When it was 5BC what date was it in the Roman empire?

Question

I've asked this question but I'm not satisfied with the answer.
In the year 5bc and before ,yer man, was born, And with him,religeon they must have kept some sort of calender.
One well educated person answered this question telling me that the years were named after consuls.,and years didn't count.
He names Publius Ccornelius Scipio Africanus as an example.
What a load of cr+p.
Imgine one Roman soldier asking his mate his age , and he gets the answer: I was born in the year of Publius Coornelius............
During the period just before ,yer man, arrived on the scene the Romans kept records which tell us what the soldiers had for breakfast.
They must have had a dating system

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Answer 1

When it came to people's ages they usually rounded them to the nearest 5 or 10 years, which is evidenced on grave stones from the period, except for young children whose ages were remembered more closely.

Answer 2

The Romans dated their calendar generally(for Julius Caesar reformed it) from the 21st of April 753 B.C. when Romulus and Remus were proported to have founded Rome. It was the day of the fight between the brothers and when Romulus killed Remus.

Therefore when it was 5 B.C. then it was the year 749 AUC(from the foundation of the city). As 753 B.C. was YEAR ONE-then 748 years which is the time from 753 B.C. to 5 B.C. would have been the year 749 AUC. 748 + 1 being 749. Therefore Augustus who was born in our year of 65 B.C. would have given his birth in Roman terms as being born in the year: 689 AUC. However he died in our year 14 A.D. This would make his death in the year:
767 AUC. Because there was no year "0" , when you reach the year 1 B.C. it is 753 AUC. Being 1 + 752. Therefore all you do then is put 753 and add the year A.D. For instance in the year 249A.D. Rome had it's millenium(1,000 anniversary). 753 + 247
being 1,000. This was in the reign of Phillip the Arab.

What the Roman soldiers had for breakfast? They had a hardened wheat biscuit called BUCCALATI when they were in the field and when they were in forts etc they had a bit of bread, maybe porridge and a bit of wine. Records have been extensively kept-especially for the Roman Empire. There is so much from that empire that most Roman coins today are very common and have little value. There are so many of them. I myself in the 70s when I used to collect coins purchase three Roman SESTERCII for $3 each. The records are there. Hope this helps.

Answer 3

Obviously, The Romans did not think of their years in terms of years before or after Christ was born. That is what is commonly refered to as the Gregorian Calendar, named after Pope Gregory the XIII, which was instituted in 1582 CE.

Ancient Rome used the term "Ab Urbe Condita" shortened to A.U.C, which translates to "From the Founding of our City", that city obviously being Rome itself. The Romans kept dates starting with the mythical founding of Rome, which is placed as 753 BCE. To a Roman, 753 BCE would have been 0 AUC, the year Christ was born was 753 AUC. The year that the Empire was officially terminated to us is 476 CE, to them it would have been 1,229 AUC. Rome Celebrated 1000 AUC under the otherwise unremarkable Emperor Phillip the Arab in 248 CE.

However, the previous answer that you recieved is partially right. The vast majority of Romans simply didn't use AUC on a daily basis. If you are a farmer without a mechanical clock or reliable calendar, how the heck do you remember exactly what day it is? Therefore most Romans remembered years according to which Consul served that year. Even Julius Caesar, in his Commentaries on the Gallic Wars, did not refer to any year in terms of AUC, he refered to them as "In the year of the consulship of..."

To answer your question, 5 BCE to a Roman would have been 749 AUC. For a Layman Roman, it would have been in the year of the Consulship of L. Cornelius Sulla and Caesar Augustus.

I hope this answers your question.

Answer 4

Your well-educated person is correct, in part. The years were indeed named after the consuls of the period. 205BC was "The year of the consulship of Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus and Publius Licinius Crassus." So 5BC would be just what the Bible says: "In the year of Caesar Augustus." Actually it would be "The year of the consulship of Imperium Caesar Augustus XII and Cornelius Sulla."

Answer 5

That's a great question. From what I read about the Roman Empire, the dating system was based on a ruling period much like the Chinese dynasties. If you were born in 5BC, you were a Ceasoronian.....good luck!

Answer 6

It was considered the year 748 in the Roman calendar(Rome was founded in the year 753 BC)

Answer 7

The romans went by a system of dating like this : It is the 3rd year a emporers rule, so it would be in the 3rd year of ____(emperor) rule

Answer 8

there are several different calenders with several different years available.

maybe this will help

http://www.tyndale.cam.ac.uk/Egypt/ptolemies/chron/roman/chron_rom_cal.htm