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[โ€“] lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I think that's the idea of AD: We used to count in years of the current king, now Jesus is our lord and king

[โ€“] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I mean, PJ didn't mention it, but AUC was an innovation on top of the emperor-consul system, developed by major Roman scholar Verro and some other guy. So, just moving from Romulus and Remus to Jesus was incremental.