Back then they didn’t use Jesus’s birth (or at least, the date Dionysius Exiguus thought was Jesus’s birth) as the epoch for counting the years.
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Obi@sopuli.xyz 2 months agoWas it though? Like back then?
NovaSel@lemmy.world 2 months ago
scala@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Back then it was technically the year 3000 something of recorded history. Christianity declared that that’s when time started.
mcv@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Are you sure about that 3000? I thought at the time it was mostly the 6th year of the rule of some king, emperor or governor (Herod, Augustus or Quirinius, most likely), although the Bible doesn’t even provide those kind of dates.
As far as I’m aware, having a single universal reckoning is something that Christianity invented in the middle ages. But still based on the rule of Jesus as king, of course.
scala@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Yes. So there are a few calendars before the Christian calendar.
Roman empire calendar started 753B.C. which was considered Year One ab urbe condita or A.U.C. which would be 2778AUC today.
The Byzantine Empire year one began on sep1. 5509BC. It would be 7509AM(Anno Mundi) year today
The Chinese calendar is year 4722 today.
There are many many more calendars out there. The bible is a fictional book spread by misinformation and slaughter to shove their teachings and taking over many religions imposing the “Common” calendar on the majority of the world.
shawn1122@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Romans but yes, Christian Romans after the religion took over the empire.