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Anno Domini

Western calendar era

6 dated entries naming Anno Domini, drawn from 6 separate years between 470 CE and 1700 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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5th century

  • 470Dionysius Exiguus, inventor of the Anno Domini era (approximate date)source

6th century

  • 525Dionysius Exiguus, Scythian theologian-mathematician, inaugurates the practice of using A.D. (Anno Domini) in Rome for calendar dates after the birth of Jesus Christ, a system which has been supported by subsequent studies. Dionysius also produces his tables for computing the date of "Cyclus Paschalis" (Easter Tables).source
  • 532First year in which the Anno Domini calendar is used for numbering the years.source
  • 544Dionysius Exiguus, inventor of the Anno Domini era (approximate date)source

14th century

  • 1372The city of Aachen, Germany, begins adding a Roman numeral Anno Domini date to a few of its coins, the first city in the world to do so.source

17th century

  • 1700January 1 (Julian) (January 11, Gregorian) – The Tsardom of Russia begins numbering its calendar from the birth of Christ (Anno Domini), instead of since the Creation (Anno Mundi).source

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