Jesus was known as "Jesus, The Christ" to be most accurate.
You do not have to choose to believe it, but it is still fact that the nomenclature for marking years in the western world for 2 thousand years was Anno Dommini (A.D.) "Year of God" that began with the birth of Jesus of Nazareth - the Christ. and marking years before that was called BC Before Christ.
That is HISTORICAL FACT - or are you in favor of the communist ideologies of erasing and revising of history?
Maybe you only have problems with titles? Do you also have problems with the title: Mister, Sir, President, etc?
"The Christ" is Jesus' Title. No?
"The Christ" is Jesus' Title. No?
Are you trying to start a religious argument here? "Christ" (a Greek translation of the Hebrew "Moshiach," or messiah, literally meaning "anointed") is Jesus's "title" only according to Christians; Jews, as you surely know, don't regard him as the messiah. Now that you know what BCE means, why don't you stop trying to pick a fight about it (in a thread that's not even about religion in the first place)?
That particular calendar only became widespread in Europe around the year 800.
Only if you accept that he was the Messiah. I, like many people out there, don't. Sorry. I have no problem with the Gregorian calendar, but I'm not going to throw away my religious beliefs either. If you don't like it, that's just too bad.