RE: Where would you restart the calendar?
February 25, 2015 at 12:42 am
(This post was last modified: February 25, 2015 at 12:47 am by Anomalocaris.)
I think either 240BC or 1522AD deserve consideration as origin points of a calendar system.
240 BC is year of the first accurate measurement of earth's circumference. 1522 AD is the year of the first circumnavigation of the earth.
I also think 1492 AD is much more significant to human history than merely marking the vastly important discovery and colonization of America. It mark something even more portentous - the beginning of globalization of human civilization and that makes it for me the true beginning of the modern era.
240 BC is year of the first accurate measurement of earth's circumference. 1522 AD is the year of the first circumnavigation of the earth.
I also think 1492 AD is much more significant to human history than merely marking the vastly important discovery and colonization of America. It mark something even more portentous - the beginning of globalization of human civilization and that makes it for me the true beginning of the modern era.
