When referred to BC (or BCE) period, the numeration of years is backwards:1000 BC, 999BC,..... 2 BC, 1BC etc. Having said so, it is 524 BCE comes before 523 BCE.
The year 10500 BCE ended at the beginning of the year 10499 BCE.
The year 10500 BCE ended at the beginning of the year 10499 BCE.
Birth Year: 535 BCE Death Year: 475 BCE
540 BCE. In years BCE (BC), the years count backward until the year 1 BCE is reached. The year 1 CE (AD) immediately follows 1 BCE, and begins counting upward; there is no year 0.
88 BCE is in the first century BC or BCE.
yes
To help illustrate, here is a list of chronological years, with 1 BCE near the middle. There is no year zero:5 BCE (or BC)4 BCE3 BCE2 BCE1 BCE1 CE (or AD)2 CE3 CE4 CE5 CE
Third century BCE
21 bce
4568 BCE. Not 4567 BCE because there was no year 0. Answer valid in 2011.
There is not a year zero. So, when 1 BCE ends, 1 CE begins. The division is at midnight on 31 December, 1 BCE.