The Anglo-Saxon theologian, scholar, and chronologist St. Bede the Venerable popularized the method of dating events from the time of Christ’s birth, known as anno Domini (ad), which is Latin for “in the year of our Lord.” This method came into general use partly through Bede’s Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum (“Ecclesiastical History of the English People”; completed in 731/732), a history of the conversion to Christianity of the Anglo-Saxon tribes.
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