What is Bicentennial?
A '''bicentennial''' is the two hundredth [[year]] of something. In the [[United States]], bicentennial is commonly is used to refer to the year [[1976]]. This is because 1976 is two hundred years after the [[country]] was started in [[1776]]. In [[Australia]] it commonly means one of two bicentennials. The first, in [[1970]], was the two hundredth [[anniversary]] of [[James Cook]] finding Australia. The second, in [[1988]] was the two hundredth anniversary of the first white [[Human settlement|settlement]] on the [[continent]]. {{stub}} [[Category:Time]]