Good afternoon, everyone ! I would like to know why is the Ethiopian calendar 7 to 8 years behind the American (or otherwise known as the gregorian) calendar.
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In both Ethiopia and Europe scholars wanted to define a calendar based on the year of Christ’s birth. Being they were four or five centuries after the fact, they calculated the date using scriptural evidence and historical documents. Ultimately, they arrived at two different calculations, with the Ethiopian reckoning being that Jesus was born about eight years later than they concluded in Europe. In Europe this calendar system was called Anno Domini (AD) but since the 20th century has also been called the Common Era (CE) and is used across most of the world.
As an aside, according to modern scholarship both estimates are wrong, and Jesus was actually born sometime between 6 and 4 BCE.
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