1st century BC
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Centuries: | 2nd century BC - 1st century BC - 1st century |
Decades: | 90s BC 80s 70s 60s 50s 40s 30s 20s 10s 0s BC |
(2nd millennium BC - 1st millennium BC - 1st millennium)
The 1st century BC started on January 1, 100 BC and ended on December 31, 1 BC. An alternative name for this century is the last century BC. The AD/BC notation does not use a year zero. Scientific notation does, however, uses a minus sign, so '2 BC' is equal to 'year -1'.