This way of numbering years became more widespread in Europe, with Bede using it in England in 731. Bede also introduced the practice of dating years before 1 backwards without a year zero though the name "BC" for this era did not happen until much later.

Vulgar Era

The first use of the Latin term anno aerae nostrae vulgaris may be in a 1615 book by Johannes Kepler.

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