This right here is a fresco birapheal of Plato hanging out with his best student Aristotle
And you may or may not know that this two two fellow along with Plato's teacher Socrates
who is considered the fathers of Western philosophy
but that's not what this video is about
This is actually just a small little video about different dates or
a better way to think about it different ways to specify dates or dating machinisms
and so if you were to look up Plato's birth you might get either 428 or 427
but we'll go with 428
if you were to look up Plato's birth
you might see it written as 428 BC
or you might see it written as 428 BCE
and the natural question is, well, what's the difference here
they both have BC but this one has an E and it's the same year right now
And the answer is that these are referring to the exact same year
but the in history but the ... here do stand for different things
BC literally stands for Before Christ
so the date is written 428 BC
the implication is that this is 428 years before the birth of Christ
We'll see in a second that that's not exactly right
But that's what the implication is. But if someone writes BCE
they're saying something very different. The B still stands for before.
So the B still stands for Before. But the CE. The C in CE does not stand for Christ anymore. It now stands
for Common. And so the CE part, the CE part is Common Era. Common Era.
Even thogh it's not referring to Christ anymore and that is kind of the intention here
so that it is less religious than the term Before Christ
it is still kind of putting an importance on Christ's birth
because it is saying that the Common Era is the time period after the birth of Christ
which we'll see in a second isn't exactly right
but it's essentially the same exact dating sheme.
One with a -- not directly referring to Christ
one that is directly referring to Christ.
Similarly, this right here is a painting of Christopher Columbus
and if you would look up in history books
you'd know what was his first voyage
and when did he first show up in the New World
fighting an island in the Bahamas you would see it written as
either 1492 or AD 1492
or 1492 CE
And once again these are all referring to the same year
just using different
one of them is a little bit more religious
or more directly refers to Christ
and one is a little less religious.
So AD some people think it refers to After Death
It does not refer to After Death.
Because if you think about it if you have years before the Christ and
if you start numbering years after his death how would you number the years during his life?
So Ad does not stand for After Death.
It stands for Anno -- Anno Domini.
Which literally means -- Anno means year
and Domini means Lord or the Lord or the year of our Lord
one anno domini would be the year of Jesus Christ's birth

Understanding Calendar Notation

Understanding Calendar Notation : Difference between BC, BCE, AD and CE. A little bit about the birth of Jesus as well.