WHAT DO DATES MEAN?
AD : Anno Domini
- The present date generally assigned to the birth of JESUS CHRIST, the founder of CHRISTIANITY.
- The dates after the birth of Lord CHRIST
- Basically represent as AD, stands for two Latin words – Anno and Domini
- AD means 'in the year of Lord'(i.e. Christ)
- Means years started with the birth of Lord Christ
- When we say year 2000, it states that the time span of two thousand years after the birth of Lord.
BC: BEFORE CHRIST
- All the dates before the birth of Christ are counted backwards and usually have the letters BC, means Before Christ.
- If we are talking about 200 BC, then we have to add 200 years with the current year i.e.2022.
- It means we are talking about the story of (200+2022) 2222 years ago.
- Sometimes CE is used instead of AD and BCE and BP instead of BC.
- CE stands for Common Era.
- BCE stands for Before Common Era.
- BP stands for Before Present.
- Most of the countries of the world now using Christian Era and calendar used widely is The Gregorian Calendar.
- We began using this form dating from about two hundred years ago in India.