• Monkey With A Shell@lemmy.socdojo.com
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    23 hours ago

    Here I was always under the impression that AD was ‘after death’ in the religious world and BC was ‘before christ’. Which would then make the years when the guy was walking around a sort of uncounted void in the timelines I guess.

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      AD is Anno Domini, “In The Year Of Our Lord” which is why it (is supposed to) start at the Birth of Jesus. The monk did get his dates wrong and Jesus was actually born in like 3~4 AD

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        Makes sense, and would give some explanation for the lack of a year 0 of it was counted as ‘the first year of’.

        Handy then that the more recent secular take of BCE (before current era) makes some of those discrepancies for when an individual was born a moot point.