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- (chronology) Initialism of Before Common Era (Before the Common Era, before Common Era, before the Common Era), Before Current Era (Before the Current Era, before current era, before the current era), or before Christian Era.
- Socrates was tried and executed in the year 399 BCE.
- 2017, BioWare, Mass Effect: Andromeda (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Angara: History Codex entry:
- We now know that circa 1600 BCE, the angara were created and seeded across Heleus by the Jardaan. Records of this process are less substantial than ancient angaran history, but it was apparently in service of a grand experiment.
- 2017, Mark Littmann, Fred Espenak, “Ancient Efforts to Understand”, in Totality: The Great American Eclipses of 2017 and 2024[1], Oxford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 38:
- The earliest reliable accounts of Chinese eclipses come from Spring and Autumn Annals (Ch’un-ch’iu), recording eclipses from 772 to 481 BCE, including a total solar eclipse in 709 BCE.
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before the common era
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- Common Era on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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BCE f
- Initialism of Banque centrale européenne (“ECB, European Central Bank”).
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BCE m
- Initialism of Banc Ceannais Eorpach (“ECB, European Central Bank”).
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- Initialism of Banca Centrale Europea (“ECB, European Central Bank”).
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Initialism of Banco Central Europeu.
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BCE m
- Initialism of Banco Central Europeo (“ECB, European Central Bank”).