era An era is a span of time. Era or ERA may also refer to: * Era (geology), a subdivision of geologic time * Calendar era Education * Academy of European Law (German: '), an international law school * ERA School, in Melbourne, Australia * E ...

is a span of time. Era or ERA may also refer to: *

Era (geology) The geologic time scale or geological time scale (GTS) is a representation of time based on the rock record of Earth. It is a system of chronological dating that uses chronostratigraphy (the process of relating strata to time) and geochronolo ...

, a subdivision of geologic time *

Calendar era A calendar era is the period of time elapsed since one '' epoch'' of a calendar and, if it exists, before the next one. For example, the current year is numbered in the Gregorian calendar, which numbers its years in the Western Christian era ...

Education

Academy of European Law The Academy of European Law ( German: ''Europäische Rechtsakademie'', ERA) is an international centre for training and debate for lawyers. A public foundation based in Trier, Germany, its objective is to promote the awareness, understanding and ...

(German: '), an international law school * ERA School, in Melbourne, Australia * Era University, in Lucknow, India

Games and sports

Earned run average In baseball statistics, earned run average (ERA) is the average of earned runs allowed by a pitcher per nine innings pitched (i.e. the traditional length of a game). It is determined by dividing the number of earned runs allowed by the number ...

, a baseball statistic *

Elite Rodeo Athletes The Elite Rodeo Athletes (ERA) was a professional rodeo organization founded in 2015. Its only season was in 2016, and it ceased operations the following year. Background Men's rodeo sports have long been governed by the Professional Rodeo Cowboy ...

, a professional rodeo organization *

English Racing Automobiles English Racing Automobiles (ERA) was a British racing car manufacturer active from 1933 to 1954. Prewar history ERA was founded by Humphrey Cook, Raymond Mays, and Peter Berthon in November 1933 and established in Bourne, Lincolnshire, next t ...

, a manufacturer of racing cars * Era Basket Liga (EBL), name of

Polish Basketball League Polska Liga Koszykówki (PLK) (English language, English: Polish Basketball League), officially known as the Orlen Basket Liga due to its sponsorship by Orlen, is a professional men's club basketball list of basketball leagues, league in Poland. I ...

due to sponsorship reasons in 2003–2005

Media

* Era (publisher), a Bulgarian publishing house *

Era (radio station) Era (stylized ERA on radio, formerly Era FM until 2017) is a Malaysian Malay-language radio station operated by Astro Radio. The radio station broadcasts 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The radio station went on air on 1 August 1998. In the past ...

, in Malaysia *

Era Television Era Television () is a nationwide cable TV network in Taiwan that is operated by ERA Communications Inc., established in October 1996. Era TV Channels Era TV currently operates three commercial cable television channels: * Era News () * Much T ...

, a Taiwanese television network * ''

Improvement Era The ''Improvement Era'' (often shortened to ''The Era'') was an official magazine of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) between 1897 and 1970. History The ''Improvement Era'' was first published in 1897 as a replacement ...

'', a defunct magazine of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints *

Hellenic Radio The Hellenic Radio (; or ERA) is the main public radio broadcaster in Greece. Founded in 1987 as a subsidiary of public broadcaster Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation (ERT), it broadcasts four domestic radio channels and the international shortw ...

, the main public radio broadcaster in Greece * ''The Era'' (newspaper), a defunct British weekly *

TV Era TV ERA is a television channel based in Skopje, North Macedonia that broadcasts exclusively in the Albanian language. its audience is mainly the country's Albanian population. Among the channel's most famous broadcasts have been the live music show ...

, a television channel in North Macedonia

Music

Era (musical project) Era (styled as +eRa+) is a new wave rock project by French composer Eric Lévi. Some of the lyrics were written by Guy Protheroe in an imaginary language similar to Latin, but deliberately Gibberish, devoid of any exact meaning. Musically, the pro ...

, a New Age music project by French composer Eric Lévi ** ''Era'' (Era album), 1996 * ''Era'' (Disappears album), 2013 * ''Era'' (Echo Lake album), 2015 * ''Era'' (Elvenking album), 2012 * ''Era'' (Bleed from Within album), 2018 * ''The Era'' (album), by Jay Chou * ''Era'', a 2007 album by

In the Nursery In the Nursery are an English neoclassical dark wave and martial industrial band, characterized by their cinematic sound. The duo has provided soundtracks to a variety of TV programmes and films, and is known for its rescoring of silent films ...

* "Era" (song), Italy's entry to the Eurovision song contest 1975 *

Era Records Era Records was an independent American record label located in Hollywood, California. History Era Records was founded by Herb Newman and Lou Bedell in March 1955 as a popular music, pop and rhythm and blues outlet. The label later expanded into ...

, an American record label

People

* Era. Anbarasu, Indian politician *

Era Bell Thompson Era Bell Thompson (August 10, 1905 – December 30, 1986) was an American writer and editor. Thompson was born in Des Moines, Iowa, Includes brief bio and a selection from ''Africa''. to an African American family, the only daughter of Ste ...

(1905–1986), American journalist *

Era Bernard Era Bernard was an Indian politician and former Member of the Legislative Assembly. He was elected to the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly as Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam The Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (; ; DMK) is an Indian political party based ...

, Indian politician *

Era Istrefi Era Istrefi (; ; born 4 July 1994) is a Kosovo-Albanian singer. Born and raised in Pristina, she rose to international recognition with the breakthrough single " BonBon", which experienced commercial success worldwide and received various certif ...

(born 1994), Albanian musician *

Era Natarasan Era Natarasan (born 8 December 1964), popularly known as Ayesha Natarasan, is an Indian writer of children's books. He writes in Tamil and English. He is the author of Ayisha (in English) / ''Ayesha'' (a Novella) that has sold millions of copie ...

(born 1964), Indian writer *

Era Ziganshina Era Garafovna Ziganshina (, ; born February 1, 1944) is a Soviet and Russian film and stage actress, People's Artist of Russia (2005). Biography Ziganshina was born in Kazan, Soviet Union. She studied at drama school at the Tovstonogov Bolsho ...

(born 1944), Soviet and Russian film and stage actress

Places

Era (river) The Era is a river in Tuscany in Italy. It rises near Volterra and flows into the Arno river at Pontedera. The Era is 54 km long, and its main tributaries are: (to the left) Cascina river, Ragone torrent, Sterza torrent, and (to the right) C ...

, of Tuscany in Italy * Era, Ohio, United States * Era, Texas, United States * Era (reservoir), Ethiopia * Era Quhila, another reservoir in Ethiopia

Politics and government

Electricity Regulatory Authority The Electricity Regulatory Authority (ERA) is a government agency that regulates, licenses, and supervises the generation, transmission, distribution, sale, export, and importation of electrical energy in Uganda. Location The offices of the ER ...

, of the Government of Uganda * Electronic Records Archives, of the United States National Archives and Records Administration *

Environment and Resources Authority The Environment and Resources Authority (ERA, ) is the regulatory agency responsible for the natural environment in Malta. It was formed from the demerger of the Malta Environment and Planning Authority in 2016, which also resulted in the creation ...

, a government agency of Malta *

European Radical Alliance The Group of the European Radical Alliance (ERA) was a heterogeneous political group with seats in the European Parliament between 1994 and 1999. It was formed by regionalist parties from the former Rainbow Group, although its largest and domin ...

, a defunct political group in the European Parliament *

European Union Agency for Railways The European Union Agency for Railways (ERA) is an agency of the European Union (EU) that sets mandatory requirements for European railways and manufacturers in the form of Technical Specifications for Interoperability (TSI), which apply to the ...

Excellence in Research for Australia Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) is Australia's national research evaluation framework, developed and administered by the Australian Research Council (ARC). The first full round of ERA occurred in 2010, and subsequent rounds followed ...

, a research assessment initiative of the Australian Government

Legislation

Education Reform Act (disambiguation) Education Reform Act may refer to: * Education Reform Act 1988 in the UK * Mississippi Education Reform Act of 1982 * Kentucky Education Reform Act Education in Kentucky includes elementary school (kindergarten through fifth grade in most areas ...

, or specifically **

Education Reform Act 1988 The Education Reform Act 1988 (c. 40) is legislation that introduced multiple changes to the education system in England and Wales, including the introduction of Key Stages and the National Curriculum. It replaced many rules and structures that h ...

of the Parliament of the United Kingdom **

Kentucky Education Reform Act Education in Kentucky includes elementary school (kindergarten through fifth grade in most areas), middle school (or junior high, sixth grade through eighth grade in most locations), high school (ninth through twelfth grade in most locations), a ...

** Massachusetts Education Reform Act of 1993 *

Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935 The Relief Appropriation Act of 1935 was passed on April 8, 1935, as a part of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal. It was a large public works program that included the Works Progress Administration (WPA), the National Youth Administration, ...

of the United States Congress * Employee Rights Act, proposed legislation in the United States Congress *

Employment Relations Act 2000 The New Zealand Employment Relations Act 2000 (often known by its acronym, ERA) is a statute of the Parliament of New Zealand. It was substantially amended by the Employment Relations (Validation of Union Registration and Other Matters) Amend ...

of the Parliament of New Zealand *

Employment Rights Act 1996 The Employment Rights Act 1996 (c. 18) is a United Kingdom Act of Parliament (United Kingdom), Act of Parliament passed by the Conservative Party (UK), Conservative government to codify existing law on individual rights in UK labour law. Histo ...

, of the Parliament of the United Kingdom *

Equal Rights Amendment The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) was a proposed amendment to the Constitution of the United States, United States Constitution that would explicitly prohibit sex discrimination. It is not currently a part of the Constitution, though its Ratifi ...

, a proposed, but unratified, amendment to the United States Constitution ** State equal rights amendments, similar laws passed in various U.S. states

Science and technology

Earth rotation angle Sidereal time ("sidereal" pronounced ) is a system of timekeeping used especially by astronomers. Using sidereal time and the celestial coordinate system, it is easy to locate the positions of celestial objects in the night sky. Sidereal tim ...

in astrometry *

ECMWF re-analysis The ECMWF reanalysis project is a meteorological reanalysis project carried out by the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), integrating historical meteorological observations onto a regularly spaced global grid for retrospect ...

in meteorology *

Eigensystem realization algorithm The Eigensystem realization algorithm (ERA) is a system identification technique popular in civil engineering, in particular in structural health monitoring. ERA can be used as a modal analysis technique and generates a system realization using th ...

* Electronic Reactions of Abrams, a discredited medical theory of

Albert Abrams Albert Abrams (December 8, 1863 – January 13, 1924) was a fraudulent American physician, well known during his life for inventing machines, such as the "Oscilloclast" and the "Radioclast", which he falsely claimed could diagnose and cure almost ...

* Elementary recursive arithmetic *

ERA (command) In computing, del (or erase) is a command in command-line interpreters ( shells) such as COMMAND.COM, cmd.exe, 4DOS, NDOS, 4OS2, 4NT and Windows PowerShell. It is used to delete one or more files or directories from a file system. Implementa ...

, a file erase command under CP/M and DR-DOS *

European Research Area The European Research Area (ERA) is a system of scientific research programs integrating the scientific resources of the European Union (EU). Since its inception in 2000, the structure has been concentrated on European cooperation in the fields of ...

, a system of scientific research programmes *

European Robotic Arm The European Robotic Arm (ERA) is a robotic arm that is attached to the Russian Orbital Segment (ROS) of the International Space Station. Launched to the ISS in July 2021; it is the first robotic arm that is able to work on the Russian Segment ...

, on the International Space Station *

Exobiology Radiation Assembly Exobiology Radiation Assembly (ERA) was an experiment that investigated the biological effects of space radiation. An astrobiology mission developed by the European Space Agency (ESA), it took place aboard the European Retrievable Carrier (EURECA) ...

, an experiment in Earth orbit *

Explosive reactive armour Reactive armour is a type of vehicle armour used in protecting vehicles, especially modern tanks, against shaped charges and hardened kinetic energy penetrators. The most common type is ''explosive reactive armour'' (ERA), but variants include ...

EraMobile EraMobile (Epidemic-based Reliable and Adaptive Multicast for Mobile ad hoc networks) is a bio-inspired reliable multicast In computer networking, multicast is a type of group communication where data transmission is addressed to a group of d ...

Transport

Era Alaska New Pacific Airlines, Inc., d.b.a. Ravn Alaska, is an Alaskan airline that specializes in serving small communities in the US state of Alaska. The airline is headquartered in Anchorage, which is also home to its primary hub, Ted Stevens Ancho ...

, now Ravn Alaska, an American airline * Era Aviation, a defunct American airline * Eastham Rake railway station, in England *

Electric Raceabout The Electric Raceabout (''ERA'') is an all-electric sports car developed by the Helsinki Metropolia University of Applied Sciences. It contains lithium-titanate batteries, four direct-drive electric motors, and a carbon fiber monocoque chassi ...

, a Finnish electric sports car *

European Regions Airline Association The European Regions Airline Association is a trade association of European regional airlines and associated businesses. It was founded as the European Regional Airlines Association in 1980, by a small number of what were then known as ''commuter ...

, a trade association *

Winnebago Era Winnebago Industries, Inc. is an American manufacturer of motorhomes, a type of recreational vehicle (RV). In 2018, the company expanded into motorboat manufacturing with the acquisition of Chris-Craft Corporation. Winnebago has also manufacture ...

, a motorhome

Other uses

* Educational Research Analysts, an organization created by Mel and Norma Gabler *

, a Uganda government electricity regulatory agency. * Electronic remittance advice *

Energy Resources of Australia Energy Resources of Australia Ltd () is a public company based in Australia. It is a subsidiary of the Rio Tinto Group which as of 2021 owns 86.3% of the company. The remainder is publicly held and traded on the Australian Securities Exchange. The ...

, an Australian mining company * Energy Retail Association, a trade association in Great Britain *

Engine room artificer Engine room artificer (ERA) is a specialised position in the crews of naval vessels – especially those of the British Royal Navy (RN) and other Commonwealth navies. An ERA is usually a fitter and turner, boilermaker, coppersmith or enginesmi ...

, a Royal Navy position *

Engineering Research Associates Engineering Research Associates, commonly known as ERA, was a pioneering computer firm from the 1950s. ERA became famous for their numerical computers, but as the market expanded they became better known for their drum memory systems. They were ...

, a defunct American computer manufacturer * Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator, an American startup accelerator *

Equal Rights Advocates Equal Rights Advocates (ERA) is an American non-profit gender justice/women's rights organization that was founded in 1974. ERA is a legal and advocacy organization for advancing rights and opportunities for women, girls, and people of marginalize ...

, an American women's rights organization * Equal Rights Association, a defunct American suffrage organization *

ERA Productions ERA Productions, Inc. was a commercial studio in the 1950s and 1960s. Due to the Disney animators' strike in 1941, many animators defected eventually to ERA, such as Ed Ardal, Ward Kimball and Virgil "Vip" Partch. The company was helmed by presid ...

, an American animation studio *

ERA Real Estate Anywhere Real Estate Inc., formerly Realogy (), is an American publicly traded real estate services company. It owns and franchises several real estate brands and brokerages, and offers consumer programs, lead generation, relocation, and title ...

, an American real estate franchise *

Eramet Eramet is a French multinational mining and metallurgy company, listed on the Euronext Paris exchange under the symbol ERA. The company produces non-ferrous metals and derivatives, nickel alloys and superalloys, and high-performance special stee ...

, a French multinational mining and metallurgy company *

European Rental Association The ERA - European Rental Association is a trade association representing the equipment rental sector in Europe. History and Mission ERA was set up in 2006 to promote and represent the equipment rental industry, which was largely overlooked and ...