Year Zero

                            YEAR ZERO





 This is my 1st post in this blog and this blog is all about chronicles of our ancient world.This is my first post so i would like to start with 1st century A.D.
   Before that I want to discuss about  ZERO YEAR which is not in the Anno Domini (simply A D)
which was introduced by a monk  Dionysius Exiguus (in C. 525 ).

 Dionysius Exiguus

In AD he didn't use any Zero Year 1 AD is followed by 1 BC by skipping Zero Year. Dionysius used it for to computing Easter Table but he didn't used to take any historical events in AD . It had came into the picture after 100 years by st. Bede an English cleric.

ST. Bede

Bede didn't use year zero because at that time the zero was not existed in Roman Numerical.The zero was invented in India 6th century and developed by arabs in 8th century.

 

Arabic and Roman Numbers

Historians were also not used the zero year they skipped year zero after 1 BC then continued with 1 AD.


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                          2 BC                1 BC                       1 AD          2 AD

if you want to find the how many years in between 2 BC to 2 AD is 3 years.

Even negative numbers are also not introduced at that time.

But in some Hindu and Buddhist calendars the year was begin with zero.