“THE JULIAN CALENDAR”
(’46 BCE’)
(‘708 AUC’)
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“THE GREGORIAN CALENDAR”
(1582)
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*the terms anno domini (AD) and before christ (BC) are used to ‘label’ / ‘number’ years in the ‘julian’ + ‘gregorian’ calendars*
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(the term anno domini is ‘medieval latin’, which means in the year of THE lord but is often translated as in the year of OUR lord)
(it is occasionally set out more fully as anno Domini nostri Iesu (or Jesu) Christi (“in the year of ‘our lord jesus christ'”))
(‘dionysius exiguus’ of ‘scythia minor’ introduced the ‘AD system’ in ‘AD 525’, counting the years since the birth of ‘christ’)
(this ‘calendar era’ is based on the traditionally reckoned year of the ‘conception’ (or ‘birth’) of ‘jesus (of ‘nazareth’)’, with AD counting years from the start of this ‘epoch’ + BC denoting years before the start of the era)
(there is no ‘year zero’ in this scheme, so the year AD 1 immediately follows the year 1 BC)
(this dating system was devised in 525, but was not widely used until after 800)
(the gregorian calendar is the most widely used calendar in the world today)
(for decades, it has been the ‘unofficial global standard’, adopted in the pragmatic interests of international communication, transportation, and commercial integration, and recognized by international institutions such as the “united nations”)
(traditionally, English followed Latin usage by placing the “AD” abbreviation before the year number)
(however, BC is placed after the year number (for example: AD 2016, but 68 BC), which also preserves syntactic order)
(the abbreviation is also widely used after the number of a century or millennium, as in “fourth century AD” or “second millennium AD” (although conservative usage formerly rejected such expressions))
(because BC is the English abbreviation for Before Christ, it is sometimes incorrectly concluded that AD means After Death, i.e., after the death of Jesus)
(however, this would mean that the approximate 33 years commonly associated with the life of Jesus would not be included in either of the BC and the AD time scales)
(terminology that is viewed by some as being more ‘neutral’ and ‘inclusive of’ ‘non-christian people’ is to call this the ‘current’ (or ‘common’) era (abbreviated as CE), with the preceding years referred to as “before the (‘common’ / ‘christian’ /’current’) era (BCE))
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(“astronomical year numbering” + “ISO 8601” avoid words or abbreviations related to “christianity”, but use the same numbers for ‘AD years’)
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