Dates

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Dates

15 October (the fifteenth of October or October the fifteenth)
Monday, 1 January (Monday, the first of January or Monday, January the first)
on 2 February (on the second of February or on February the second)

at the beginning of ...
July

in mid-December

at the end of ...
March

by the end of June

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 17^th century ("the seventeenth century")
the 18^th century ("the eighteenth century")
the 19^th century ("the nineteenth century")
the 20^th century ("the twentieth century")
the 21^st 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