Asking the date
| what's the date today? | |
| what's today's date? |
Dates
Years
| 1984 ("nineteen eighty-four") | |
| 2000 ("the year two thousand") | |
| 2005 ("two thousand and five") | |
| 2018 ("twenty eighteen") | |
| in 2007 ("in two thousand and seven") | |
| 44 BC — death of Julius Caesar | |
| 79 AD or AD 79 — eruption of Vesuvius | |
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Centuries
| the 17th century ("the seventeenth century") | |
| the 18th century ("the eighteenth century") | |
| the 19th century ("the nineteenth century") | |
| the 20th century ("the twentieth century") | |
| the 21st century ("the twenty-first century") |
Some famous dates
| 1066 Battle of Hastings | |
| 1776 US Declaration of Independence | |
| 1939-1945 Second World War | |
| 1989 Fall of the Berlin Wall | |
| 2012 London Olympics |