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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Neal, post: 26126214, member: 43872&quot;]No, there was no year 0. The system was devised in the year 525 by Dionysius Exiguus, who used the birth of Jesus Christ as the turning point in history.&nbsp; AD stands for Anno Domini, Latin for &quot;In the Year of the Lord.&quot;&nbsp; AD 1 was &quot;In the First Year of the Lord,&quot; that is, the year he&nbsp; supposed Jesus was born (most historians believe he got the year wrong).&nbsp; The previous year was not year 0 but 1 BC, that is, the first year Before Christ.&nbsp; So there was never a year 0.&nbsp; (I&#039;m a retired history teacher.)&nbsp; History does not have to make sense.&nbsp; It just is what it is.&nbsp; Also, perhaps it makes better sense if you realize he did this in AD 525 and the use of a zero did not reach Europe until the 10th century.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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