JESUS CHRIST

The most popular calendar in use throughout the world today is known as the Gregorian or Western calendar established in 1582. It is based on the assumption that Jesus Christ was born on the year 1. Those years before the birth of Jesus are designated as BC and those years following his birth are designated AD.
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Dinoysius first proposed the use of BC and AD around 525. It took many centuries before all Christian Western countries finally adopted the system, but it was finally incorporated in the Gregorian or Western calendar. In English, BC refers to “Before Christ.” However, AD does not refer to “After Death,” as many assume. Rather, AD represents the Latin words, Anno Domini which mean “year of the Lord” or more properly “Anno Domini Nostri Iesus Christi” (the year of our Lord Jesus Christ), referring to the birth of Jesus Christ. (more…)