Regnal era in the context of Epoch (reference date)

Regnal era in the context of Epoch (reference date)

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⭐ Core Definition: Regnal era

A regnal year is a year of the reign of a sovereign, from the Latin regnum meaning kingdom, rule. Regnal years considered the date as an ordinal, not a cardinal number. For example, a monarch could have a first year of rule, a second year of rule, a third year of rule, and so on, but not a zeroth year of rule.

Applying this ancient epoch system to modern calculations of time, which include zero, is what led to the debate over when the third millennium began. Regnal years are "finite era names", contrary to "infinite era names" such as Christian era, Jimmu era, Juche era, and so on.

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⭐ Core Definition: Regnal era
Regnal era in the context of Era

Regnal era in the context of Era

An era is a span of time defined for the purposes of chronology or historiography, as in the regnal eras in the history of a given monarchy, a calendar era used for a given calendar, or the geological eras defined for the history of Earth.

Comparable terms are Epoch, age, period, saeculum, aeon (Greek aion) and yuga (Sanskrit युग).

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