1 BC

The birth of Jesus (pictured above) is widely regarded to have been placed by Dionysus Exiguus, inventor of the Anno Domini dating system, in 1 BC. Modern scholarship, however, regards the birth of Christ to have taken place between 6 and 4 BC.[1]

Millennium: 1st millennium BC
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1 BC in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1 BC
I BC
Ab urbe condita753
Ancient Greek era194th Olympiad, year 4
Assyrian calendar4750
Balinese saka calendarN/A
Bengali calendar−593
Berber calendar950
Buddhist calendar544
Burmese calendar−638
Byzantine calendar5508–5509
Chinese calendar己未年 (Earth Goat)
2697 or 2490
    — to —
庚申年 (Metal Monkey)
2698 or 2491
Coptic calendar−284 – −283
Discordian calendar1166
Ethiopian calendar−8 – −7
Hebrew calendar3760–3761
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat56–57
 - Shaka SamvatN/A
 - Kali Yuga3100–3101
Holocene calendar10000
Iranian calendar622 BP – 621 BP
Islamic calendar641 BH – 640 BH
Javanese calendarN/A
Julian calendar1 BC
I BC
Korean calendar2333
Minguo calendar1912 before ROC
民前1912年
Nanakshahi calendar−1468
Seleucid era311/312 AG
Thai solar calendar542–543
Tibetan calendar阴土羊年
(female Earth-Goat)
126 or −255 or −1027
    — to —
阳金猴年
(male Iron-Monkey)
127 or −254 or −1026

Year 1 BC was a common year starting on Friday or Saturday in the Julian calendar (the sources differ; see leap year error for further information) and a leap year starting on Thursday in the proleptic Julian calendar. It was also a leap year starting on Saturday in the Proleptic Gregorian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Lentulus and Piso (or, less frequently, year 753 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 1 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. The following year is AD 1 in the widely used Julian calendar and the proleptic Gregorian calendar, which both do not have a "year zero".

  1. ^ Meier, John P. (1991). "A Chronology of Jesus' Life". A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus. Vol. v. 1. Anchor Bible Reference Library. pp. 373–433.