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Sometimes you see Years written like

2000 AD

550 BC

What do they mean?

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AD is AFTER Jesus was born

BC is BEFORE Jesus was born

AD comes from Latin Anno Domini meaning 'In the year of Our Lord'

BC comes from Before Christ

Years Before and After

So 550 BC means 550 years before Jesus was born

And 2000 AD almost means 2000 years after Jesus was born ...

... except AD started at 1, not 0

Some historians put the actual birth of Jesus 4 years earlier (4 BC), but it WAS thought to be exactly at 1 AD.

A monk named Dionysius Exiguus calculated his own present year to be 525 AD And if you continue counting years from then you get our current year number.

So, AD is now just a 'Year Number' (every New Year we add 1), and it only roughly equals how many years ago that Jesus Christ was born.

'2000 AD' or 'AD 2000'

Should 'AD' be written before or after the number?

It WAS common to write it before (the standard was to put 'AD' before the year and 'BC' after), but now many people put 'AD' after the year number. So you decide!

What is CE and BCE?

They are recent terms that mean the same as AD and BC:

CE means 'Common Era' and is the same as AD

BCE means 'Before Common Era' and is the same as BC

Example: 500 BCE is 500 BC

Other Calendars

There are other ways of saying what year it is!

Example, Muslims have dates that relate to Mohammad's emigration from Mecca to Medina called the Hijra, and so they use AH dates.

The Year 2020 AD is about 1441 AH, but the years start on different days and AH years are shorter!

Question: 'What is the meaning of BC and AD (B.C. and A.D.)?'
Answer: It is commonly thought that B.C. stands for “before Christ” and A.D. stands for “after death.” This is only half correct. How could the year 1 B.C. have been “before Christ” and A.D. 1 been “after death”? B.C. does stand for “before Christ.” A.D. actually stands for the Latin phrase anno domini, which means “in the year of our Lord.” The B.C./A.D. dating system is not taught in the Bible. It actually was not fully implemented and accepted until several centuries after Jesus’ death.
It is interesting to note that the purpose of the B.C./A.D. dating system was to make the birth of Jesus Christ the dividing point of world history. However, when the B.C./A.D. system was being calculated, they actually made a mistake in pinpointing the year of Jesus’ birth. Scholars later discovered that Jesus was actually born around 6—4 B.C., not A.D. 1. That is not the crucial issue. The birth, life, ministry, death, and resurrection of Christ are the “turning points” in world history. It is fitting, therefore, that Jesus Christ is the separation of “old” and “new.” B.C. was “before Christ,” and since His birth, we have been living “in the year of our Lord.” Viewing our era as “the year of our Lord” is appropriate. Philippians 2:10–11 says, “That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.”
In recent times, there has been a push to replace the B.C. and A.D. labels with B.C.E and C.E., meaning “before common era” and “common era,” respectively. The change is simply one of semantics—that is, AD 100 is the same as 100 CE; all that changes is the label. The advocates of the switch from BC/AD to BCE/CE say that the newer designations are better in that they are devoid of religious connotation and thus prevent offending other cultures and religions who may not see Jesus as “Lord.” The irony, of course, is that what distinguishes B.C.E from C.E. is still the life and times of Jesus Christ.

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