Common Era

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The Common Era (CE) is the widely used secular calendar era that counts years from the traditional date of the birth of Jesus, corresponding to the same years as AD in the Gregorian and Julian calendars.

All labels observed (3)

Label Occurrences
Anno Domini 2
Christian Era 1
Common Era canonical 1

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Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf calendar era
chronological era
abbreviation CE
alsoKnownAs Common Era
surface form: Christian Era

Current Era
associatedWithReligion Christianity
basedOn Christian chronology
classification Western calendar system component
contrastedWith BCE
Before Common Era
correspondsTo AD
Anno Domini era
differsFromADIn terminology only
doesNotIncludeYear year 0
firstYear 1 CE
followsYear 1 BCE
hasConceptualPrecursor Anno Domini system
hasOppositeTemporalDirectionTo Before Common Era
isPartOf proleptic Gregorian calendar
proleptic Julian calendar
isSecularAlternativeTo AD
Common Era self-linksurface differs
surface form: Anno Domini
languageOfTerm English
notationStyle year number followed by CE
pairedWith Before Common Era
pairedWithAbbreviation BCE
promotedFor cultural inclusivity
religious neutrality
relatedConcept Gregorian calendar (Western churches)
surface form: Gregorian calendar reform

Julian calendar
surface form: Julian calendar reform
replacedTermInSecularUsage AD
Anno Domini
sharesYearNumberingWith AD system
timeSpan years counted forward from 1 CE
usedBy educational institutions
historians
international organizations
scientists
usedFor chronological standardization
historical dating
usedIn ISO 8601
surface form: ISO 8601 date representations
usedInCalendar Gregorian calendar (Western churches)
surface form: Gregorian calendar

Julian calendar
usedInContext academic writing
interfaith dialogue
secular publications
yearNumberingStartsFrom traditional date of the birth of Jesus

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Referenced by (4)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Anno Mundi comparedWith Common Era
Common Era alsoKnownAs Common Era
this entity surface form: Christian Era
Common Era isSecularAlternativeTo Common Era self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Anno Domini
proleptic Gregorian calendar usesYearNumbering Common Era
this entity surface form: Anno Domini