To help compare orders of magnitude of different times this page lists times between 1010 seconds and 1011 seconds (320 years and 3200 years). See also times of other orders of magnitude.
- Shorter times
- 330 years—duration of the Mughal Empire in India.
- 331 years—duration of the Plantagenet dynasty in England.
- 360 years—one divine year in Hindu mythology
- 367 years—length of the Roman occupation of Britain
- 394.256 years (144,000 days)—one baktun in the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar
- 403 years—duration of the Hohenzollern monarchy in Brandenburg, Prussia, and Germany
- 460 years—duration of the Russian Empire.
- 507 years—duration of the Roman Empire
- 519 years—approximate duration of the Kingdom of France (length of time between the centralisation of the French state under King Louis IX and the end of the Monarchy in the French Revolution).
- 790 years—approximate duration of Zhou Dynasty (c.1046 BC - 256 BC), the longest dynasty in Chinese history.
- 844 years—duration of the Holy Roman Empire
- 864 years—duration of the Kingdom of Scotland
- 969 years—alleged age of Methuselah at death
- 1000 years—one millennium = 3.16 x 1010 seconds*
- 1053 years—duration of the Byzantine Empire.
- 1292 years—collective duration of the various Islamic Caliphates.
- 1460 years—length of the Sothic cycle; the time it took the ancient Egyptian calendar to realign with the heliacal rising of Sirius.
- 2122 years—duration of the Chinese Empire
- 3100 years—duration of the rule of the Pharoahs in Ancient Egypt
Elapsed time
- 354 years—time (in 2009) since the completion of the Taj Mahal.
- 379 years—age (in 2009) of the Massachusetts General Court, oldest continuous extant elected assembly
- 398 years—age of the King James Bible. Also time since the completion of Shakespeare's last solo play, The Tempest.
- 402 years—time (in 2009) since the founding of the Colony of Virginia.
- 440 years—approximate age of Thomas Tallis' 40-part motet Spem in alium
- 488 years—time (in 2009) since the first accredited circumnavigation of the Earth.
- 497 years—time (in 2009) since Michelangelo Buonarotti completed his painting of the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel
- 517 years—time (in 2009) since Christopher Columbus reached the New World
- 554 years—time (in 2009) since the printing of the first Gutenberg Bible.
- 555 years—oldest surviving printing by movable type
- 609 years—time (in 2009) since the completion of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
- 685 years (approximately) -- age of Dante Aligheri's Divine Comedy
- 817 years (in 2009) since the return of Marco Polo to Italy from China
- 1054 years—time (in 2009) since the creation of England.
- 1140 years—age of Varangian settlements and influence in Russia
- 1427 years—time since the Hegira
- 1533 years—time since the Fall of the Roman Empire in the west.
- 1550 years (approximately) -- time since the Anglo-Saxon invasion of Britain
- 1930 years—time since the volcanic destruction of Pompeii (79AD)
- 1931 years—The year 2009 in the Indian Saka calendar
- 1939 years—time since the destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem by the Romans (70 AD)
- 1977 years—time since the latest possible date for the Crucifixion.
- 2009 years—time, in 2009, since the birth of Jesus Christ, according to the calculations of Dionysius Exiguus. Current year in the Gregorian calendar
- 2056 years—time since the assassination of Julius Caesar.
- 2144 years—time (in 2009) since the Roman destruction of Carthage at the end of the Third Punic War.
- 2332 years—time (in 2009) since the death of Alexander the Great.
- 2408 years—time (in 2009) since the death of Socrates.
- 2439 years—age of the Parthenon as a completed building (432 BC)
- 2488 years—time since the death of Confucius (479 BC)
- 2492 years- approximate time in 2009 since the death of Gautama Buddha
- 2500 years (approximately) age of Euclid's Elements
- 2593 years—time since the destruction of the First Temple in Jerusalem (Solomon's Temple) by the Babylonians (586 BCE)
- 2669 years-purported time in 2009 since the accession of Jimmu, the mythical first Emperor of Japan
- 2750 years—approximate time since the composition of the Iliad and the Odyssey
- 2762 years—time since the legendary founding of Rome (753 BC)
Half lives
- 351 years -- half-life of californium-249
- 418 years—half life of silver-108
- 432.2 years—half life of americium-241
- 680 years—half life of niobium-91
- 898 years—half life of californium-251
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See also
time periods in the order of 1010 - 1011 seconds in the past
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