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Did the years start from year 1?

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Yes - there was NO 'year zero' - we went from 1BC to 1AD.

In the western calendar, the years are calculated from a year called "1", although in that year it wasn't known as that. It was calculated many years later by trying to work out when Jesus Christ was born, but errors were made in the calculation, so it is probable He was born about 4BC. Around that time years were named according to a Roman system. The Muslim calendar, and the Chinese Calendar and many others adopt different baselines for naming years.

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