Decade Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! PreviewAdvancedSpecial charactersHelpHeadingLevel 2Level 3Level 4Level 5FormatInsertLatinLatin extendedIPASymbolsGreekGreek extendedCyrillicArabicArabic extendedHebrewBanglaTamilTeluguSinhalaDevanagariGujaratiThaiLaoKhmerCanadian AboriginalRunesÁáÀàÂâÄäÃãǍǎĀāĂ㥹ÅåĆćĈĉÇçČčĊċĐđĎďÉéÈèÊêËëĚěĒēĔĕĖėĘęĜĝĢģĞğĠġĤĥĦħÍíÌìÎîÏïĨĩǏǐĪīĬĭİıĮįĴĵĶķĹĺĻļĽľŁłŃńÑñŅņŇňÓóÒòÔôÖöÕõǑǒŌōŎŏǪǫŐőŔŕŖŗŘřŚśŜŝŞşŠšȘșȚțŤťÚúÙùÛûÜüŨũŮůǓǔŪūǖǘǚǜŬŭŲųŰűŴŵÝýŶŷŸÿȲȳŹźŽžŻżÆæǢǣØøŒœßÐðÞþƏəFormattingLinksHeadingsListsFilesDiscussionReferencesDescriptionWhat you typeWhat you getItalic''Italic text''Italic textBold'''Bold text'''Bold textBold & italic'''''Bold & italic text'''''Bold & italic textDescriptionWhat you typeWhat you getReferencePage text.<ref>[https://www.example.org/ Link text], additional text.</ref>Page text.[1]Named referencePage text.<ref name="test">[https://www.example.org/ Link text]</ref>Page text.[2]Additional use of the same referencePage text.<ref name="test" />Page text.[2]Display references<references />↑ Link text, additional text.↑ Link text=== 0-to-9 decade === The most widely used method for denominating decades is to group years based on their shared tens digit, from a year ending in a 0 to a year ending in a 9{{snd}} for example, the period from 1960 to 1969 is the 1960s, and the period from 1970 to 1979 is the 1970s. Sometimes, only the tens part is mentioned (''{{`}}60s'' or ''sixties'', and ''{{`}}70s'' or ''seventies''), although this may leave it ambiguous as to which [[century]] is meant. However, this method of grouping decades cannot be applied to the decade immediately preceding AD{{nbs}}10, because there was no year 0. Referring to ten-year periods as decades in this way only became common in the late 19th century.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://learningenglish.voanews.com/a/a-23-2010-01-20-voa1-84659222/117631.html|title=Now We're Past the, Uh, First Decade, What Do We Call the Next One|publisher=Learning English|language=English|date=20 January 2010|accessdate=2 January 2022}}</ref> Particularly in the 20th century, ''0-to-9'' decades came to be referred to with associated nicknames, such as the "[[Roaring Twenties]]" ([[1920s]]), the "Warring Forties" ([[1940s]]), and the "[[Swinging Sixties]]" ([[1960s]]). This practice is occasionally also applied to decades of earlier centuries; for example, referencing the [[1890s]] as the "[[Gay Nineties]]" or "Naughty Nineties". Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page