What is the first year ever recorded in history?

Question

I am talking about ever

Answer 1

The first known civilization, the Sumerians, began about 3500 B.C. and the first known records started around that time.

Answer 2

James Ussher (1581-1656), Archbishop of Armagh, Primate of All Ireland, and Vice-Chancellor of Trinity College in Dublin was highly regarded in his day as a churchman and as a scholar. Of his many works, his treatise on chronology has proved the most durable. Based on an intricate correlation of Middle Eastern and Mediterranean histories and Holy writ, it was incorporated into an authorized version of the Bible printed in 1701, and thus came to be regarded with almost as much unquestioning reverence as the Bible itself. Having established the first day of creation as Sunday 23 October 4004 BC, Ussher calculated the dates of other biblical events, concluding, for example, that Adam and Eve were driven from Paradise on Monday 10 November 4004 BC, and that the ark touched down on Mt Ararat on 5 May 2348 BC `on a Wednesday'.

Your question is impossible to answer really, because ancient civilisations used different chronologies to ours. The earliest recorded date in the Egyptian calendar is 4241BCE (i.e. earlier than when Bishop Usher said the world was created !)

Answer 3

It may have been recorded, but the records have been lost. Folks haven't always been keen on putting dates down and preserving things like we used to here. Even today, we are often too lazy to think such things are worth noting. I've got stacks of stuff in my home. If a truck ran over me on the way home, my family would probably start sifting through the things to sort out the important stuff, maybe they would quickly grow tired and simply pitch the rest in the trash. What was worth keeping to me won't be for them. Human records and history is full of that. People may have recorded things, but that was a long, long time ago. I like the lines in Tolkein's Lord of the Rings, something like, "Things that shouldn't have been forgotten were. Fact became legend, legend became myth, and none now live who remember them."

Answer 4

its impossible to even tell. people back then had different ways of caculating day and time. kinda like we know the world has been around more than 2006/2007 years ad. so i guess it was probaly 2006 years ago counting back from the death of christ when people really paid attention.

Answer 5

I'could be wrong but I think the sumarians had the first calendars.

Answer 6

i dont kno...u tell me