Origin and history of B.C.E.

Spain (where the local era, aera Hispanica, began 38 B.C.E.; some say because of a tax levied that year)....Other ancient eras included the Chaldean (autumn of 311 B.C.E.), the Era of Actium (31 B.C.E.), of Antioch (49 B.C.E.), of...Tyre (126 B.C.E.), the Olympiadic (July 1, 776 B.C.E.) and the Seleucidan (autumn 312 B.C.E.)....

1803 (Seleucidan), in reference to dynasty founded in Syria 312 B.C.E. by Seleucus Nicator, Macedonian Greek general and...It lasted until the Roman conquest in 65 B.C.E....Era, formerly a widespread local reckoning in the East (maintained by Syrian Christians) usually is dated to Sept. 1, 312 B.C.E...

translation of Greek Philippikoi (logoi), referrimg to the series of orations made in Athens by Demosthenes in 351-341 B.C.E...The Latin phrase was used of the speeches made by Cicero against Marc Antony in 44 and 43 B.C.E....

B.C.E. was calculated to have taken place in what we would call 753 B.C.E....

1724, a Latinization of Chinese K'ung Fu-tzu "K'ung the philosopher (or Master)" (c. 551 B.C.E....-c. 479 B.C.E.), who sought to remedy the degeneracy and oppression of his time by the spread of virtue and learning....

struggle for hegemony between Athens and her maritime empire and Sparta and her allies on the Peloponnesus, waged from 431 B.C.E.... to 404 B.C.E....

B.C.E.), who wrote "Iera Anagraphe," in which he maintained the Greek deities actually were historical mortals....

"a rule or law," Old English canon "rule, law, or decree of the Church," from Old French canon or directly from Late Latin canon "Church law, a rule or doctrine enacted by ecclesiastical authority," in classical Latin, "measuring line, rule," from Greek kanon "any straight rod or

late 14c., sequestren, transitive, "remove (something), set aside; quarantine, isolate (someone); excommunicate;" also intransitive, "separate oneself from," from Old French sequestrer (14c.) and directly from Late Latin sequestrare "to place in safekeeping," from Latin sequester

"the Indian subcontinent, central Asia south of the Himalayas," formerly sometimes used generally for "Asia;" Old English India, Indea, from Latin India, from Greek India "region of the Indus River," later used of the region beyond it, from Indos "Indus River," also "an Indian,"