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 ...

As the name suggests, BC or Before Christ refers to the number of years before Christ was born. AD or Anno Domini is the period after Christ was born. BCE and CE stand for 'Before Common Era' and 'Common Era' and are alternatives to BC and AD respectively.

B.C. Time Period. 200,000 B.C. Homo sapiens, the first modern humans, appear in Africa. 62,000 B.C. Bow and arrows with stone points (arrowheads) are used. 30,000 B.C. Cro-Magnon man is flourishing, moving from the Near East into Europe, lives by hunting and gathering. Cro-Magnon’s painted caves with drawings of the animals they killed.

2025年2月5日 · BC 是 Before Christ 的缩写，意为“基督诞生之前”，用来指“公元前……”，也叫“主前……”，如654 BC，公元前654年。 AD 即 Anno Domini ，出自拉丁语，意为“in the year of the Lord”，即“主的元年”，用来指“公元……”，如AD 2017，公元2017年。

台灣所使用的民國紀年是源自中華民國的國家紀年方式，要使用英文來描述民國紀年，我們可以用Republic of China era （ROC era, 民國紀年）。 所以，你在跟外國朋友解釋民國幾年的來源的時候，可以這麼說:

2015年1月14日 · 以前在英语里“ 纪元前 ”是用“ BC ”来代表，“ 纪元后 ”是用“ AD ”代表；“BC”是“Before Christ”（“基督前”）的首字母缩写；而“AD”则是拉丁文“Anno Domini”（“主的年份”）的缩写。

2021年1月13日 · What do BC and BCE mean? The abbreviation BC stands for “before Christ,” while AD stands for annō Dominī, which translates to “in the year of the lord.” The lord that’s being referenced, as BC hints at, is Jesus Christ. The alternative to using BC and AD would be to use BCE, which means “before Common Era,” and CE, which means ...

CE is an abbreviation for Common Era. It means the same as AD (Anno Domini) and represents the time from year 1 and onward. BCE is short for Before Common Era. It can be used instead of BC (Before Christ) and stands for the time before year 1. CE and BCE are used in exactly the same way as the traditional abbreviations AD and BC.

BC stands for 'Before Christ' and refers to all the years before the birth of Jesus Christ. The numbers go backward from year 1, so 500 BC is earlier than 200 BC. AD stands for the Latin phrase 'Anno Domini', which means 'in the year of our Lord'.

2017年3月27日 · The BC/AD system, from Dionysius onward, was informed by Christian theology which took for granted that someone (Dionysius) actually knew the birth date of Jesus of Nazareth. In order to date a present event from a past …