Chronology

A millennium () is a period of one thousand years, one hundred decades, or ten centuries, It is also sometimes called a kiloannum (ka) or kiloyear (ky).

Western calendar era

thumb|222px|Joseph Scaliger's De emendatione temporum (1583) began the modern science of chronology

modern calendar era

year that does not exist in the Anno Domini / Common Era year-numbering system

year-numbering system

days since the beginning of the Julian Period

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.

thumb |Joseph Priestley's [[A New Chart of History, 1765]] thumb|right|The bronze timeline "Fifteen meters of History" with background information board, Örebro, [[Sweden]] A timeline is a list of events displayed in chronological order. It is typically a graphic design showing a long bar labelled with dates paralleling it, and usually contemporaneous events.

In chronology and periodization, an epoch or reference epoch is an instant in time chosen as the origin of a particular calendar era. The "epoch" serves as a reference point from which time is measured.

dating system used in archaeology and art history

Glottochronology (from Attic Greek 'tongue, language' and 'time') is the part of lexicostatistics which involves comparative linguistics and deals with the chronological relationship between languages.

method mostly used in identification of various fossils which are about millions and billions years old

period of time elapsed since one epoch of a calendar and, if it exists, before the next one

timeline

conspiracy theory that Otto Ⅲ and Pope Sylvester Ⅱ fabricated the Carolingian period (614–911)

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method of year numbering

Ancient Neo-Assyrian record of astronomical observations of Venus

non-repeating base-20 and base-18 calendar used by several pre-Columbian Mesoamerican cultures, including the Maya

solar eclipse

compilation of the canonical gospels of the Christian New Testament into a single account

1460 year calendar cycle of ancient Egypt

17th-century chronology of the history of the world

dating system used in Freemasonry

a topic including time spans mentioned in the bible and meaning derived from these time spans

timeline of the life of Jesus

unstated date

method of numbering years used by the Church of Alexandria beginning in the 4th century AD and by the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria from the 5th century

Calendar era of Iberian peninsula

thumb|Detail. Stele of Shamsh-bel-usur, limmu of the years 864 and 851 BCE. From Assur, Iraq. Pergamon Museum

stadial period

a multi-disciplinary project commissioned by the People's Republic of China in 1996

decimal quantities of a base unit of time

climatic period

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series of north European climatic periods

commonly accepted dates or ranges of dates for composition of the Hebrew Bible, the Deuterocanonical books and the New Testament

solar eclipse mentioned in a text dating to the reign of Mursili II that could be of great importance for the chronology of the Hittite Empire

possible order of composition of Shakespeare's plays

Method of determining the age of events or artifacts

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type of zone

bya or b.y.a. is an abbreviation for "billion years ago". It is commonly used as a unit of time to denote length of time before the present in 109 years. This initialism is often used in the sciences of astronomy, geology, and paleontology.

a timeline of Hindu history based on the Mahabharata, the Ramayana and the Puranas.

discrepancy between the rabbinic and academic datings for the destruction of the First Temple