BCE

BCE A notation which stands for "before the Common era" and is sometimes used instead of . , , , ...

37 BCE - 70 CE - Herodian Dynasty Herodian Dynasty The Herodian Dynasty was a Jewish dynasty of Idumea descent, who ruled Iudaea Province between 37 BC - AD 92.... ruling Judea under Roman supremacy ...

In 121 BCE, Han forces expelled the Xiongnu from a vast territory spanning the Hexi Corridor to Lop Nur. They repelled a joint Xiongnu-Qiang invasion of this northwestern territory in 111 BCE.

About 430 BCE, he determined the length of the tropical year to be about 365 days, 6 hrs and 19 mins, which is 31 minutes longer than the modern value. It gives exactly 6,940 days to one 19-year cycle.

Around 1800 BCE, the relatively dim stars of Constellation Aries, marked the coming of Spring for Humans of Earth's northern hemisphere.

By the 9th century BCE, after centuries of observations, Babylonian astronomers concluded that in a cycle of 19 years of 12 lunar months each, if you added 7 more months, you returned almost exactly to the same season.

In the 2nd century BCE, Hipparchus, aware of the extraordinary accuracy with which Babylonian astronomers could predict the planets' motions, insisted that Greek astronomers achieve similar levels of accuracy.

Crude lenses have been found in Crete and Asia Minor that date from around 2000 BCE, but these weren't clear enough to see through.

The Julian Date (JD), or Julian Day Number, is a running count of days that starts at noon on January 1, 4713 BCE of the Julian Calendar. The date changes at noon, Greenwich (Universal) Time.

As Trek does not mention the modern equivalents "CE" and "BCE," but does make mention of "AD" and "BC" when referring to years in TOS: "Requiem for Methuselah", TNG: "The Big Goodbye", and TNG: "The Royale", ...

Their tool was the so-called Saros-cycle: this is the period of 223 synodic months (or 18 years and 11.3 days) after which lunar and solar eclipses repeat themselves. E.g., when you know that there has been a solar eclipse on May 18, 603 BCE at dawn, ...

Cave art in France; Pottery from ancient Mesopotamia (5,000-4,000 BCE); Knossos, Crete, (+/- 1000 BCE). There are many more examples, but you get the idea.

For example, the meaning of the exile of the Jewish people in Babylon is more than what happened in the sixth century BCE. The story includes "abiding images of the human condition and its remedy" (Borg, p. 49).

See also: Time, Century, Period, Second, Year