I think these dates are from some historical database, as they are labeled "BC". And the days might refer to some Epoch of ancient calendars, maybe the Chinese Calendar whose Epoch was 105 BC (at least if we can trust Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_calendar )
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