Before Standard Imperial Year

The Standard Imperial Year came about as a result of the differing ways of measuring time in each province of Ikaria. Some provinces showed the year as 2800 while others showed it as 1700, for example. Thus, in 0 SIY, the Standard Imperial Year was put into place, and throughout history, historians have tried piecing together the exact years that past events occurred. For example, history states that Emperor Inju II had children in 2939 BSIY, even though he should not have physically lived that long. One common way of documenting dates and years is to give a range of years it could have occurred, whether it be a range of 5 years or a range of a few decades.