended on 31 December 2019. The decade began amid a global financial crisis and subsequent international recession dating from the late 2000s.

What is the name for the 2010 decade?

2010- 2019 is called everything from “the 2010s” to the “teens” to the “teensies.” Things get even weirder for 2000 to 2009. According to timeanddate.com, North American English speakers tend to reference the time period as “the Aughts.” other English speaking countries prefer “the Noughts” or “the Noughties.”

How are popular names by decade determined?

Popular names by decade are determined the same way we determine the popularity of a name during a single year. We count the number of occurrences of each name during the decade, and then rank them in order of decreasing frequency.

What happened in the 20th century in history?

Follow the changes in this decade-by-decade timeline of the 20th century. This decade opened the century with some amazing scientific and technological feats: the first flight by the Wright brothers, Henry Ford’s first Model-T, and Albert Einstein’s Theory of Relativity.

Is the 20th century still our century?

We have now moved in to the 21st century, but for virtually everyone reading here, the 20th century was our century. In this post I am taking images of 4 significant events for each decade of the 20th century. A picture paints a thousand words, so here they are:

How many years are there in the decade AD 0s?

^ AD 0s is not a true decade, as it contains only nine years. See calendar and list of calendars for other groupings of years. See history, history by period, and periodization for different organizations of historical events.