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definition
A 200th anniversary
Examples of bicentenary in a Sentence
The academy of sciences, founded in 1872, celebrated the bicentenary of the raising of the siege of Vienna by Sobieski by publishing the valuable Acta Joannis' III.
The Journal was originally published in London in 1694; the edition known as the Bicentenary Edition, with notes biographical and historical (reprint of 1901 or later), will be found the most useful in practice.
To celebrate the bicentenary a water pump was erected in the small market place in Westgate where he preached the Methodist doctrine.
Bronze plates were attached to the guns in 1926 to commemorate the bicentenary of Roy's birth.
A timeless classic for children aged five and above and their families to mark the bicentenary of Andersen's birth.
A controversial antislavery pamphlet has been republished in advance of next year's bicentenary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act.
Tell us about your most memorable filming disaster. âIt has to be when we were filming Pebble Mill for the Australian bicentenary.
This year [2002] sees the bicentenary of the birth of Hugh Miller at Cromarty on October 10th 1802.
SeaBritain 2005 SeaBritain 2005 was a national celebration on a grand scale inspired by the bicentenary of the Battle of Trafalgar.
Land for the Spinoza Memorial Committee formed in Holland to celebrate the bicentenary of the philosopher's death appeared in 1882 and was reissued in three volumes in 1895.
Pollock and Fraser at the bicentenary commemoration by the British Academy of Locke's death, published in the Proceedings of the Academy (1904).
The Baptist Society celebrated its centenary in 1892; the London Missionary Society (Congregational) did the same in 1895; the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge kept its bicentenary in 1898; the Church Missionary Society its centenary in 1899; the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel its bicentenary in 1900-1901; and the British and Foreign Bible Society its centenary in 1904.