Observed Dates

The following list of dates represents observed occurrences of date encodings within records harvested via OAI-PMH. This list is not exhaustive, but is meant to provide a beginning set of test cases/examples of current encoding practices, in particular to assist efforts to normalize date encodings.

(1921?)
(About) 242 B.C.
(After) 190 A.D.
(Beginning of the) IVth century A.D.
(Between) 169 A.D. 177 A.D.
(Early) IIIrd century A.D.
(End of the) IIIrd century A.D.
(First half of the) IIIrd century A.D.
(Copied after) February 24, 156 A.D. (date of the petition: February 19, 156 A.D.)
(Late) IIIrd century A.D. (April 9)
(Late) Ptolemaic
(Late) IIIrd or early IVth century A.D.
(Late) IIIrd century/(early) IVth century A.D.
(Late) IVth - early Vth century A.D. (between 381 A.D. 431 A.D.)
(Probably) 22/23 A.D.
(Second half of the) IInd century A.D.
(Probably) reign of Claudius (41-54 A.D.)
(Spring of) 240 B.C.
(Shortly after) May 29, 47 A.D.
(Shortly before) 210 B.C.
(Some time after) 47/48 A.D. or after 61/62 A.D.
2nd century A.D
5th-4th century B.C.
205-204 B.C.[?] (or 180 B.C.[?] Kramer)
25 February - 26 March, 203 A.D.
35 A.D. (Bagnall)
256/255 B.C. (or later) (text a)
10/5/1944
103 A.D.[?]
11/1939
117/118 A.D.
12/13 September 544 (or 529) A.D.
1374?-1438
1432-1521
14-37 A.D. (reign of Tiberius)
15 century A.D.
15th century B.C.
17th century
1509
1858.
172-[?] A.D.
1860 (ca.)
1860s
1860s?
187-?
1870s (ca.
1861/1862 (ca.)
1864 February
1864-01-01
1864 March 19
20 January 1928
(Nov. 9, 1911)
1872-01
187[9?]
1895, 1896, 1897, 1898, 1899, 1900, 1901, 1902, 1903, 1904,
c1908
2001.06.01 by CAD
(ca). 1915)
(unknown)
unknown.
[between 1890 and 1910]
[between 1849-1857]
(Between) 253 A.D. 260 A.D
572 A.D., between August 29 A.D. November 14
(Between) December 28, 181 A.D., A.D. August 29, 183 A.D.