Do people call it 2,000 A.D. everywhere
in the world?
Calendars
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If
you look at letters, newspapers, magazines, the television, you will find
that we refer to being in the year 2,000 A.D. In this country, we date
events according to how many years they occurred either after or before the
birth of Christ. So the person who is writing this document is composing it
2,000 years after the birth of Christ.
There are, and have been, other calendars,
which use different systems or reference points to indicate what year we
are in. Here are some of them.
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In the old Roman calendar it is the year
2753
In the Khmer Rouge calendar, it is the year
25
In the Muslim calendar it is the year 1420
In the French Revolutionary calendar it is
the year 208
In the Jewish calendar it is the year 5760
In the Maya Great Cycle it is the year 5119
In the Greek lunar calendar it is the year
2763
What is a calendar?
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