If we met on the street in 100 B.C. and I asked you the date how would you express the year?

Answer 1

you would probably be using a different calender,
Gregorian calendar 100 BC =
Ab urbe condita 654
Bahá'í calendar -1943 – -1942
Buddhist calendar 445
Chinese calendar 2537/2597
Ethiopian calendar -107 – -106
Hebrew calendar 3661 – 3662
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat -44 – -43
- Shaka Samvat N/A
- Kali Yuga 3002 – 3003
Holocene calendar 9901
Iranian calendar 721 BP – 720 BP
Islamic calendar 743 BH – 742 BH
Japanese calendar
- Imperial Year Kōki 561
- Jōmon Era 9901
Julian calendar -54
Korean calendar 2234
Thai solar calendar 444

Answer 2

The Egyptians may have been the first to develope a solar calendar in about 4200BC. Their days were indicated by number and listed according to their months. A calendar date would be listed as year 1 and the 4th month of inundation, then day 5, and under the name of the Pharaoh at that time.

Pope Gregory XIII was born in 1502 and died in 1585. He carried out the reform of the Julian calendar. In 1582 he issued a decree dropping 10 days from the calendar which is now known as the Gregorian Calendar and today it serves as an international standard for civil use. In addition, it regulates the ceremonial cycle of the Christian Churches. In fact, its original purpose was ecclesiastical. However, this calendar still requires intercalation (inserting). There must be a leap day or a leap second at times in order to bring the calendar back into sync with the vernal equinox. Although a variety of other calendars are in use today, they are restricted to particular religions or cultures.

Answer 3

depending on the region, It would be the something like the 3rd full moon of the reign of the local king

The AD/BC of modern calenders mean Anno Domini(Year of the Lord) and Before Christ why one is english and the other Latin I don't know.

The PC Police have changed it now to BCE/CE before current era/current era.

In most areas before the rise of Christianity years were still express as the 'third year of King Edd', when when faith in JC took over the past was re-scored applying the new dates going back to JC's birth, this why most scholars now belive that Christ was really born in 3-4 BC and died in 29AD.

It isn't that Mary had JC and all of a sudden all calendars everywhere reset to January one, year one.

Answer 4

Does anyone really know? When did the Julian calendar start? Wasn't that the first European calendar? I don't think I know. Great question--thought provoking. Great for an ancient history bonus question!

Answer 5

It would depend on what society you're from. If we were in a Buddhist country, I'd say the year was 443 (the current year on the Buddhist calendar is 2550).

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Answer 7

I think (but I'm not sure), that years were expressed generationally. The year of king such and such, or the year of our Lord (meaning God), or other such expressions depending on your tribe, or your culture, etc. It would vary since we have so many different calendars.

Answer 8

by pounding you on the head with my club the appropriate
number of times.
wait, how would you ask me?
wait, "on the street" in 100 BC?
wait, do we exist yet?

Answer 9

Easy:
"It's the second year after the big clan gathering buffalo cookout."

Answer 10

http://www.ernie.cummings.net/calendar.htm#ORG

History of the Calendar