Dates and months are always written with capital letters.

Dates are expressed by ordinary numbers.

Dates are written and read out as follow:

Written:

• He died on 5 May 1974. <BrE>
• He died on May 5th 1974. <AmE>

Spoken:

• He died on the fifth of May, nineteen seventy-four.
• He died on May the fifth, nineteen seventy-four. < BrE>
• He died on May fifth, nineteen seventy-four. <AmE>

The year: when reading or speaking we use the term hundred but not thousand

• 1987: nineteen hundred and eighty-seven or nineteen eighty-seven.
• 1500 B.C.: one thousand five hundred B.C. or fifteen hundred B.C.

prepositions
• In September
• On 22nd
• From 9 am to 5.30 pm (09.00 – 17.30)
• In 2 weeks/within 2 weeks

Time expressions

• Over the course of the 19th century
• Over the years
• over five decades

• Dating back to
• Date from the second decade of the 17th century
• dating from the late 1920s through 1970
• To date from the years toward 1620 (data dal 1620 circa; attorno al 1620)
• To date smt to the years after 1610

• from October 22, 2004 through February 6, 2005
• From 1620 on

• Currently on view through January 8, 2006
• Around 1620 (intorno al 1620)
• until

• during the 1950s