17th April 2003, 12:30 PM
Anno Domini means 'In the Year of Our Lord". Ie after Jesus dies, I think.
And yes, 1 AD was supposed to be when he died but because of how the guy who invented the system wasn't exactly accurate it isn't correct... and of course because he'd never heard of 'zero' we've got a system where the zero year is actually the last year of the previous decade/century/millenia...
Oh, and I think Jesus was born in 20 or 30 something (no way for us to be sure of course... it could have been 4 BC, maybe...)...
Also, we know plenty about those years... from Roman records. They just didn't record any details that would have related to Jesus...
And yes, 1 AD was supposed to be when he died but because of how the guy who invented the system wasn't exactly accurate it isn't correct... and of course because he'd never heard of 'zero' we've got a system where the zero year is actually the last year of the previous decade/century/millenia...
Oh, and I think Jesus was born in 20 or 30 something (no way for us to be sure of course... it could have been 4 BC, maybe...)...
Also, we know plenty about those years... from Roman records. They just didn't record any details that would have related to Jesus...