Anno Domini Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ==Usage== Traditionally, English follows Latin usage by placing the "AD" abbreviation before the year number, though it is also found after the year.<ref>''Chicago Manual of Style'' 2010, pp. 476β7; Goldstein 2007, p. 6.</ref> In contrast, "BC" is always placed after the year number (for example: AD 70, but 70 BC), which preserves syntactic order. The abbreviation "AD" is also widely used after the number of a century or [[millennium]], as in "fourth century AD" or "second millennium AD" (although conservative usage formerly rejected such expressions).<ref>''Chicago Manual of Style'', 1993, p. 304.</ref> Since "BC" is the English abbreviation for ''Before Christ'', it is sometimes incorrectly concluded that AD means ''After Death'' (i.e., after the death of Jesus), which would mean that the approximately 33 years commonly associated with the [[life of Jesus]] would be included in neither the BC nor the AD time scales.{{sfn |Ryan |2000 |p = 15}} Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page