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Paul J. Gans (gans@scholar.chem.nyu.edu) wrote:

: My copy of Bede is at home, but the Venerable Bede introduced
: the notion of dating events from the birth of Christ.  Before
: that western Europeans dated events by King-years.

I wasn't aware that Bede *introduced* it, but he was certainly a strong 
proponent for the use of the Christian dating system.  (Was he in fact 
the first historian to use said system?)

-Sam-
