sesquicentennial in English
noun
1
a one-hundred-and-fiftieth anniversary.
He performed at Harold Washington's mayoral inauguration in 1987, at Washington's funeral, and at Chicago's sesquicentennial .
adjective
1
of or relating to the one-hundred-and-fiftieth anniversary of a significant event.
The University of Michigan Medical School this year celebrates its sesquicentennial anniversary.
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2. And it is the sesquicentennial of the book next year, along with the bicentennial of Darwin's birth, which will be more widely marked than the 1858 event.