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* ''[[Gundam]]'' has a different Year Zero for each of its [[Alternate Universe]]s, though they were invented by the creators rather than the fans. Interestingly, each series takes place decades after its timeline's Year Zero, and only rarely is the Year Zero explicitly tied to a specific event.

** U.C. 0001, the first year in the original ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam]]'''s Universal Century, is the year in which migration to space begins, and as revealed in ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn]]'' (the first UC series to make reference to that year) is also tied to the actions of a young Syam Vist.

** Fans tend to attempt to create the regular version of this with at least the Universal Century timeline, since there are a handful of specific dates given that are tied to a day of the week. This can be used to narrow down 2045 as the earliest possible year for the switch to the new calendar.

** The After Colony calendar in ''[[Gundam Wing]]'' on the other hand, is implied begin from the launch of Skylab in the 1970s. Though it's never mentioned exactly when AC replaced AD.

* When Kagome travels to the past in ''[[Inuyasha]]'', she plops down into Japan's Warring States era, a century of continuous civil war and bloodshed. Because no exact dates are mentioned it would be anyone's guess as to what year it is when she goes back in time. The main clue the fandom has used to try to put a date to the era comes from one of the very first episodes, where a young samurai mentions real life Japanese warlord [[Oda Nobunaga]], but considers him to be unimportant and an idiot.<ref>Nobunaga eventually brutally conquered much of Japan and his successors finished the unification and established the government that ran the country for the next 250 years</ref> Since there is a rather short window of time where Nobunaga was known, but ''not'' as a terrifying, ruthless, slaughter-happy [[Badass]], fandom uses this to get a rough idea of when the story is supposed to be taking place.

* The Year Zero event in ''[[One Piece]]'' is generally portrayed as the founding of the World Government, which occurred approximately 800 years ago. This event is the foundation of the ''One Piece'' world as it is now and the end of the Blank Century, a period which has very few surviving historical records and is illegal to study.

** Another Year Zero used unofficially in-story is the death of Gold Roger, twenty-four years prior, which started the "Great Pirate Era." Many characters refer to the "current era" and how it started with Roger's death. Some also remark that {{spoiler|Whitebeard}}'s death is yet another Year Zero, creating a new era.

 

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