• blitzen@lemmy.ca
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    2 days ago

    Dionysius did not use a year zero; the year preceding AD 1 was 1 BC.

    • “The Oxford Companion to the Year” by Blackburn & Holford-Strevens

    There was not a year zero. This isn’t a conspiracy theory.

    • Malfeasant@lemm.ee
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      18 hours ago

      BC and AD are separate numbering schemes- so just because there is no year 0 defined doesn’t mean you can’t extrapolate - 0 AD is the same as 1 BC, and you’ll have -1 AD which is equivalent to 2 BC and so forth…