And also the meaning of A.D. and B.C.?
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2007-10-31 12:19:50 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Other - Education
B.C. and A.D. are religious abbreviations we still use today coming from "Before Christ" and "Anno Domini-(in the year of our lord)" Most people Use C.E. and BCE (common era, and before common era). The beginning of time, scientifically? BYA, Billions of years Ago. WHo knows?
2007-10-31 12:29:23 · answer #1 · answered by laydlo 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A.D. stands for the Latin Anno Domini, or Year of the Lord.
B.C. is short for Before Christ.
A.D. begins with the date January 1, 1 A.D. B.C. ends with December 31, 1 B.C. There is no year zero in either system and yes, I do realize these were not the days of the year at that time, but this is projecting our calendar back to then.
2007-10-31 19:30:46 · answer #2 · answered by Tom K 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A.D. = Anno Domini = the year of the lord.
basically after Christ's birth. NOT after death, as is commonly believed, b/c then there would have been a thirty three year gap where the years weren't numbered!
B.C. = before Christ
pretty straightforward.
just fyi, they got it wrong! Jesus was actually born around 4 BC!
2007-10-31 19:49:37 · answer #3 · answered by snakegrrl 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
anno domini (year of the Lord) referring to Jesus. he was born in year one by this reckoning. AD
BC: before Christ. Goes backwards. 1000 years BC is nearer to the present than 1000000 BC. Dinosaurs were wiped out about 64 million years BC. These days because of antireligious feeling BC is called Before Current Era and is also writen BCE
The earth is about 5 billion years old. The universe: wel who knows; maybe 20 billion, ive no idea. We think time began at the Big Bang, which may have been a collosal explosion of the last massive black hole which had swalloed the previous universe. but what is time anyway?
2007-10-31 19:30:20 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A.D. = Anno Domini = Year of the Lord
B.C. = Before Christ
A.D. was suppsed to begin with the birth of Christ (although actually, it would have to have been a few years earlier).
The new terms, BCE (before common era) and CE (common era) are used to avoid the religious implications.
2007-10-31 19:34:39 · answer #5 · answered by Mich 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Originaly it meant Before Christ, and AD was supposed to mean the years after.
2007-10-31 19:29:13 · answer #6 · answered by Belgariad 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋