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Chronology and Dating (BCE/CE)

Master BCE/CE dating — including the two things that trip almost everyone up: BCE counts backward, and there's no year 0.

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What are we learning?

Historians need a shared way to date events from every culture and era on one timeline. BCE (Before Common Era) and CE (Common Era) do that job — but they behave differently from the counting you're used to.