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  2. 3rd century BC - Wikipedia

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    The 3rd century BC started the first day of 300 BC and ended the last day of 201 BC. It is considered part of the Classical Era , epoch , or historical period . In the Mediterranean Basin , the first few decades of this century were characterized by a balance of power between the Greek Hellenistic kingdoms in the east, and the great mercantile ...

  3. List of decades, centuries, and millennia - Wikipedia

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    35th century BC: 34th century BC: 33rd century BC: 32nd century BC: 31st century BC: 3rd millennium BC · 3000–2001 BC 30th century BC: 29th century BC: 28th century BC: 27th century BC: 26th century BC: 25th century BC: 24th century BC: 23rd century BC: 22nd century BC: 21st century BC: 2nd millennium BC · 2000–1001 BC 20th century BC ...

  4. Common Era - Wikipedia

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    [30] [31] In 1835, in his book Living Oracles, Alexander Campbell, wrote: "The vulgar Era, or Anno Domini; the fourth year of Jesus Christ, the first of which was but eight days", [32] and also refers to the common era as a synonym for vulgar era with "the fact that our Lord was born on the 4th year before the vulgar era, called Anno Domini ...

  5. 3rd century - Wikipedia

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    Eastern Hemisphere at the beginning of the 3rd century AD. Map of the world in AD 250. Eastern Hemisphere at the end of the 3rd century AD. The 3rd century was the period from AD 201 (represented by the Roman numerals CCI) to AD 300 (CCC) in accordance with the Julian calendar.

  6. Category:Years of the 3rd century BC - Wikipedia

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    Category: Years of the 3rd century BC. 1 language. ... 3rd BC; 2nd BC; 1st BC; 1st; 2nd; 3rd; Subcategories. This category has the following 100 subcategories, out of ...

  7. Calendar era - Wikipedia

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    A calendar era is the period of time elapsed since one epoch of a calendar and, if it exists, before the next one. [1] For example, the current year is numbered 2025 in the Gregorian calendar, which numbers its years in the Western Christian era (the Coptic Orthodox and Ethiopian Orthodox churches have their own Christian eras).

  8. Eratosthenes - Wikipedia

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    He calculated that there are 365 days in a year and that every fourth year there would be 366 days. [30] He was also very proud of his solution for Doubling the Cube. His motivation was that he wanted to produce catapults. Eratosthenes constructed a mechanical line drawing device to calculate the cube, called the mesolabio.

  9. Holocene calendar - Wikipedia

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    The Holocene calendar, also known as the Holocene Era or Human Era (HE), is a year numbering system that adds exactly 10,000 years to the currently dominant (AD/BC or CE/BCE) numbering scheme, placing its first year near the beginning of the Holocene geological epoch and the Neolithic Revolution, when humans shifted from a hunter-gatherer lifestyle to agriculture and fixed settlements.