Due to the Gregorian calendar's obvious connotations of Western Christianity, non-Christians and even some Christians sometimes replace the traditional era notations " AD " and " BC " (" Anno Domini " and " Before Christ ") with " CE " and " BCE " (" Common Era " and " Before Common Era ").

abbreviated as CE, is an alternative naming of the traditional calendar era, Anno Domini ( abbreviated AD ).

* Common Era ( CE ) ( also Christian Era or Current Era ), secular alternative to Anno Domini ( AD )

Dates in this era are designated Anno Domini ( Latin for " in the year of the Lord "), abbreviated AD, or CE ( for " common era ").

1st century AD ( Anno Domini ) follows.

AD 1 is the first year of the Anno Domini era ( also known as the Common Era ).

It was the 2011th year of the Common Era ( CE ) and Anno Domini ( AD ) designations ; the 11th year of the 3rd millennium and of the 21st century ; and the 2nd of the 2010s.

In the Gregorian calendar, it is the 2012th year of the Common Era ( CE ) and Anno Domini ( AD ) designations, the 12th year of the 3rd millennium and of the 21st century, and the 3rd of the 2010s.

Dionysius Exiguus ’ Anno Domini era ( which contains only calendar years AD ) was extended by Bede to the complete Christian era ( which contains, in addition all calendar years BC, but no year zero ).

Dionysius is best known as the inventor of the Anno Domini ( AD ) era, which is used to number the years of both the Gregorian calendar and the ( Christianized ) Julian calendar.

In terms of nationalism, kōki emphasizes the long history of Japan and the imperial family because it is a larger number than the Anno Domini year ( AD ).

* In their ceremonial or commemorative proceedings, Freemasons add 4000 years to the current Anno Domini calendar year and append Anno Lucis (" Year of Light ") to the year ( i. e., 2012 AD = 6012 AL ).

Roman man penetrating a youth, possibly a slave, middle of the 1st century Anno Domini | AD.

When the calendar system of Anno Domini was first introduced by Dionysius Exiguus in AD 525, he assigned the beginning of the new year to March 25 since, according to Catholic theology, the era of grace began with the Incarnation of Christ.

* Anno Domini ( AD )

A direct conversion to familiar Anno Domini dating is ( purposefully ) not given, however the Federation and Empire rules state that Y0 should be somewhere between AD 2020 and AD 2090, the Federation Commander rules arbitrarily set it as AD 2400 ( referred to in-universe as the Valkenburg Chronology ) and consistently use ' AD ' dates derived from that rather than use ' Y-year ' nomenclature, while an option setting the date at 2063 ( in line with the year of First Contact set in other Star Trek settings ) is known as the Amin-Audeh Chronology.

Around AD 400, an Alexandrine monk called Panodoros fixed the Alexandrian Era ( Anno Mundi = in the year of the world ), the date of creation, on 29 August 5493 BC.

Walpurga's feast day is on 25 February, but the day of her canonization, 1 May ( possibly in AD 870 ), was also celebrated during the high medieval period, especially in the 11th century under Anno II, Archbishop of Cologne, so that Walpurgis Night is the eve of May Day, celebrated in continental folklore with dancing.

The Byzantine Anno Mundi era was the official calendar of the Eastern Orthodox Church from c. AD 691 to 1728 in the Ecumenical Patriarchate.

Western Christianity never adopted an Anno Mundi epoch system, relying instead on the Anno Domini ( AD ) epoch system, though AM dating continued to be important in theology since such dating was of direct relevance to the calculation of the Last Judgment ; Bede, for instance, in De Temporum Ratione, recalculates the birth of Jesus at 3952 AM, " thus postponing the date of the apocalypse over 1200 years to 2048 AD.

The table counted the years starting from the presumed birth of Christ, rather than the accession of the emperor Diocletian on 20 November 284, or as stated by Dionysius: " sed magis elegimus ab incarnatione Domini nostri Jesu Christi annorum tempora praenotare ..." It is assumed Dionysius Exiguus intended either 1 AD or 1 BC to be the year of Christ's birth ( a " year zero " does not exist in this calendar ).

D and E are found in a manuscript written at the Cistercian abbey of Whitland in south-west Wales in the later 13th century ; the Cronica ante aduentum Domini ( which takes its title from its opening words ) extends from 1132 BC to 1285 AD, while the Cronica de Wallia extends from 1190 to 1266.

For chronological purposes, the flaw of the Annon Domini system was that dates have to be reckoned backwards or forwards according as they are BC or AD.

In the famous long scroll Along the River During the Qingming Festival painted by Zhang Zeduan ( 1085 – 1145 AD ) during the Song Dynasty ( 960 – 1297 AD ), a suanpan is clearly seen lying beside an account book and doctor's prescriptions on the counter of an apothecary's ( Feibao ).

A writing system for it was devised in 1119 AD and an inscription using this system is known from 1185 ( see List of Jurchen inscriptions ).

It is first attested by an inscription dated to 1224 or 1225 AD and by the Secret History of the Mongols, written in 1228 ( see Mongolic languages ).

The earliest Para-Mongolic text is the Memorial for Yelu Yanning, written in the Khitan Large Script and dated to 986 AD.

Japanese is first attested in a few short inscriptions from the 5th century AD, such as the Inariyama Sword.

The first substantial text in Japanese, however, is the Kojiki, which dates from 712 AD.

The most important text for the study of early Korean is the Hyangga, a collection of 25 poems, of which some go back to the Three Kingdoms period ( 57 – 668 AD ), but are preserved in an orthography that only goes back to the 9th century AD ( Miller 1996: 60 ).

The much stronger axiom of determinacy, or AD, implies that every set of reals is Lebesgue measurable, has the property of Baire, and has the perfect set property ( all three of these results are refuted by AC itself ).

ZF + DC + AD is consistent provided that a sufficiently strong large cardinal axiom is consistent ( the existence of infinitely many Woodin cardinals ).

The name is derived from the type genus Apium, which was originally used by Pliny the Elder circa 50 AD for a celery-like plant.

The first case recorded of the partial exemption of an abbot from episcopal control is that of Faustus, abbot of Lerins, at the council of Arles, AD 456 ; but the exorbitant claims and exactions of bishops, to which this repugnance to episcopal control is to be traced, far more than to the arrogance of abbots, rendered it increasingly frequent, and, in the 6th century, the practice of exempting religious houses partly or altogether from episcopal control, and making them responsible to the pope alone, received an impulse from Pope Gregory the Great.

It is the events of 27 BC from which he obtained his traditional name of Augustus, which historians use in reference from 27 BC until his death in 14 AD.

He kills 28 people in the Trojan War, and his career during that war is retold by Roman historian Gaius Julius Hyginus ( c. 64 BC – AD 17 ) in his Fabulae.

Amara Simhan ( c. AD 375 ) was a Sanskrit grammarian and poet, of whose personal history hardly anything is known.

He is said to have been " one of the nine gems that adorned the throne of Vikramaditya ," and according to the evidence of Hsuan Tsang, this is the Chandragupta Vikramaditya ( Chandragupta II ) that flourished about AD 375.

Dr. Alastair Northedge, a British archaeologist who wrote a book about findings in ' Anah, wrote that the minaret is ' commonly attributed to the Uqaylid ( dynasty ) and the 5th / 11th century ( AH / AD ), though ... more probably of the 6th / 12th century.

His work, a commentary on Plato's Timaeus, is lost, but Proclus, a Neoplatonist of the fifth century AD, reports on it.

This is done by adding eight extra 8-bit buses which allow the graphics controller to issue new AGP requests and commands at the same time with other AGP data flowing via the main 32 address / data ( AD ) lines.

The most likely time frame is in the late fifth or early sixth century AD – at least 100 years after Athanasius.