The first year in the calendar is 1 AD/CE not 0 AD/CE because 0 AD/CE doesn't exist and the year directly before 1 AD/CE is 1 BC/BCE.
In calendars, the number zero is never used because when talking about years or months or days in calendars, only natural numbers can be used (like, 1, 2, 3, etc).
by bahhaar-blts
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Maybe you should start over school from 0th grade.
yup, cuz the first year was the 1st year
People say it’s obvious… but most still think a decade starts in the year starting with 0 (2000, 2010, 2020, etc). Our decade started on Jan 1, 2021!
When I was a kid I had similar surprise. Being Greek, I was taught the Greek version of BC / AD, which is translated as “Before Christ” and “After Christ”. So at one point I thought that AD began after 33 AD, and that the numbers were counting after the Crucifixion. Basically that it was “Before Christ” / “Christ Years” / “After Christ”, which would mean that each time one calculated the amount of years through the BC / AD point, they would have to add or subtract 33 years.Â
Yes this is why people said the real millenia was 2001 and not 2000 back in the day.
What is CE and what is the milestone of its counting?
So calender doesn’t have a point of reference