| What Homer, Euclid, Herodotus, Hippocrates, Antonio | | | | Anno Domini, or âThe year of our |
| Vivaldi, Johann Gutenberg, and Jesus Christ have in | | | | Lordâ; and to when all other years preceding it |
| common is that they are among the many historical | | | | form a countdown. But the problem with this |
| figures documented with uncertain dates of birth. And | | | | Christ-based system was that it had been colliding into |
| it is rather ironic that Jesus Christ, probably the biggest | | | | vital basic elements of other, more precise, systems |
| name in the list and to whom historians have been | | | | and historical details. What later occurred because of |
| basing their timeline for the last two thousand years, | | | | this was a consolidation of systems to determine the |
| continues to have an obscure birth date. | | | | year of Jesusâ birth somewhere between 7 |
| Early Church experts ventured to establish | | | | and 4 B.C. In regards to the crucifixion, however, |
| Jesusâ birth as the center of human history, | | | | historians point to either 33 A.D. |
| from when the years begin counting progressively as | | | | |