When did the calendar start,when our Lord was born or at the crucifixion?

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I always wondered if AC started at the first Christmas.
Do Islamic people have their own calendar, like the chinese have their own,or the go by the Christian one?If they have their own,in what number year are theirs and how did it originate?
 
Tamsulosin said:
I always wondered if AC started at the first Christmas.
Do Islamic people have their own calendar, like the chinese have their own,or the go by the Christian one?If they have their own,in what number year are theirs and how did it originate?
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If you are asking when people started dating things from the birth of Christ, the answer is that it wasn’t about a half-millennium after the fact. Prior to then, people in the Roman sphere dated things from the founding of Rome (753 BC), by the names of the two consuls for the year, and/or with the regnal year of the emperor. Dionysius Exiguus is generally credited with the idea of counting the birth of Christ as the year 1, and it’s due to his historical mistake that Christ was actually born most likely in or before 4 BC, which is when Herod the Great died. This article on Chronology may also be of interest. As to other calendars in use, you can get further information here.
 
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I always wondered if AC started at the first Christmas.
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I believe it was Nikola Tesla who invented alternating current in the 1880s. 🙂

Seriously, you can look in wikipedia for “Anno Domine” or “Common Era” for information on the history of Western calendars. Apparently, there was no Year Zero, as the Gregorian calendar went from 1 BC to 1 AD. All historians can do is guess when the actual birthdate of Jesus was.

Yes, Islam has their own calendar as does Judaism.
 
I have a strong hunch that Jesus was born of the virgin sometime in the summer August.
 
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Seriously, you can look in wikipedia for “Anno Domine” or “Common Era” for information on the history of Western calendars. Apparently, there was no Year Zero, as the Gregorian calendar went from 1 BC to 1 AD. All historians can do is guess when the actual birthdate of Jesus was.
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Well, the calendar did not “go” from 1 BC to 1 AD. It was invented in the sixth century, and simply defined as having no Year 0.

As to the birthdate of Jesus, historians can do a bit better than guess. (And, of course, Dionysius Exiguus was a historian, and probably would be offended at the suggestion that he was just taking a random stab.) For instance, the evidence we now have makes it extremely probable that Herod the Great died in 4 BC. If the Gospels are to be believed, then, that it was Herod who ordered the Massacre of the Innocents at the time of Christ’s nativity, the event could not have happened later than that date.
 
The somewhat clearly defined date in the New Testament is when Jesus started to teach: in the 15th year of Tiberius Cesar (Luke 3:1) Also Luke 3:23 says that Jesus was about 30 years old on that time. Dionisius Exiguus in the 5th Century calculated from that backward the birth-year of Christ.

The meaning is that the Incarnation brought the redemption to the Earth, the year are Anno Domini, the years of our Lord since His birth.
 
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