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 11 hours agoWas it though? Like back then?
NovaSel@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
scala@lemmy.ml 10 hours ago
Back then it was technically the year 3000 something of recorded history. Christianity declared that that’s when time started.
shawn1122@sh.itjust.works 7 hours ago
Romans but yes, Christian Romans after the religion took over the empire.