Centenary

Centenary, consisting of a hundred (Lat. centum), a period of a hundred years, is now usually employed to signify a commemoration of an event, as the birth (sometimes the death) of a great man. The centenary of Burns's birth was celebrated in 1859; the bi-centenary of Pope in 1888; the ter-centenary of Shakespeare in 1864. The centenary of American Independence was celebrated by a Centennial Exhibition in 1876; the octo-centenary of the Bologna University in 1888.