Does anyone know what the earliest fixed, definite date in history is?
You know, the earliest date we can positively work back to know it was definitely on a particular day, in a particular month in a particular year?
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can't you just work back continuously?
in the same way you could count forwards infinitely?
there's a way of working it out as well
like if you have a date, there's some maths you can do that will tell you what day it fell on
http://5dspace-time.org/Calendar/Algorithm.html
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yes.
2,000,000 BC
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Well before the common era, or AD
They all had their own calenders. Like the Romans didn't go "oh it's 44BC".
So who knows. There's probably been measurements of time in tiny tribal communes all over the planet since humans first existed.
ad/bc isn't used globally though
in thailand it is currently the year 2555
futuristic
Someone taking the piss out of your birthday again?
I'm sure there's *something* out there that's older than you.
You were obviously around when Plato was in his pomp, I'm sure something he wrote is dated in the margins
I think
There have been examples of legendary battles or wars that have been marked by an eclipse (or some other ominous, unusual solar occurrence) and astronomers are able to pinpoint the exact date based on cycles of said event in the past.
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Since the exact dates of eclipses can be calculated, the Battle of the Eclipse is the earliest historical event of which the date is known with such precision
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Halys
An actual answer! Amazing.
Good questioning.
Good answering.
that's it? 2500 years ago?
historians are rubbish
Not as rubbish as your maths.
That's much closer to 2600 years ago (2597.5)
woah! fuck you!
don't question my conversational maths! it's different from actual maths! oooooh you've struck a nerve there
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Bit of discussion about it,
with a candidate date 600 years earlier than the Battle of Halys, also based on a documented eclipse (but nowt of note, other than the eclipse itself, seems to have happened) here:
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=425709
To be honest this all comes from my feeling that AD/BC doesn't really work well for history.
I also think renaming to CE and BCE seems utterly stupid since 'Common Era' would surely include a lot of BCE stuff too? Just renaming a calendar based on one religion doesn't make it politically correct... blah.
Anyway, I was thinking how scientists use the Kelvin scale rather than C because it's annoying to be using negative values all over the place so I was wondering if historians could have their own dating that was similar to the Kelvin scale but then their year 0 would need to be a fixed date you could go back to and fit everything else around.
I think renaming to CE and BCE is the least stupid choice out of a whole heap of impractical choices, though
metric time incoming
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I'm not really interested in this, sorry.
but did you know that under the Mayan calendar, my birthday is 1 Pop?
well, now you do.
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