What Is the Difference Between AD, BC, BCE, and CE in Identifying Historical Dates?

1	What Is the Difference Between AD, BC, BCE, and CE in Identifying Historical Dates? bce dates historical history asked Sep 09 '10 at 20:02 Craighton ♦♦ 16.6k●115●207●329 Looks like that subject line was copied from a website. Why don't you tell us. lol (Sep 09 '10 at 20:14) Jonesm

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AD= Anno Domini or Year of our Lord referring to the year of Christ’s birth , everything after 1 AD
CE= Common Era and is used in place of A.D. the dates are the same, ie 2009 AD is 2009 CE

BC= Before Christ, everything before 1 AD
BCE= Before Common Era. For example 400 BC is 400 BCE (Another term for BC)

answered Sep 09 '10 at 20:13

boba0420
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edited Sep 09 '10 at 20:29

I thought it was 1AD/CE, not 0

(Sep 09 '10 at 20:26) Chirag Patel

O your right......does 0 fall into a category or is it just there?

(Sep 09 '10 at 20:27) boba0420

Never mind found it, 0 doesn't exist, it goes from 1BC to 1AD

(Sep 09 '10 at 20:30) boba0420

The difference is in if you want to use the old Christian based dating system or a more secular dating system.

As stated before:

AD= Anno Domini or Year of our Lord referring to the year of Christ’s birth , everything after 0 AD. CE= Common Era and is used in place of A.D. the dates are the same, ie 2009 AD is 2009 CE. BC= Before Christ, everything before 0 AD. BCE= Before Common Era. For example 400 BC is 400 BCE.

NOTE Most people agree, when using either AD or CE, you do not have to use the signifier, hence this year is 2010 and Stonehenge was built between 3100 - 1100 BCE.

answered Sep 09 '10 at 20:20

Baedon
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