Despite its name, the Hundred Years' War between England and France was not exactly a century long. How many years passed from its start to its end?
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About 116 years
It was not one continuous war but a series of conflicts broken up by truces, and the name was only invented by historians centuries later.
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This is a subtraction of two conventional dates. The war is usually said to begin in 1337, when Edward III of England claimed the French crown, and to end in 1453 with the French victory at Castillon, the same year Constantinople fell. 1453 - 1337 = 116. The dates are a convention chosen by later historians, but the accepted answer is 116 years.
Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica
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