When did we start counting years in our current calendar? Did Jesus die and people just said “ok we are now in 33AD and there will be 12 sections every year, each with around 30 days”.

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When did we start counting years in our current calendar? Did Jesus die and people just said “ok we are now in 33AD and there will be 12 sections every year, each with around 30 days”.

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The Julian calendar was proposed in 46 BC by Julius Caesar, and named that because he wasn’t very humble. It took effect on 1 January 45 BC, by his edict. In 1582 Pope Gregory XIII promulgated a revised calendar, the one we use today, also very humbly named the Gregorian Calendar. Jesus and the folks who lived in his era were all using the Julian calendar.