A century is a time span of a 100 years.
Since the dating of the calender after the death of christ, we have been using the word centuty to denote each 100-year period. So from day 1 of ...
The 19th Century is a span of one hundred years, 99 of which are the years 1801 through 1899. There is considerable heated disagreement as to whether the other year is 1800 or 1900. Technically if...
If a women in the 19th century wanted to have a good and secure future, she would have to marry a very wealthy man in order to have a good and happy future.