[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Archaeology, epigraphy and coins](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy) › [Book of Indian Eras, with Tables for Calculating Indian Dates](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.cunningham-1883) › c30.1 # Book of Indian Eras, with Tables for Calculating Indian Dates c30.1 Book of Indian Eras, with Tables for Calculating Indian Dates c30.1 - **Language:** English ### [c30.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.cunningham-1883.c30.1) The era which has been adopted by all Christian nations is reckoned from the supposed date of the birth of Christ, and has, therefore, been called \*Anno Domini\*, or the "year of our Lord." The era was first brought into use by Dionysius Exiguus, a Roman Abbot, who fixed the birth of Christ in the 45th year of the Julian era, or A.U.C. 753 of the Roman Calendar. "Previous to this, the Christian Churches had for about a century dated from the Diocletian era, or year of Martyrs." The true date of the nativity is now admitted to be four years earlier, or in 4 B.C. of the present Christian reckoning. But the use of the Christian era did not become general until A.D. 730, in the time of Pope Gregory II. - [Previous: c29.13](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.cunningham-1883.c29.13) - [Next: c30.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.cunningham-1883.c30.2) - [Up: c30](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.cunningham-1883.c30) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.cunningham-1883.c30.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.cunningham-1883.c30.1) · Pramāṇa