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Letter: Muddled years

Nicolas Walter
Thursday 09 January 1997 00:02 GMT
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Sir: What a muddle about the millennium! (Leading article, 3 January.) Dionysius (not Dionysus) Exiguus lived in the sixth (not seventh) century; and, if Jesus was born in 4BC, the 2000th anniversary falls in 1997 (not 1996), since there is no year between 1BC and AD1.

NICOLAS WALTER

London N1

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