centenary

Ahmedabad in the west of India is set to host the centenary Commonwealth Games in 2030.

From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026

He resurfaced, conspicuously, at the Communist Party’s centenary celebration in Tiananmen Square the following summer.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

Qualification will be absurdly easy - Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay are already there as hosts, staging one game each as a gesture of celebration for the World Cup centenary.

From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026

Monroe’s centenary arrives this month amid a push to re-establish her as a serious actress and a multidimensional person.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026

There was also, poignantly now, a slender, hardbound history of Centralia, prepared to mark the town’s centenary just before the outbreak of the fire.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson

The festival was bookended by two comedies celebrating their centenaries: Charlie Chaplin’s “The Gold Rush” and Buster Keaton’s “Go West.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 17, 2025

It celebrates the centenaries of two laws that enfranchised some British women and gave those over 21 the right to stand for Parliament.

From Economist ● Apr. 19, 2018

"We will see many centenaries this year and next in the run-up to the centenary of the end of the First World War," he said.

From BBC ● Nov. 28, 2017

The Ruders, a joint commission by the Britten-Pears Foundation and the Royal Philharmonic Society in honour of their various centenaries and bicentenaries, was delightful from beginning to end.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 11, 2013

Haller had collected the cases of many centenaries, amounting to sixty-two who had reached from 100 to 120; twenty-nine from 120 to 130; and fifteen from 130 to 140.

From Curiosities of Medical Experience by Millingen, J. G. (John Gideon)