Curiously, in 1968 there was nationwide rejoicing in Japan when the nation commemorated the first hundred years since Meiji.
Second the credit crunch had started to hit home and for the first time in more than a hundred years, there had been a run on a British bank with the extraordinary sight of queues of savers lining up outside branches of Northern Rock to extract their cash.
Obama hinted he's even looking beyond his first term, and through the first eight of those next hundred years.
In both registers, the first half of the book, from pre-history through the Dark Ages to the Hundred Years' War, is outstanding.
If he manages to win this year, it is likely to be by less than that, which would make him the first President in a hundred and twenty-four years to win a second term by a smaller margin than in his initial election.
Three hundred years ago, Thomas Twinning opened the first tea shop in London.
Two hundred thousand manufacturing jobs were lost in the first two years.
For more than a hundred years, some scientists have believed the first living things evolved elsewhere, perhaps on Mars, and then stowed away on rocks that made their way here.
Pakistan needed something special and Afridi supplied it to take them to 194-6 before he smacked Mupariwa straight to cover with a first ODI hundred in three years there for the taking.
First conceived nearly one-hundred years ago during the reign of Russian Tsar Nicolas II, the BST would be the longest tunnel in the world - over twice the length of Europe's 30 mile long "Chunnel" linking Britain and France.
It was one hundred years ago that Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen became the first man to reach the South Pole.
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