Universal Era
The beginning of the Universal era is marked by oldest dated of piece of recorded history. The Universal Era also marks the beginning of the Age of Separation and unless scholars and historians discover a more significant recorded period to predate the Age of Separation it will remain the first age of the Universal Era. When older pieces of recorded history are discovered the length of the Universal Era is retroactively adjusted to match the new information. For regular people Universal Era means little and is not widely known about.