18301904

18301904 is a textual representation that is commonly used to indicate the lifespan of a person or the span of years associated with an era. In standard biographical practice, birth and death years are typically written with a dash between them as 1830–1904. When the string appears without punctuation, as 18301904, it is often encountered in catalog records, database identifiers, file names, or other contexts where spaces or hyphens are not used.

Usage and context

The notation serves as a concise shorthand in dictionaries, genealogical databases, archival catalogs, and bibliographic systems to signal that an individual was born in 1830 and died in 1904. It does not function as a calendar date or as a description of events; rather, it marks the lifespan or the relevant time span associated with a person, work, or period.

Ambiguity and limitations

The sequence 18301904 does not uniquely identify a person; many individuals could have those exact years as their birth and death dates. In formal prose, the figure is usually introduced with a name and the lifespan in parentheses, e.g., Someone (1830–1904). In digital records, the compact form may appear as an indexing key or filename component.

See also

Lifespan notation; 1830s; 1904 in history.