Era

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Era [DeVore]

Applied to numerous historical epochs, presumably starting on some specific date of constant reference, among them the following:

The Grecian Mundane Era	Sept. 1, 5598 B.C.
The Civil Era of Constantinople	Sept. 1, 5508 B.C.
The Alexandrian Era	Aug. 29, 5502 B.C.
Ecclesiastical Era of Antioch	Sept. 1, 5492 B.C.
The Julian Period	Jan. 1, 4713 B.C.
The Mundane Era	October 4008 B.C.
Jewish Mundane Era	October 3761 B.C.
Era of Abraham	Oct. 1, 2015 B.C.
Era of the Olympiads	July 1, 776 B.C.
Roman Era	Apr. 24, 753 B.C.
Era of Nabonassar	Feb. 26, 747 B.C.
Metonic Cycle	July 15, 432 B.C.
Syro-Macedonian, or Grecian, Era	Sept. 1, 312 B.C.
Tyrian Era	Oct. 19, 125 B.C.
Sidonian Era	October 110 B.C.
Caesarean Era of Antioch	Sept. 1, 48 B.C.
The Julian Year	Jan. 1, 45 B.C.
The Spanish Era	Jan. 1, 38 B.C.
Actian Era	Jan. 1, 30 B.C.
Augustan Era	Feb. 14, 27 B.C.
The so-called Vulgar Christian Era	Jan. 1, 1 A.D.
The Destruction of Jerusalem	Sept. 1, 69 A.D.
Era of the Maccabees	Nov. 24, 166 A.D.
Era of Diocletian	Sept. 17, 284 A.D.
Era of Ascension	Nov. 12, 295 A.D.
Era of the Armenians	July 7, 552 A.D.
Mohammedan Era of the Hegira	July 16, 622 A.D.
Persian Era of Yezdegird	June 16, 632 A.D.
The Gregorian Year	Oct. 15, 1582 A.D.
Standard Time zones	Nov. 18, 1883 A.D.
The Julian Day	Jan. 1, 1925 A.D.

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