Which of the following dates is presented incorrectly?

Question

56 B.C.
104 A.D.

Answer 1

Hello Dominoes. <--It's got a ring to the rhyme. Nice.

Trick question.
Regardless vvhat anyone says, they are both correct. Any vvay may be used, though the accepted, and possiblie proper vvay, vvould be to vvrite the A.D. before the year.

Dictionary.com Unabridged states: —Usage note Because anno Domini means “in the year of the Lord,” its abbreviation a.d. was originally placed before rather than after a date: The Roman conquest of Britain began in a.d. 43 (or began a.d. 43). In edited writing, it is still usually placed before the date. But, by analogy with the position of b.c. “before Christ,” which always appears after a date (Caesar was assassinated in 44 b.c.), a.d. is also frequently found after the date in all types of writing, including historical works: The Roman emperor Claudius I lived from 10 b.c. to 54 a.d. Despite its literal meaning, a.d. is also used to designate centuries, being placed after the specified century: the second century a.d.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/A.D.

Dictionary.com Unabridged also states: —Usage note 5. The abbreviation b.c. “before Christ” is always placed after a date or century: Cleopatra lived from 69 to 30 b.c. The war took place in the first century b.c.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/b.c.


American Heritage New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy states: The abbreviation may appear before the date (a.d. 1988), or it may appear after the date (1988 a.d.). It stands for anno Domini, a Latin phrase meaning “in the year of our Lord.”
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/A.D.


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For truth is alvvays strange; stranger than fiction.
-Lord Byron

Answer 2

104 ad

Answer 3

It's often "A.D. 104".

Actually I think the current preference is for "BCE" and "CE" ("before the common era" and "common era")

Answer 4

They are both correct.