B.C., B.C.E. Timeline?

Question

Does anyone know the actual timeline for B.C.E. I know it means before the common era or before the Christians era, but when does the Christian era actually start?You have A.D. and then you have B.C.E.

Answer 1

Christians use AD - Anno Domini - year of our Lord and BC - Before Christ marking a date (erroneously) that the early church pegged as Jesus' birth date. Best guess is that the year they picked as the BC/AD boundary was 4 years late. These designations were first used on the Julian and later the Gregorian calendars.

Jews, when expressing dates according to the Gregorian or Julian calendars use BCE and CE....Before the Common Era and Common Era as it is generally against Jewish Law to reference 'other' gods.

The secular world generally adopted the Christian designations.

BTW: There was never a year 0. The calendar, ex-post facto, changed from 1 BC to 1AD

Answer 2

BC was the abbreviation for "Before Christ." In order to globalize the calendar, it was changed to BCE, meaning, as you said, "Before the Common Era."

This dating, though, is based on the assumed (but probably erroneous) year of Jesus' birth. Every year before that year is referred to as BCE.

The year of Jesus' birth and all thereafter are referred to as CE, meaning Common Era. (Earlier this was referred to AD, which was an abbreviation for "Anno Domini," meaning "in the year of our Lord" (referring to the year of Jesus' birth).

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Answer 3

There is no year '0'. BCE ends as year 1 BCE, then it starts with year 1 CE

Answer 4

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Answer 5

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Answer 6

You have CE and BCE.

And it has nothing to do with Christian era.

Answer 7

The year 1, the year Christ was born. There is no zero year.

Answer 8

BC - 0
BCE - 0

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