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Common Era or Current Era, abbreviated CE, is a calendar era that is often used as an alternative naming of the Anno Domini era ("in the year of the Lord"), abbreviated AD. The system uses BCE as an abbreviation for "before the Common (or Current) Era" and CE as an abbreviation for "Common Era". The CE/BCE designation uses the same numeric values as the Anno Domini year-numbering system introduced by the 6th-century Christian monk Dionysius Exiguus, intending the beginning of the life of Jesus to be the reference date. Neither notation includes a year zero, and the two notations (CE/BCE and AD/BC) are numerically equivalent; thus " CE" corresponds to "AD ", and "400 BCE" corresponds to "400 BC". The Gregorian calendar and the year-numbering system associated with it is the calendar system with most widespread use in the world today. For decades, it has been the global standard, recognized by international institutions such as the United Nations and the Universal Postal Union.
The expression "Common Era" can be found as early as 1708 in English, and traced back to Latin usage among European Christians to 1615, as vulgaris aerae, and to 1635 in English as Vulgar Era. At those times, the expressions were all used interchangeably with "Christian Era".
Use of the CE abbreviation was introduced by Jewish academics in the mid-19th century. Since the later 20th century, use of CE and BCE has been popularized in academic and scientific publications and more generally by authors and publishers wishing to emphasize secularism or sensitivity to non-Christians, because it does not explicitly make use of religious titles for Jesus, such as "Christ" and Dominus ("Lord"), which are used in the BC/AD notation, nor does it give implicit expression to the Christian creed that Jesus is the Christ.
Common Era is a menswear fashion line designed and managed by Kit Halvorsen. It is based in San Francisco and Boston. The line is quickly expanding, and offers parts of the collection at reputed San Francisco boutique, MAC (Modern Appealing Clothing).
Usage examples of "common era".
From the sixth century Before the Common Era, the Pythian games, one of the great quartet of Panhellenic festivals, had been held in the third year of the Olympic cycle.
To the untrained eye, Last Wave Xanth resembled the Korean peninsula of the thirteenth century, common era.
I once read that practices not too different were considered proper punishment for religious unbelief in pre-Common Era times.
Then at the beginning of the ninth century of the common era, the cities of the south suddenly began to be abandoned and before long were left standing empty.
It was a language written between the 18th and 12th centuries before the common era.
Awake once more in the darkness, I grasped the general and the spectacular-that we were nearing the end of the twentieth century of what men call the common era, that fossil fuel and generated electricity were indispensable to the everyday methods of eating, drinking, sleeping, communicating, traveling, building, and fighting, that micromachines of exquisite circuitry could store information in abundance, and that vivid moving pictures in which people appeared and spoke could be transmitted by waves or over tiny delicate fibers more precious than spun glass.
It happened at around one o'clock on an October Sunday morning during the 1990s, common era.
The Dome of the Rock dated from the seventh century of the Common Era.
If we crammed all of Common Era history into one metre of scroll, how long would the pre-Common Era part of the scroll, back to the start of evolution, be?
The answer is that the pre-Common Era part of the scroll would stretch from Milan to Moscow.
Late in the fourth millennium of the common era, who was to say what had been real two millennia ago, or three millennia, or even longer than that?