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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. The two ...

  3. The Common Era is, of course, the time at which Jews and Christians began to have a shared history. See for: BCE, “Before the Common Era,” is a theologically neutral equivalent to BC, “Before Christ;” just as CE, “Common Era,” is a neutral equivalent to A.D. (anno domini), “the year of our Lord.” See for WHY BCE AND CE?

  4. Anno Domini - Wikipedia

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    Eastern Orthodox countries only began to adopt AD instead of the Byzantine calendar in 1700 when Russia did so, with others adopting it in the 19th and 20th centuries. Although anno Domini was in widespread use by the 9th century, the term "Before Christ" (or its equivalent) did not become common until much later.

  5. Calendar era - Wikipedia

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    Used for years before AD 1, counting backwards so the year n BC is n years before AD 1. Thus there is no year 0. C.E. (or CE) and B.C.E. (or BCE) – meaning "Common Era" and "Before the Common Era", numerically equivalent to AD and BC, respectively (in writing, "AD" precedes the year number, but "CE" follows the year: AD 1 = 1 CE.) [11] The ...

  6. Year zero - Wikipedia

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    A year zero does not exist in the Anno Domini (AD) calendar year system commonly used to number years in the Gregorian calendar (nor in its predecessor, the Julian calendar); in this system, the year 1 BC is followed directly by year AD 1 (which is the year of the epoch of the era).

  7. Wikipedia : Neutral point of view/BCE-CE Debate/Votes

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    Argument 3: If the Gregorian Calendar is the common one, the common era is clearly when that calendar started to be used by cultures outside Western Europe - around AD 1900 / 1900 CE. That is truly the common era. Argument 4: BCE/CE is an anti-Christian POV way of writing BC/AD. Find an independent year 0, and then I'll use CE.

  8. Wikipedia talk : Manual of Style/Dates and numbers/sandbox

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    Getting offended because AD stands for In the Year of Our Lord is as silly as getting offended because CE means Common Era. Following accepted usage is a principal tenet of a NPOV policy. We use words, terms, etc. because others’ do - not because we like or prefer them, or because we wish to make a political or religious point with them.

  9. Astronomical year numbering - Wikipedia

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    The numbers of AD/CE years are not changed and are written with either no sign or a positive sign; thus in general n AD/CE is simply n or +n. [1] For normal calculation a number zero is often needed, here most notably when calculating the number of years in a period that spans the epoch; the end years need only be subtracted from each other.

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