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''Anno Domini'' is [[Latin]], conventionally translated into [[English]] as "in the year of the Lord." The conventional abbreviation is '''AD'''; periods after each letter are an optional matter of style, but modern usage dislikes them.
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AD is a fool's way of referring to years in what is now more reasonably called the Common Era. Christianity can't last forever. Someday the world will be free of this foolishness.
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AD is sometimes misinterpreted as being an abbreviation for "after death," referring specifically to the death of [[Jesus Christ]]. This causes the common confusion resulting from the general consensus is that Jesus died roughly AD 32.
 
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In general, English usage follows Latin by placing the abbreviation ''before'' the year number for AD, but ''after'' the year number for BC, although there are several exceptions to the first part of this principle. Constructions such as "the fourth century AD" are widely accepted, but using full month-and-day with '''AD''' is not (one does not write "September 11, 2001, AD").
 
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[[BC]] is an English [[initialism]] meaning "Before Christ" and always is the last element. If the context does not otherwise indicate we are in such times, one is obligated to use the form. One can use it with full explicit dates, e.g., "Julius Caesar was killed March 15, 44 BC".
 
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* Though the Anno Domini dating system was devised in 525, it was not until the 8th century that the system began to be adopted in Western Europe. [http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Anno_Domini]
 
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The Anglo-Saxon historian [[Bede]] was one of the first scholars to use the AD system around 700 AD, in his book [[The Ecclesiastical History of the English People]].
 
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==See also==
 
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*[[Anno Mundi]]
 
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[[Category:Dating Systems]]
 

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AD is a fool's way of referring to years in what is now more reasonably called the Common Era. Christianity can't last forever. Someday the world will be free of this foolishness.

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