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A calendar era is the period of time elapsed since one epoch of a calendar and, if it exists, before the next one. [1] For example, the current year is numbered 2025 in the Gregorian calendar, which numbers its years in the Western Christian era (the Coptic Orthodox and Ethiopian Orthodox churches have their own Christian eras).
See calendar and list of calendars for other groupings of years. See history , history by period , and periodization for different organizations of historical events. For earlier time periods, see Timeline of the Big Bang , Geologic time scale , Timeline of evolution , and Logarithmic timeline .
[30] [31] In 1835, in his book Living Oracles, Alexander Campbell, wrote: "The vulgar Era, or Anno Domini; the fourth year of Jesus Christ, the first of which was but eight days", [32] and also refers to the common era as a synonym for vulgar era with "the fact that our Lord was born on the 4th year before the vulgar era, called Anno Domini ...
It's hard to believe that the year 2000 was 25 years ago. From iconic movies to tech innovations, here are 25 things turning 25 this year. 25 things you won't believe are turning 25 in 2025
A graphical view of the Cosmic Calendar, featuring the months of the year, days of December, the final minute, and the final second. The Cosmic Calendar is a method to visualize the chronology of the universe, scaling its currently understood age of 13.8 billion years to a single year in order to help intuit it for pedagogical purposes in science education or popular science.
The year 1950 was chosen because it was the standard astronomical epoch at that time. [ citation needed ] It also marked [ 3 ] the publication of the first radiocarbon dates in December 1949, [ 17 ] and 1950 also antedates large-scale atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons , which altered the global ratio of carbon-14 to carbon-12 .
This template calculates the amount of time which has passed since a provided timestamp. Template parameters [Edit template data] Parameter Description Type Status Timestamp 1 Base timestamp for calculation of passed time. Example format: Nov 6 2008, see template documentation for other supported formats. String required magnitude magnitude Explicitly sets a specific unit to display return ...
A calendar date is a reference to a particular day represented within a calendar system. The calendar date allows the specific day to be identified. The number of days between two dates may be calculated. For example, "25 January 2025" is ten days after "15 January 2025". The date of a particular event depends on the observed time zone.