Right now its year of 2007. So who started 1?

Question

So when was 1. Did someone just say ohh im gonna start counting years or what?
and can some explain to me the Years "BC" "AD" and stuff like that.

Thanks so much! God Bless!

Answer 1

don't think so.

BC= Before Christ
AD=Anno Domini or in the year of the Lord.

Year 1 coincides with Christ's first birthday.

Answer 2

AD= Anno Domini or Year of our Lord. It should technically be written before the year in question (or AD 2007).
BC= Before Christ; BCE=Before Christian Era; CE= either Christian, Current, or Common Era.
AD years number forward, while BC/BCE number years backwards ("The Roman emperor lived between 75 and 30 BC, making him 45 when he died.")
There is no year 0 in any given era names except in the ASTRONOMICAL and ISO (International Organization of Standardization) systems. The astronomical system is, naturally, used in astronomy, and is based on AD/CE numbering. Since it has a year 0, the year 1 BC is labeled 0, 2 BC is labeled 1, etc. Only the sciences of astronomy, archaeology, geology and history use the BC/AD numbering systems. The ISO system uses a listing of the date and time from the largest number (year) to the smallest (seconds), so for example January 6, 2007 would be written as 20070106 in its Basic format, and as either 2007-01-06 or 2007:01:06 in its Extended format. It uses a 4 number year to avoid the 2000 problem (if just 00 was used, it could be confused with 1900, 1800, etc)

Answer 3

BC = Before Christ.
AD = Anno Domini (Latin, meaning, at least roughly, "In the year of our lord").

There was no year zero.
1 BC is the year before Christ's birth
1 AD is the following year.

Then we get into various discussions which I leave for other questioners:
1. non-christian religions can be, understandably, unhappy that year numbering is based on a christian concept (hence BP = Before Present etc)
2. even if the christian basis for year numbering is accepted, the sources for the stories are, arguably, up a to a couple of centuries out so 1 AD is not necessarily accurate.

Answer 4

It all started 2007 years ago when Jesus Christ was born.

BC = Before Christ (used in indicating dates).

AD = anno domini; it's Latin meaning, in the year of the Lord.(used in dates to mean after the birth of Jesus Christ; also used by non-Christians)
Example: in 630 AD; in the seventh century AD

Answer 5

1 was the first anniversary of christ dying i think. So BC means Before Christ and AD means After Death but they changed it to BCE Before Common Era and ACE After Common Era.