how many years in BC before AD appeared? AD is after christ and BC is before but what yr does BC go up to for it to become AD?
2006-12-09 02:46:33 · 25 answers · asked by allgiggles1984 6 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
BC goes up to 0 (that being the point at which christ came), Anno Domini (the year of our lord) goes from then onward.
So, 12 BC was 12 years before Christ for example, and 12 AD was 12 years after his birth.
2006-12-09 03:13:54 · answer #1 · answered by fizzy_wolf 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
BC stands for "Before Christ"; however, AD stands for "Anno Domini", which is Latin for "The year of our Lord." Theoretically, BC would have counted DOWN from whenever people started counting until the birth of Jesus, which would have presumably been the year 1, at which time AD would have started. However, since people didn't know when Jesus was to have been born, they didn't know how many years BC they were living. All that aside, people in "BC" time didn't KNOW it was BC, so they obviously didn't use the "BC" suffix for their years. Nobody knows exactly when Jesus was born, so nobody truly knows when the last year BC was, or the first year AD. Our present date is an approximation.
This system of dating doesn't make a lot of sense to those who aren't Christian; but since it's commonly used in today's world, a more correct system is BCE and CE - "Before the Common Era" and "Common Era" respectively. There are many other calenders out there, as well. On the Jewish calendar, for instance, it's presently the year 5767! The Chinese have yet another calendar (unfortunately, I'm not as familiar with that one), and I'm sure there are any number of others.
2006-12-09 03:21:16 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Christ was born approximately in the year 4 or 5 BC; [2] The reign of King David (the culminating point for the Maciejowski Bible) is known to have been from 1010 BC to 970 BC (he reigned for 40 years); [3] Adam and Eve sinned by eating the forbidden fruit somewhere* between 4004 - 4092 BC; [4] "The Creation" has been calculated as being 6844 years prior to Adam & Eve's original sin, thereby placing it somewhere* between the years 10936 - 11004 BC."
I know its religious in nature, but this is the closest I could find to an all inclusive time frame for BC. Its from the second link in the source box. There is a lot of speculation about the exact date 1 AD, so I don't think you can have a definitive answer for that. The first link, to Wikpedia, explains AD quite well. Hope this is what you were looking for.
2006-12-09 03:05:43 · answer #3 · answered by aidan402 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
BC is before Christ
AD is Anno Domini (in the year of our lord)
1 BC was followed by 1 AD. No year 0.
Since exact dates are questionable its very academic.
Dates get more significant and accurate from the 1st century.
BC is becoming non PC these days. Many people now use BCE (Before Common Era) This is a PC term to placate non-Christians.
2006-12-09 02:51:58 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
BC - Before Christ
AD - Anno Domini, the year of our Lord
BC goes "up" to 1 year BC and AD starts at 1 AD
2006-12-09 02:56:32 · answer #5 · answered by CapeCodGram 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
BC is before Christ, and AD is anno domini, which means Year of the Lord, which starts around the time of Christ's birth. BC counts backward from that point, though we don't know exactly how far back it goes.
2006-12-09 02:49:39 · answer #6 · answered by Adriana 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
BC are the years before jesus birth(going down to 1) and AD are the years afterwards(starting from 1)
2006-12-09 02:49:09 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
A curious mix of languages here, probably the fault of the Anglo Saxons who were never very good at Latin.
BC = before Christ
AD = after Death or anno Domini.
Any history which took place before the birth of Christ, is dated as x-years BC. So that in approximately 50BC Julius Caesar arrived in Britain. From this point, British history starts. Before the arrival of JC (note the initials) in UK there were no written records.
2006-12-10 04:53:44 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hiya allgiggle....
seems to me a few folk havent read ur full question....!!
BC doesn't go up to anything...it comes down. Apparently there never was a year zero. AD meaning "in the year of our lord" starts at 1 AD....BC was before Christ......so the year comes DOWN to 1 BC....
knowing what BC goes up to depends on whether you believe in creation or evolution. As modern human skeletons have allegedly been dated to 130,000 years old....yet reading the Bible we are lead to believe the Earth to be about 6,000 years old, give or take a few hundred years.
Hope this helps?!!
2006-12-09 03:38:45 · answer #9 · answered by ~☆ Petit ♥ Chou ☆~ 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Say it all started at 10,000 B.C. then it counts down to 1 B.C. then Christ is born and the it becomes
A. D. Anno Domini (in the year of our Lord) Of course this is just for modern man's convenience people at the time marked the year differently, from the year of foundation of the City of Rome I think.
2006-12-09 02:56:08 · answer #10 · answered by ♣ My Brainhurts ♣ 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋