Marc Lehmann said:
But it was before Christians adopted Julian calendar. And when did they? Sometime between 700 and 1000 AD, depending on the location. Before, they mostly used the alexandrine era, although a lot of different calendars were in use (for example, people thought that the year 800 would be the end of the world, as that year coincided with the year 6000 after the world creation, another popular calendar). It is also not clear wether the years ~600-~900 do exist or were just inserted by some calulcation error during the calendar switch.
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