Authors:
Steven Pemberton
Our method of counting the years is due to a Scythian monk, Dionysius Exiguus, who in about 523 AD decided we should count the years since Jesus's birth instead of since the reign of the emperor Diocletian, who hadn't been particularly nice to Christians. Unfortunately we do not know exactly how he determined the date of Jesus's birth, and of course, since he was working before the invention (some would say discovery) of the number zero, he started counting at 1 as well. There are some methodological problems with determining the number of years involved. To start with, we…
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