The latitude time

For a new sense of history, it is not enough to see firsthand the living relics of the past. There is also a need for another dimension, which we call time latitudes, a view of simultaneousity, a sense of what happened in the world at the same time. This is a much more complex discovery, can only be reached through winding and surprising roads.

Since ancient times, people still mark events in the place where they live by the king's reign, or by events of other local significance. In 1900 the Chinese were counted as the 26th year of Quang Tu's life, but it was still called the Meiji year 33 in Japan. In India, the ancient Indians marked the calendar with dynasties, but the Buddhists counted from the day the Buddha died and reached Nirvana in 544 BC Indians also used the 'Kali' era , a cycle. small period of the mahayuga cycle consists of 4,320,000 years of celestial bodies and yuga cycles of 432,000 years. Other Indian calendars rely on a certain battle or calendar reform. All calculations are complicated by changes between the five moons and the five suns. Every great civilization of ancient times (Rome, Greece, Egypt, Babylon and Syria) has its own calendar. The calculation of the Romans took the original landmark as the year of city construction was followed by other places. The Islamic calendar, dating from the Hegira era began on July 16, 622, applied only 17 years after the event and still uses the lunar year.

In Christian Europe, the new way of thinking - BC or AD - expresses the early Christian faith in a unique event, the birth of Christ, the intentional event meaning and direction for all history. But this calculation is only developed slowly. Jewish people believe in the unique event of the Creation and the year 1900 of Christianity was the year of Anno Mundi 5661 of Judaism. Centuries have passed after the birth of Christ, before the current milestone system was used.The inventor of the year of AD ( AD = Anno Domini ) is Dionysus Exiguus (500-560), a monk, mathematician and astronomer . He sought to be able to accurately predict the day of Easter, often agreed to occur on the first Sunday after the full moon or after the spring of March 21. This means staying The Western Christian world, Easter may fall any day from March 21 to April 25. Easter always dominates the Year of the Christian because it is a milestone for calculating other mobile holidays. But the method for calculating Easter days for future decades has been troubling and the subject of endless debate. Despite many attempts to compromise, Easter still separates Eastern churches from Western churches. But the Christian calendar of Dionysus Exiguus taking the milestone is the birth year of Jesus will be accepted by most of the world without Christianity, except Islam. The mistake in calculating the schedule of Dionysus Exiguus is just one detail. He calculated that the birth year of Jesus must be 763 from the day of the construction of Rome. But today's Bible researchers based on the Gospels agree that the birth year of Christ must occur before the year of the Hero, meaning that it cannot be after 4 BC

In 525 AD Dionysus Exiguus asked the pope to use the term 'AD'. (CBC, Latin is AD Anno Domini, year of the Lord) to be a timeline. Gradually, through the use of the Dionysus Easter Tables in Christian Europe, the term Anno Dimini from Jesus' birth year replaced all other systems. But it was not until the 17th century that researchers began to use the term 'BC' to mark the years from the birth of Jesus backwards.

But what date is the first day each year? In the past there were many calculations, including Christmas, Mother's Day (Annunciation, March 26), Easter and January 1. And this year's first day is still a lot of confusion.

The new habit of calculating the first day of the year is January 1 is a return to the calculation of the pagans, because it is the beginning of the Roman calendar year and so the Church is always against this calculation. But gradually this calculation was popular and by the end of the 16th century it became commonplace in Europe. Pope Gregorio XIII during the calendar reform in 1592 also followed this pagan style and took January 1 as the first day of the year. This New Style created some trouble for new historians. Countries of the Roman Catholic Church quickly accepted pope Gregorio's rational reform agenda, but the Protestant and Eastern Orthodox Churches did not follow the papal calendar. For almost two centuries, the British would rather bear the inconvenience than live according to the papal calendar, since the seasons have long ceased to correspond to the moon cycles.

Finally, in 1751, Philip Dormer Stanhope, the fourth Earl of Chesterfield (1694-1773), a liberal-minded person, asked Congress to accept the New Calendar (no longer called the 'Gregorio' calendar).