Okay, honest question: what did they call it then, if anything?
Because it’s not like they planned on counting down to the future “messiah’s” birthday.
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GreatTitEnthusiast@mander.xyz 5 months ago
Took me a second
RGB3x3@lemmy.world 5 months ago
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 5 months ago
You have to look at non-Christian calendars.
It was 2275 in Korea.
It was 265 of the 33rd dynasty in Egypt.
It was 2 of the 180th Olympiad in Greece.
More here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/59_BC
RecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
I like the Chinese version best
辛酉年 (Metal Rooster) 2639 or 2432
Holzkohlen@feddit.de 5 months ago
Damn, so Korea went back in time? Or what are they on now? Did they hit 40K yet? Do they count in dog years? Do they inflate their numbers so it sounds cooler? Have the halfed it, when they split the country in half? I demand answers Korea!
EddoWagt@feddit.nl 5 months ago
I now realise that I know absolutely nothing of Korean history
SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 5 months ago
North Korea is at 113; they use their own calendar.
maculata@aussie.zone 5 months ago
None of them matter. They’re just funny jibber-jabber.
charonn0@startrek.website 5 months ago
The Romans named their years after who was elected Consul that year. There were two Consuls, so you’d say “in the consulship of Jones and Smith”. 59BC was Julius Caesar and some other guy. The other guy was so unimportant that Romans joked by calling it the consulship of “Julius and Caesar”.
positiveWHAT@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Humour like that makes ancient people so much more relatable.
TwanHE@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Some humour transcends lifetimes, we were carving dicks into walls before the first century.
Justas@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
“Three men, a greek, a roman and a celt each get an island.
The greek writes a book about flora and fauna of his island.
The roman, realising that the island does not need to be conquered, builds a house, a road to the shore and a statue to himself.
The celt starts a fight.”
Rinox@feddit.it 5 months ago
In more official settings they would also use the year “ab Urbe condita”, meaning “since the City’s founding” (city being Rome).
59BC should be around 698 aUc if my numbers are right.
Semjaza@lemmynsfw.com 5 months ago
Depends on where in the world, but most dating systems with reginal, that is what year of what monarch/pharaoh/emperor’s reign.
StaySquared@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Depends on who’s calendar… haha
StaySquared@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Same… took me a moment. Then I realized in 59 B.C. it was like year 700 to them at that time (not literally 700… just throwing a random number).
Unbeelievable@beehaw.org 5 months ago
They would probably not speak Modern English either.
The_Che_Banana@beehaw.org 5 months ago
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