Until the year 1800, loud speaker...

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Which one sounds natural?

1- Until the year 100, loud speaker had never been part of celebration.
2-Until the year 1800, loud speaker had never been part of celebrations.
3- Until the year 1800, loud speaker had never been part of any celebrations.
4- Until the year 1800, loud speaker had never been part of a celebration.
 

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None of them are natural, grammatical, or even meaningful. What do you mean by 'loud speaker' ?

Also, I think you accidentally left an '8' out of your year in sentence #1.
 

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Till 1800, loudspeakers weren't a part of celebrations.

Were there loudspeakers before then? I doubt it.
 

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We need to clarify what you're talking about. Do you mean the sort of speaker you get with a music system or the handheld kind used by someone making an announcement in a public area?
 

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We need to clarify what you're talking about. Do you mean the sort of speaker you get with a music system or the handheld kind used by someone making an announcement in a public area?
A music system.
 

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Were speakers for music systems really invented in 1800?
 

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I'd have said it was more like the 1920s or 1930s.
 

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I'd have said it was more like the 1920s or 1930s.
So would I but I was hoping the OP would back up their statements in post #1.
 
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