RE: Christian Nation
October 28, 2012 at 12:02 am
(This post was last modified: October 28, 2012 at 12:03 am by Darkstar.)
(October 27, 2012 at 11:53 pm)chi pan Wrote:(October 27, 2012 at 11:48 pm)Ryantology Wrote: Was it common to write dates out in that format in the 1780s?
no, but you missed the point.
Anno Domini
wikipedia Wrote:Anno Domini (AD or A.D.) and Before Christ (BC or B.C.) are designations used to label or number years used with the Julian and Gregorian calendars.
wikipedia Wrote:On the continent of Europe, Anno Domini was introduced as the era of choice of the Carolingian Renaissance by Alcuin. Its endorsement by Emperor Charlemagne and his successors popularizing the usage of the epoch and spreading it throughout the Carolingian Empire ultimately lies at the core of the system's prevalence. According to the Catholic Encyclopedia, popes continued to date documents according to regnal years for some time, but usage of AD gradually became more common in Roman Catholic countries from the 11th to the 14th centuries. In 1422, Portugal became the last Western European country to switch to the system begun by Dionysius. Eastern Orthodox countries only began to adopt AD instead of the Byzantine calendar in 1700 when Russia did so, with others adopting it in the 19th and 20th centuries.Just as I thought: almost everybody was already using it.
