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What year is it? (ani.social)
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[–] [email protected] 119 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

Took me a second

They wouldn't call the year 59 bc in 59 bc

[–] [email protected] 37 points 5 months ago (1 children)

They would probably not speak Modern English either.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Okay, honest question: what did they call it then, if anything?

Because it's not like they planned on counting down to the future "messiah's" birthday.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 5 months ago (3 children)

You have to look at non-Christian calendars.

It was 2275 in Korea.

It was 265 of the 33rd dynasty in Egypt.

It was 2 of the 180th Olympiad in Greece.

More here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/59_BC

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

I like the Chinese version best

辛酉年 (Metal Rooster) 2639 or 2432

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Damn, so Korea went back in time? Or what are they on now? Did they hit 40K yet? Do they count in dog years? Do they inflate their numbers so it sounds cooler? Have the halfed it, when they split the country in half? I demand answers Korea!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

North Korea is at 113; they use their own calendar.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

I now realise that I know absolutely nothing of Korean history

[–] [email protected] -3 points 5 months ago

None of them matter. They’re just funny jibber-jabber.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 5 months ago (2 children)

The Romans named their years after who was elected Consul that year. There were two Consuls, so you'd say "in the consulship of Jones and Smith". 59BC was Julius Caesar and some other guy. The other guy was so unimportant that Romans joked by calling it the consulship of "Julius and Caesar".

[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Humour like that makes ancient people so much more relatable.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago

Some humour transcends lifetimes, we were carving dicks into walls before the first century.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago

"Three men, a greek, a roman and a celt each get an island.

The greek writes a book about flora and fauna of his island.

The roman, realising that the island does not need to be conquered, builds a house, a road to the shore and a statue to himself.

The celt starts a fight."

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

In more official settings they would also use the year "ab Urbe condita", meaning "since the City's founding" (city being Rome).

59BC should be around 694 aUc if my numbers are right.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Depends on where in the world, but most dating systems were reginal, that is what year of what monarch/pharaoh/emperor's reign.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

Depends on who's calendar... haha

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Same.. took me a moment. Then I realized in 59 B.C. it was like year 700 to them at that time (not literally 700.. just throwing a random number).