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A realization that made me think

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Hi.

The calendar that was in use before ours counted from the founding of the city of Rome. It was not until several centuries after Christ--when the Christian religion had become the faith of the Roman Empire--that the dating system we use was instituted. But that required figuring back hundreds of years in order to place the year 1 at the year of Christ's birth (there is no year 0). The estimate was off by a few years, but this is the calendar we now use.
 
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