Can anybody figure out what day of the week January 1, year ZERO, would have been?

Question

Perpetual calendars don't do it. I know there was a big switch in the Dark Ages that has to be accounted for. I have always been curious so if you know, I'd appreciate knowing, too. Don't go to any big trouble to figure this out. Just curious.

Answer 1

There is no such thing as year 0. Dates go like this:

... 10 BC, 9BC, 8BC, 7BC, 6BC, 5BC, 4BC, 3BC, 2BC, 1BC, AD1, AD2, AD3, AD4, AD5, AD6 ...

And anyway, that would depend on whose calender you wanted to go by at the time. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorian_calendar

Answer 2

First off, there is no year zero. You don't start counting anything in a set or group, like a handful of pennies, by calling the first one you count "zero"--the first one you count is 1. This is why this millennium did not start until 2001. The year 2000 was the 1000th year in the set of years making up the last millennium. The 12 month period up to when Christ was born is 1 BC. The day He was born was year 1 AD. And, yes, there have been major changes to the calendar over the centuries. To make months and dates correspond a bit better to the location of the rising/setting Sun whole weeks have been discarded--just as an example by someone's decree the date would go from September 1st of whatever year and the very next day was officially September 8th.

Answer 3

FOR THE UMPTEENTH TIME, THERE WAS NO YEAR ZERO. 1 BC WAS FOLLOWED BY 1 AD. PERPETUAL CALENDARS WON'T ACCOUNT FOR THE GREGORIAN CALENDAR CHANGE. IN 1582, 10 DAYS WERE DROPPED FROM THE CALENDAR, BECAUSE JULIUS CAESAR'S CALENDAR INCORPORATING A LEAP YEAR EVERY FOURTH YEAR MADE EACH CALENDAR YEAR 11 MIN AND 14 SEC LONGER THAN THE SOLAR YEAR. FOR THIS REASO, THE EARTH WOULD HAVE MOVED FORWARD IN ITS ORBIT RELATIVE TO IT S EXPECTED POSITION ON ANY GIVEN DATE, EG. 21 MARCH (VERNAL EQUINOX). AS VERNAL EQUINOX KEPT COMING EARLIER, POPE GREGORY DROPPED 10 DAYS IN 1582, SO THE DAY AFTER OCTOBER 4TH WAS OCTOBER 15TH. IN ORDER TO KEEP THIS CALENDAR IN SYNC WITH THE LENGTH OF EARTH'S ORBIT, HE PROPOSED THAT Century years divisible evenly by 400 should be leap years and that all other century years should be common years. Thus, 1600 was a leap year, but 1700 and 1800 were common years. THIS IS WHY PERPETUAL CALENDARS DON'T GIVE ACCURATE DATES

Answer 4

Neither Julian nor Gregorean calendars contain a Year Zero. The first year of each century is 01 not 00.

Answer 5

There is no year "ZERO" it would have been year 01....
The passing of the first year would have been midnight, January first year 02.
As for the day of the of the week, well if you believe in God, It would have been a Sunday, the day of rest.

Answer 6

There was an episode of Animaniacs where Yakko and Dot played a game of chess for Wakko's soul. The grim reaper mentions the beginning of time, and to the best of my memory, said, "I think it was a Tuesday. Very few people know that."

Yakko and Dot won the game, if you were wondering.

Answer 7

IN THE BEGINNING.. (read Genesis) It had to be Monday, because the last day was Sunday..the day of rest..