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What year is it? (ani.social)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Took me a second

They wouldn't call the year 59 bc in 59 bc

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

They would probably not speak Modern English either.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Okay, honest question: what did they call it then, if anything?

Because it's not like they planned on counting down to the future "messiah's" birthday.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

You have to look at non-Christian calendars.

It was 2275 in Korea.

It was 265 of the 33rd dynasty in Egypt.

It was 2 of the 180th Olympiad in Greece.

More here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/59_BC

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

The Romans named their years after who was elected Consul that year. There were two Consuls, so you'd say "in the consulship of Jones and Smith". 59BC was Julius Caesar and some other guy. The other guy was so unimportant that Romans joked by calling it the consulship of "Julius and Caesar".

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (2 children)

So, what would somebody say the year was if they were asked at that point?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

A universal calendar hasn't been established yet so it would depend on where you are.

For example today in 59 BC under the Athenian calendar would be 17 of Thargelion, Ol.180.1

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

In Egypt they would say the 8th year of Cleopatra VII Thea Philopator

[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 months ago

No they wouldn’t. They would say something similar BUT IN OLDE WORLDY EGYPTIAN.