[MineralMan]

"You mean the Year 1, B.C.? That year?

1AD is the year following 1BC."

What do you suppose it was called at the time. Seems like the Jewish calendar goes back a lot further than that. Perhaps you should say that _Christians_ use those dates. Lots of folks don't.

[headsonpikes]

Okay. Lots of folks don't. At the time, reign dates were the usual method of accounting for years. It was centuries before reckoning from the birth of Christ became the norm in Christian Europe.

BCE - 'Before Common Era' is the politically correct way of expressing it, now.