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  2. Common Era - Wikipedia

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    Common Era (CE) and Before the Common Era (BCE) are year notations for the Gregorian calendar (and its predecessor, the Julian calendar), the world's most widely used calendar era. Common Era and Before the Common Era are alternatives to the original Anno Domini (AD) and Before Christ (BC) notations used for the same calendar era.

  3. Timeline of ancient history - Wikipedia

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    The date used as the end of the ancient era is arbitrary. The transition period from Classical Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages is known as Late Antiquity.Late Antiquity is a periodization used by historians to describe the transitional centuries from Classical Antiquity to the Middle Ages, in both mainland Europe and the Mediterranean world: generally from the end of the Roman Empire's ...

  4. List of timelines - Wikipedia

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    Maritime timeline (45,000 BCE–1994) Timeline of transportation technology (20,000 BCE–present) Timeline of railway history (428 BCE–present) Timeline of United States railway history (1810s–present) Timeline of the London Underground (1820s–present) Timeline of motorized bicycle history (1868–1986) Timeline of aviation (1700/1000 ...

  5. List of decades, centuries, and millennia - Wikipedia

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    List of years; Timelines of world history; List of timelines; Chronology; See calendar and list of calendars for other groupings of years.; See history, history by period, and periodization for different organizations of historical events.

  6. Chronology of the ancient Near East - Wikipedia

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    [70] [71] His research has recently been included in the Oxford History of the Ancient Near East and has been cited widely in the recent academic literature. [72] A new method has been developed to combine dendrochronology with Miyake events to extend the range to other areas.

  7. List of time periods - Wikipedia

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    The categorisation of the past into discrete, quantified named blocks of time is called periodization. [1] This is a list of such named time periods as defined in various fields of study.

  8. Timeline of scientific discoveries - Wikipedia

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    The Nippur cubit-rod, c. 2650 BCE, in the Archeological Museum of Istanbul, Turkey. 3000 BC: Units of measurement are developed in the Americas as well as the major Bronze Age civilizations: Egypt, Mesopotamia, Elam and the Indus Valley. [1] [2]

  9. Timelines of world history - Wikipedia

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    These timelines of world history detail recorded events since the creation of writing roughly 5000 years ago to the present day.. For events from c. 3200 BC – c. 500 see: Timeline of ancient history