The earliest such unit was the Swiss Hundred Guard ( Cent Suisses ) at the French court ( 1497 – 1830 ).

There were two different corps of Swiss mercenaries performing guard duties for the Kings of France: the Hundred Swiss ( Cent Suisses ), serving within the Palace as essentially bodyguards and ceremonial troops, and the Swiss Guards ( Gardes Suisses ), guarding the entrances and outer perimeter.

In the Battle of Pavia ( 1525 ) the Hundred Swiss of King Francis I were slain before Francis was captured by the Spanish.

The Hundred Swiss shared the indoor guard with the King's Bodyguards ( Garde du Corps ), who were Frenchmen.

The Hundred Swiss were armed with halberds, the blade of which carried the Royal arms in gold, as well as gold-hilted swords.

The Hundred Swiss accompanied Louis XVIII into exile in Belgium the following year and returned with him to Paris following Waterloo.

Use of the white cross as a military ensign ( attached to the cantonal flags in the form of strips of linen ) has been used in the Old Swiss Confederacy since the 14th century, but the modern design of a white cross suspended in a square red field was introduced only during the Napoleonic period, first used in 1800 during the Hundred Days by general Niklaus Franz von Bachmann, and was introduced as official national flag in 1889.

During the 14th and 15th centuries the chivalric idea of a noble " knight " clashed with new more deadly forms of warfare, as seen during the Hundred Years ' War, when peasants armed with longbows could cut down knights anonymously from a distance, breaking traditional rules of chivalry ; and cavalry charges could be broken by pikemen formations introduced by the Swiss.

The fictional Hundred Acre Wood of the Pooh stories derives from Five Hundred Acre Wood in Ashdown Forest in East Sussex, South East England, where the Pooh stories were set.

The Hundred Schools of Thought were philosophers and schools that flourished from 770 to 221 BC, an era of great cultural and intellectual expansion in China.

The Hundred Schools of Thought of Chinese philosophy blossomed during this period, and such influential intellectual movements as Confucianism, Taoism, Legalism and Mohism were founded, partly in response to the changing political world.

* The political focus: most scholars of the Hundred Schools were trying to convince the ruler to behave in the way they defended.

It was not until the German Army had been forced to retreat in the Hundred Days Offensive of 1918, that cavalry were again able to operate in their intended role.

The first cannon in Europe were probably used in Iberia in the 11 and 12th centuries, and English cannon were first deployed in the Hundred Years ' War, at the Battle of Crécy, in 1346.

They elected the Council of Four Hundred from among their number ; nine Archons and the Treasurers were drawn from persons possessing an unencumbered property of not less than ten minas, the generals ( strategoi ) and commanders of cavalry ( hipparchoi ) from those who could show an unencumbered property of not less than a hundred minas, and had children born in lawful wedlock over ten years of age.

The deathly horrors of the 14th century — such as recurring famines ; the Hundred Years ' War in France ; and, most of all, the Black Death — were culturally assimilated throughout Europe.

International excursions around that time were invariably against domestic neighbours: the Welsh, Irish, Cornish, and the Hundred Years ' War against the French and their Scottish allies.

The longbow decided many medieval battles fought by the English, the most significant of which were the Battle of Crécy ( 1346 ) and the Battle of Agincourt ( 1415 ), during the Hundred Years ' War and followed earlier successes, notably at the Battle of Halidon Hill ( 1333 ) during the Scottish wars.

When in Florence Leonardo and Michelangelo were each given a commission by Gonfaloniere Piero Soderini to decorate a wall in the “ Hall of Five Hundred ”.

England was one of the most centralized states in the Late Middle Ages, and the armies that fought the Hundred Years ' War were mostly paid professionals.

Kate Baldwin, Aaron Lazar, Christiane Noll, Paul Betz, Renee Rakelle, Marilyn Maye ( singing " I ’ m Still Here "), and Alexander Gemignani were all on hand to sing songs including " I Remember ", " Another Hundred People ", " Children Will Listen ", and " Getting Married Today ".

Originally proposed by Alcoholics Anonymous ( AA ) as a method of recovery from alcoholism, the Twelve Steps were first published in the book Alcoholics Anonymous: The Story of How More Than One Hundred Men Have Recovered from Alcoholism in 1939.

While the film portrayed the events of the " Hundred Days " quite faithfully, including some allusions to and scenes from the Battle of Ligny and of Quatre Bras, there were a few mistakes, presumably made for artistic purposes, and some characters act as ciphers for others.

* 1453: The Battle of Castillon is the last engagement of the Hundred Years ' War and the first battle in European history where cannons were a major factor in deciding the battle.

The two major surveys of the English census known as the Hundred Rolls were conducted.

Beginning in 213 BC, all books from the Hundred Schools of Thought ( except Legalism ) were burned.

Hundred thousand of Poles were expelled after 1944.

The second collection opens with a reference to Ward McAllister's " assertion that there were only ' Four Hundred ' people in New York City who were really worth noticing.

Philip also decided to derail the Anglo-French peace negotiations then taking place ( at the time England and France were engaged in disputes that would lead to the Hundred Years ' War ), declaring to Edward III that any treaty between France and England must include the exiled King of Scots.

The financial demands of the Hundred Years ' War were enormous, and the king and his ministers tried different methods of covering the expenses.

Carroll County was created in 1837 from parts of Baltimore and Frederick Counties, see Hundred ( division ).

Ivan revised the law code ( known as the sudebnik ), created a standing army ( the streltsy ), established the Zemsky Sobor or assembly of the land, a public, consensus-building assembly, the council of the nobles ( known as the Chosen Council ), and confirmed the position of the Church with the Council of the Hundred Chapters, which unified the rituals and ecclesiastical regulations of the entire country.

During the period in which England and France contended for the rule of Normandy ( through the end of the Hundred Years ' War ), the kings of England not infrequently created peers as Counts and Dukes of Aumale.

Although the park's name was taken from the area where the 19th century benefactors who created it lived, Finsbury Park had earlier been part of an area that bore the name as part of the Finsbury division of the Ossultone Hundred.

In 1815 he again served as commander-in-chief of the Russian army which after the Hundred Days occupied France, and was created Prince at the close of the war.

Some three years later, Ralph, who had been one of the King's leading commanders in the first phases of the Hundred Years ' War, was created first Earl of Stafford, a signal honour.

In 1442, Ralph Boteler who was created Baron Sudeley by Henry VI of England, built the actual castle on its present site using what he had earned fighting in the Hundred Years ' War.

In Children of the Mind, he travels to many of the Hundred Worlds with Si Wang-Mu, now made possible due to the experimental faster than light travel that created him in Xenocide.

The title was created for a second time in 1442 when John Talbot, 7th Baron Talbot, an English general in the Hundred Years ' War, was made Earl of Shrewsbury in the Peerage of England.

It is thought to have been created by letters patent in 1447 for James Fiennes for his services in the Hundred Years ' War.

In addition, 200 limited edition medals were created and Liverpool based author and journalist Ken Rogers wrote a book One Hundred Years Of Goodison Glory to commemorate the occasion.

During the Hundred Days he was created a Peer of France.

Manchester was administratively part of the Salford Hundred which was created after the Norman Conquest.

Froissart's Chronicles was written in French by Jean Froissart, chronicling the years 1322 until 1400, and describing the conditions that created the Hundred Years ' War, as well as the first fifty years of the war.

The surname rose simultaneously throughout Ireland as the descendants of Conn of the Hundred Battles known as Conn Cétchathach created the Connachta.

When created it included some of the area now in the Wilmington Hundred, which was split off 1833.

When created it included the some of the area now in Mill Creek Hundred, White Clay Hundred, and Pencader Hundred, all of which were split off in 1710.

The Hilly Hundred was first created by Hartley Alley, Bernard Clayton, and Tom Prebys as a two day, one hundred mile ride through central Indiana.

Through the efforts of the St. Clement's Hundred, a local community organization created for the preservation of St. Clement's Island, a replica of the Blackistone Lighthouse was constructed and completed in June 2008.

In 1422 the Dauphin created the " hundred men-at-arms of the King's bodyguard ", known as the " Hundred Lances of France ", to supplement the 24 archers of the Garde Ecossaise.

The title Earl of Tankerville was created in the Peerage of England for John Grey by King Henry V, during the Hundred Years ' War and still exists, albeit in a later creation.