approximately when did we start counting the year?
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We do not know. Some of the first ever writing we have found, about 5000 years old, is a calendar listing the royal succession of the Sumerian empire. The list seams pretty accurate for about half a millenium back and several events mentioned can be cross referanced to other sources. The list does continue further back but the dates seams to be wrong. There are however events mentioned in this list as well which can be cross referanced, including the biblical flood.
It would have been nice to say we have consistant calender records all the way to the modern era but sadly this is not the case. For about two thousand years we have been pretty accurate though.
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