Editing Anno Domini (section)

== CE and BCE ==
{{Main|Common Era}}

Alternative names for the ''anno Domini'' era include ''vulgaris aerae'' (found 1615 in Latin),<ref name="VulgarisAerae1">
{{cite book
|quote=anno aerae nostrae vulgaris
|author=Johannes Kepler
|title=Joannis Keppleri Eclogae chronicae: ex epistolis doctissimorum aliquot virorum & suis mutuis, quibus examinantur tempora nobilissima: 1. Herodis Herodiadumque, 2. baptismi & ministerii Christi annorum non plus 2 1/4, 3. passionis, mortis et resurrectionis Dn. N. Iesu Christi, anno aerae nostrae vulgaris 31. non, ut vulgo 33., 4. belli Iudaici, quo funerata fuit cum Ierosolymis & Templo Synagoga Iudaica, sublatumque Vetus Testamentum. Inter alia & commentarius in locum Epiphanii obscurissimum de cyclo veteri Iudaeorum.
|publisher=Francofurti : Tampach
|language = la
|year=1615
|oclc = 62188677|author-link = Johannes Kepler}}</ref>
"Vulgar Era" (in English, as early as 1635),<ref name=1635VulgarinEnglish>
{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=prP9cQAACAAJ&q=vulgar+era
|author1=Kepler, Johann
|author2=Vlacq, Adriaan
|year=1635
|title=Ephemerides of the Celestiall Motions, for the Yeers of the Vulgar Era 1633...
|access-date=18 May 2011
}}</ref>{{efn|The word ''[[wikt:vulgar|vulgar]]'' originally meant "of the ordinary people", distinguishing it from the [[regnal date]] (years since the coronation of the monarch).}}
"Christian Era" (in English, in 1652),<ref>
{{cite book |url = http://www.google.com/products?q=Ephemeris+year+Christian+era+1652 |title=A celestiall glasse, or, Ephemeris for the year of the Christian era 1652 being the bissextile or leap-year: contayning the lunations, planetary motions, configurations & ecclipses for this present year ... : with many other things very delightfull and necessary for most sorts of men: calculated exactly and composed for ... Rochester
|last = Sliter |first = Robert
|year=1652
|publisher=Printed for the Company of Stationers
|location=London
}}</ref>
"[[Common Era]]" (in English, 1708),<ref name=1708CommonInEnglish>
{{cite book |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=D_wvAAAAYAAJ&q=%22common+era%22 |publisher=Printed for H. Rhodes |title=The History of the Works of the Learned |volume=10 |page=513 |location=London |year=1708 |access-date = 18 May 2011 }}</ref>
and "Current Era".<ref name=CurrentEra>
{{cite web |url = http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/judaism/history/history_1.shtml#section_2 |title=History of Judaism 63BCE–1086CE |quote=Year 1: CE – What is nowadays called the 'Current Era' traditionally begins with the birth of a Jewish teacher called Jesus. His followers came to believe he was the promised Messiah and later split away from Judaism to found Christianity |date=8 February 2005 |work=BBC Team |publisher=BBC |access-date=18 May 2011 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110513215113/http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/judaism/history/history_1.shtml |archive-date=13 May 2011 |url-status= live }}
</ref>
Since 1856,<ref>
{{cite book
 |url = https://archive.org/details/postbiblicalhis05raphgoog
 |quote = CE BCE.
 |title=Post-Biblical History of The Jews
 |publisher=Moss & Brother
 |last = Raphall |first = Morris Jacob
 |year=1856
 |access-date=18 May 2011
}}
The term ''common era'' does not appear in this book; the term ''Christian era'' [lowercase] does appear a number of times. Nowhere in the book is the abbreviation explained or expanded directly.
</ref> the alternative abbreviations [[Common Era|CE and BCE]] (sometimes written C.E. and B.C.E.) are sometimes used in place of AD and BC.

The "Common/Current Era" ("CE") terminology is often preferred by those who desire a term that does not explicitly make religious references but still uses the same epoch as the ''anno Domini'' notation.<ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.religioustolerance.org/ce_info1.htm |last=Robinson |first = B.A.|title=Justification of the use of "CE" & "BCE" to identify dates. Trends |website = ReligiousTolerance.org |date=20 April 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110511090102/http://www.religioustolerance.org/ce_info1.htm |archive-date=11 May 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |url = https://www.nytimes.com/1997/08/17/magazine/bc-ad-or-bce-ce.html |first = William |last = Safire |title = On Language: B.C./A.D. or B.C.E./C.E.? |magazine=[[The New York Times Magazine]] |date=17 August 1997 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130612195845/https://www.nytimes.com/1997/08/17/magazine/bc-ad-or-bce-ce.html |archive-date=12 June 2013}}</ref>
For example, Cunningham and Starr (1998) write that "B.C.E./C.E. […] do not presuppose faith in [[Jesus Christ|Christ]] and hence are more appropriate for [[interfaith dialog]] than the conventional B.C./A.D."<ref name=Cunningham2004>{{cite book |editor-last=Cunningham |editor-first = Philip A. |title=Pondering the Passion : what's at stake for Christians and Jews? |year=2004 |publisher=[[Rowman & Littlefield]] |location=Lanham, Md. [u.a.] |isbn=978-0742532182 |page=193 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IN5VAAAAYAAJ&q=%22not+presuppose+faith+in+Christ%22 }}</ref> Upon its foundation, the [[Republic of China (1912–1949)|Republic of China]] adopted the [[Minguo Era]] but used the Western calendar for international purposes. The translated term was {{linktext|lang=zh|西|元}} ({{zh|labels=no|p=xī yuán |l=Western Era}}). Later, in 1949, the People's Republic of China adopted {{linktext|lang=zh|公元}} ({{zh|labels=no|p=gōngyuán |l=Common Era}}) for all purposes domestic and foreign.