Cairan Era

The Cairan Era (abbreviated as CE or C.E.) is the era of the Cairan calendar, used principally in northern Messenia, the historic Cairan world, along with its overseas possessions. The era's chosen epoch is the entry of the Glorious Prophetess to Etamps-La-Sainte as the year-long Holy City Siege was lifted. In modern times, years counted after this event are counted as CE, while those before it are noted BCE. Other labels have been used in the past.

The Cairan Era was declared in 218, during the Third Sabāmani Empire. Its then ruler Antonius I Marius, as did most elites of the period, saw the Holy City Siege as the real foundation date of the Third Empire and deliberately pointed up the Cairan nature of the state which his uncle Sixtus I Marius had founded in 189, and its inheritances from previous incarnations of the Sabāmani power.