noun
definition
The 300th anniversary of an event
adjective
definition
Of or relative to such an anniversary, or to a span of 300 years
Examples of tercentenary in a Sentence
At the tercentenary of " Bishop Morgan's Bible " in 1888 a national movement of appreciation was set on foot amongst Welshmen of all denominations both at home and abroad, with the result that XXVIII.
The discontinued Harveian Institution for young men was named after William Harvey, discoverer of the circulation of the blood, a native of Folkestone (1578), who is also commemorated by a tercentenary memorial on the Lees.
When in 1817 he went abroad to further his education, Germany was about to celebrate the tercentenary of the Reformation; and thus early he conceived the ambition to write the history of that great epoch.
In 1909 a great celebration of the tercentenary was held in the United States.
In late 1988 it returned to The Dale, Chester, to celebrate the tercentenary on the Roodee in 1989.
To commemorate the tercentenary in 1989, the County Boroughs each presented a bench seat and the Regiment commissioned new gates.
For example, in 1990 the Orange Order held a special parade in Belfast to mark the tercentenary of the Battle of the Boyne.
He was sincerely religious; but his wellmeant efforts to unite the Lutheran and Reformed Churches, in celebration of the tercentenary of the Reformation (1817), revealed the limits of his paternal power; eleven years passed in vain attempts to devise common formulae; a stubborn Lutheran minority had to be coerced by military force, the confiscation of their churches and the imprisonment or exile of their pastors; not till 1834 was outward union secured on the basis of common worship but separate symbols, the opponents of the measure being forbidden to form communities of their own.
This year the Conference welcomed guests from 61 partner churches following a World Church consultation marking the tercentenary of the birth of John Wesley.
In late 1988 it returned to The Dale, Chester, to celebrate the Tercentenary on the Roodee in 1989.
To commemorate the Tercentenary in 1989, the County Boroughs each presented a bench seat and the Regiment commissioned new gates.
For example, in 1990 the Orange Order held a special parade in Belfast to mark the Tercentenary of the Battle of the Boyne.
During the tercentenary celebrations of 1884, Louis Pasteur visited Edinburgh University.
Today, in Wesley 's tercentenary year, his Methodist following numbers 33 million throughout.
The tercentenary was celebrated in 1908.