Category:2nd century BC

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The AD/BC notation does not use a year zero; however, astronomical year numbering does use a minus sign, so '2 BC' is equal to 'year -1', '1 BC' is equal to astronomical 'year 0', and so forth. In the Gregorian system, the NNth century AD starts in the base year 'NN-100+1' and ends in the 'NN'th year, so for example, the 16th century begins on January 1st, 1501 and ends December 31st, 1600.


However, year order is reversed in BC since there is no year zero and no century zero creating a ninety-nine year shift, so the calculation is 'Nth century BC' begins in year 'N BC' and ends in 'N-99 BC' so that the third century BC, begins in 300 BC and ends 201 BC.
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3rd century BC		 2nd century BC
English Wikipedia article:
2nd century BC

Commons related category:
2nd century BC
 Succeeded by
1st century BC

(2nd millennium BC - 1st millennium BC - 1st millennium)


The 2nd century BC started on January 1, 200 BC and ended on December 31, 101 BC.

Pages in category "2nd century BC"

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