Question

Anno Domini means
A. In the Year of Revolution
B. In the Year of our Lord
C.In the Year of evolution
D.In the Year of Independence.

Answer 1

Hint: Anno Domini is used to mark the years in the Julian or Gregorian calendar. The Gregorian calendar is the most used and accepted calendar in the world today.

Complete answer: Anno Domini means in the Year of Our lord. It marks the birth of Jesus Christ. AD begins from the day after the birth of Jesus Christ. Before Christ or BC is used to denote the years before the birth of Christ. In this chronology of AD, there is no zero. Anno Domini is used in the Gregorian calendar which is the most used calendar around the world. AD is used before the year whereas BC is used after the year example AD 2020and 70 BC. This is also used to maintain the syntactic order. The Christians did not want to use the Roman chronology. They wanted their own Christian chronology. Dionysius Exiguus who was a monk is the inventor AD. He used this format to identify Easters in his Easter table. He belonged to the Scythian monk community. From the eighth or ninth century, the term AD began to appear in Church documents and charters.

Note: The terms BCE and CE are used in replacement of BC and AD. BCE refers to the Common Era and CE means Common Era. These terms are used by people who do not associate themselves with religion.