Anno Domini Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! == CE and BCE == {{Main|Common Era}} Alternative names for the ''Anno Domini'' era include ''vulgaris aerae'' (found 1615 in Latin),<ref name="VulgarisAerae1"> {{cite book |quote=anno aerae nostrae vulgaris |author=Johannes Kepler |title=Joannis Keppleri Eclogae chronicae: ex epistolis doctissimorum aliquot virorum & suis mutuis, quibus examinantur tempora nobilissima: 1. Herodis Herodiadumque, 2. baptismi & ministerii Christi annorum non plus 2 1/4, 3. passionis, mortis et resurrectionis Dn. N. Iesu Christi, anno aerae nostrae vulgaris 31. non, ut vulgo 33., 4. belli Iudaici, quo funerata fuit cum Ierosolymis & Templo Synagoga Iudaica, sublatumque Vetus Testamentum. Inter alia & commentarius in locum Epiphanii obscurissimum de cyclo veteri Iudaeorum. |publisher=Francofurti : Tampach |language = la |year=1615 |oclc = 62188677|author-link = Johannes Kepler}}</ref> "Vulgar Era" (in English, as early as 1635),<ref name=1635VulgarinEnglish> {{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=prP9cQAACAAJ&q=vulgar+era |author1=Kepler, Johann |author2=Vlacq, Adriaan |year=1635 |title=Ephemerides of the Celestiall Motions, for the Yeers of the Vulgar Era 1633... |access-date=18 May 2011 }}</ref>{{efn|The word ''[[wikt:vulgar|vulgar]]'' originally meant "of the ordinary people", distinguishing it from the [[regnal date]] (years since the coronation of the monarch).}} "Christian Era" (in English, in 1652),<ref> {{cite book |url = http://www.google.com/products?q=Ephemeris+year+Christian+era+1652 |title=A celestiall glasse, or, Ephemeris for the year of the Christian era 1652 being the bissextile or leap-year: contayning the lunations, planetary motions, configurations & ecclipses for this present year ... : with many other things very delightfull and necessary for most sorts of men: calculated exactly and composed for ... Rochester |last = Sliter |first = Robert |year=1652 |publisher=Printed for the Company of Stationers |location=London }}</ref> "[[Common Era]]" (in English, 1708),<ref name=1708CommonInEnglish> {{cite book |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=D_wvAAAAYAAJ&q=%22common+era%22 |publisher=Printed for H. Rhodes |title=The History of the Works of the Learned |volume=10 |page=513 |location=London |year=1708 |access-date = 18 May 2011 }}</ref> and "Current Era".<ref name=CurrentEra> {{cite web |url = http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/judaism/history/history_1.shtml#section_2 |title=History of Judaism 63BCE–1086CE |quote=Year 1: CE – What is nowadays called the 'Current Era' traditionally begins with the birth of a Jewish teacher called Jesus. His followers came to believe he was the promised Messiah and later split away from Judaism to found Christianity |date=8 February 2005 |work=BBC Team |publisher=BBC |access-date=18 May 2011 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110513215113/http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/judaism/history/history_1.shtml |archive-date=13 May 2011 |url-status= live }} </ref> Since 1856,<ref> {{cite book |url = https://archive.org/details/postbiblicalhis05raphgoog |quote = CE BCE. |title=Post-Biblical History of The Jews |publisher=Moss & Brother |last = Raphall |first = Morris Jacob |year=1856 |access-date=18 May 2011 }} The term ''common era'' does not appear in this book; the term ''Christian era'' [lowercase] does appear a number of times. Nowhere in the book is the abbreviation explained or expanded directly. </ref> the alternative abbreviations [[Common Era|CE and BCE]] (sometimes written C.E. and B.C.E.) are sometimes used in place of AD and BC. The "Common/Current Era" ("CE") terminology is often preferred by those who desire a term that does not explicitly make religious references but still uses the same epoch as the Anno Domini notation.<ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.religioustolerance.org/ce_info1.htm |last=Robinson |first = B.A.|title=Justification of the use of "CE" & "BCE" to identify dates. Trends |website = ReligiousTolerance.org |date=20 April 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110511090102/http://www.religioustolerance.org/ce_info1.htm |archive-date=11 May 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |url = https://www.nytimes.com/1997/08/17/magazine/bc-ad-or-bce-ce.html |first = William |last = Safire |title = On Language: B.C./A.D. or B.C.E./C.E.? |magazine=[[The New York Times Magazine]] |date=17 August 1997 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130612195845/https://www.nytimes.com/1997/08/17/magazine/bc-ad-or-bce-ce.html |archive-date=12 June 2013}}</ref> For example, Cunningham and Starr (1998) write that "B.C.E./C.E. […] do not presuppose faith in [[Jesus Christ|Christ]] and hence are more appropriate for [[interfaith dialog]] than the conventional B.C./A.D."<ref name=Cunningham2004>{{cite book |editor-last=Cunningham |editor-first = Philip A. |title=Pondering the Passion : what's at stake for Christians and Jews? |year=2004 |publisher=[[Rowman & Littlefield]] |location=Lanham, Md. [u.a.] |isbn=978-0742532182 |page=193 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IN5VAAAAYAAJ&q=%22not+presuppose+faith+in+Christ%22 }}</ref> Upon its foundation, the [[Republic of China (1912–1949)|Republic of China]] adopted the [[Minguo Era]] but used the Western calendar for international purposes. The translated term was {{linktext|lang=zh|西|元}} ({{zh|labels=no|p=xī yuán |l=Western Era}}). Later, in 1949, the People's Republic of China adopted {{linktext|lang=zh|公元}} ({{zh|labels=no|p=gōngyuán |l=Common Era}}) for all purposes domestic and foreign. 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