what do you call the time between BC and AD?

Question

Does the 33 years between BC and AD have a name?If an event fall within those 33 years,how do you date it?

Answer 1

AD stands for Anno Domini in the year of our Lord, not after death as some think. So there is no time between. AD is referenced at the birth of Christ.

Answer 2

Years Between Bc And Ad

Answer 3

AD doesn't stand for after death. It stands for Anno Domini. There is no time between the eras, nor does the change over match when the Bible says he was born. In one book it says he was born, at the latest, in 6 BC. In another book it says he was born, at the earliest, in AD 4 (yes, that's how you write it if you use AD. Writing "400 AD" is grammatically incorrect). Since it's clearly too easy for people to be confused, just go with the civil names for them instead of the religious names. BCE and CE (Before Common Era, and Common Era).

Answer 4

There is no time between BC (Before Christ) and AD (anno domini - the year of our Lord). AD doesn't stand for "After Death". It is supposed to be the year Christ was born. Hence Jesus was supposedly born in AD 1. I say supposedly because the medieval people who worked out this system got the date of His birth slightly wrong and He is now thought to have been born in 6 or 7 BC.

Answer 5

Todd is correct. Also, there was no year zero; the year after 1BC was 1AD. That is why many people say the twenty first century started on Jan 1, 2001; not Jan 1, 2000. The argument still rages.

Answer 6

There is no in between. After 1 B.C. comes 1 A.D.; the "problem" lies in the fact that A.D. is commonly misunderstood to mean After Death, but it's actually a Latin abbreviation for "in the year of our Lord."

Answer 7

the years before death of chryst are bc and after ad.

Answer 8

The year zero