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Anno Domini (Latin : "In the year of (our) Lord"), shortened as AD or A.D., is used to refer to the years after the birth of Jesus. AD is also a shortening for Christian Era. ~ A.D. stands for Anno Domini, which is Latin for “year of our Lord,” and it means the number of years since the birth of Jesus Christ. That was a little more than 2000 years ago, so the date 500 A.D. Dionysius Exiguus The system for working out the years was invented byDionysius Exiguus in about AD 525. He fixed the point Anno Domini, which is used to number the years of both the Gregorian calendar and the Julian calendar. He used it to identify the several Easters in his Easter table...When Was Jesus Born? Although millions of people celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ on Dec. 25, most scholars agree that he wasn't born on that day, or even in the year 1 A.D.....
The proper name Jesus /'d?i?z?s/ used in the English language originates from the Latin form of the Greek name ?ησο?ς (Iesous), a rendition of the Hebrew Yeshua (????), also having the variants Joshua or Jeshua. In a religious context the namerefers to Jesus, the central figure of Christianity.