APPENDIX 179.
I.  PARALLEL DATINGS OF THE TIMES OF OUR LORD.
II.  DATES OF "THE BEGETTING" AND THE NATIVITY, ETC.
III.  "THE COURSE OF ABIA".

A.M.= Anno Mundi ; i.e. in the year of the world.   B.C.= Before Christ.   Reckoned as from 4004 A.M.
A.C.= Anno Christi ; i.e. in the year of Christ.   Reckoned from the Nativity, in 4000 A.M. and 749-750 A.U.C.
A.U.C.= Anno Urbis conditoe ; i.e. in the year in which the City (Rome) was founded.

 
A.M.
  
B.C.-A.D.
  
A.C.
  
A.U.C
          
 
3960
  
44
      
9
          
 
1
  
43
      
710
          
 
2
  
42
      
11
          
 
3
  
41
      
12
          
 
4
  
40
      
13
          
 
5
  
39
      
14
Herod declared king by the Romans, according to Josephus
(Ant. xvii. 8 &1), who states that his death took place thirty-seven years later,
and as he always reckoned his years from Nisan to Nisan 
(including initial and terminal fractions of Nisan as complete years), 
the death of Herod would be in 749-750 A.U.C., or 4-3 B.C.
 
6
  
38
      
15
          
 
7
  
37
      
16
          
 
8
  
36
      
17
          
 
9
  
35
      
18
          
 
3970
  
34
      
19
          
 
1
  
33
      
720
          
 
2
  
32
      
21
  
Years of the Reign of Augustus (Octavius).
      
 
3
Battle of Actium
31
      
722
  
1st
year of Octavius.
    
 
4
  
30
Decree of Senate of Rome
    
23
  
2
      
 
5
  
29
      
24
  
3
      
 
6
  
28
      
25
  
4
      
 
7
  
27
      
26
  
5
Augustus (Octavia) Imperator.
    
 
8
  
26
      
27
  
6
      
 
9
  
25
      
28
  
7
      
 
3980
  
24
      
29
  
8
      
 
1
  
23
      
730
  
9
      
 
2
  
22
      
31
  
10
      
 
3
  
21
      
32
  
11
      
 
4
  
20
      
33
  
12
      
 
5
  
19
      
34
  
13
      
 
6
  
18
      
35
  
14
      
 
7
  
17
      
36
  
15
      
 
8
  
16
      
37
  
16
      
 
9
  
15
      
38
  
17
      
 
3990
  
14
      
39
  
18
      
 
1
  
13
      
740
  
19
      
 
2
  
12
      
41
  
20
      
 
3
  
11
      
42
  
21
      
 
4
  
10
      
43
  
22
      
 
5
  
9
      
44
  
23
      
 
6
  
8
      
45
  
24
      
 
7
  
7
      
46
  
25
      
 
8
  
6
      
47
  
26
      
 
9
  
5
  
Years of the Age of the Lord
  
48
  
27
      
(See Ap.50)
4000
The Nativity
4
}Quirinus'
0
  
749
Herod d.c. end of Jan. 3 B.C.
28
Our Lord b. 15th Tisri =29th Sept. 4 B.C.
    
 
1
{1st taxing or Census--
3
}First
1
  
750
  
29
      
 
2
Luke 2:2}
2
}Governorship.
2
  
51
  
30
      
 
3
  
1
  
3
  
52
  
31
      
 
4004
  
0 A.D.
  
4
  
753
  
32
A.D. reckoning begins, owing to the mistake of Dionysus
Exiguus, in arranging the Calendar of the
Christian Era in A.D. 532
 
5
  
1
  
5
  
54
  
33
      
 
6
  
2
  
6
  
55
  
34
      
 
7
  
3
  
7
  
56
  
35
      
 
8
  
4
  
8
  
57
  
36
      
 
9
  
5
  
9
  
58
  
37
      
 
4010
  
6
  
10
  
58
  
38
      
 
1
  
7
  
11
  
760
  
39
      
 
2
  
8
    Christ in
12
the Temple.
61
  
40
      
 
3
  
9
  
13
  
62
  
41
      
 
4
2nd Census (?)
10
  
14
  
63
  
42
      
 
5
  
11
  
15
  
64
  
43
  
Years of the Reign of Tiberius
  
 
6
  
12
  
16
  
65
  
44
1st year of Tiberius'
1
joint reign with Augustus.
 
7
  
13
  
17
  
66
  
45
  
2
  
 
8
  
14
  
18
  
67
19th August
46
Augustus Dies.
3
  
 
9
  
15
  
19
  
68
      
4
  
 
4020
  
16
  
20
  
69
      
5
  
 
1
  
17
  
21
  
770
      
6
  
 
2
  
18
  
22
  
71
      
7
  
 
3
  
19
  
23
  
72
      
8
  
 
4
  
20
  
24
  
73
      
9
  
 
5
  
21
  
25
  
74
      
10
  
 
6
  
22
  
26
  
75
      
11
  
 
7
  
23
  
27
  
76
      
12
  
 
8
3rd Census (?)
24
  
28
  
77
      
13
3rd Census this year (?).
 
9
  
25
  
29
  
78
      
14
  
 
4030
The Ministry
26
of our
30
Lord
779
begins 
(Luke 3:23)
in the 
15th
year of Tiberius.
 
1
  
27
  
31
  
780
      
16
  
 
2
  
28
  
32
  
81
      
17
  
ANNO MUNDI
4033
The Crucifixion
29 A.D.
The Lord
33
Years of Age
782
A.U.C. Roman Reckoning.
  
The
18th
year of Tiberius.

1. ZUMPT fixes Quirinus' (Cyrenius') First Govenorship as 4 B.C. to 1 B.C.  Justin Martyr thrice says that our Lord was born under Quirinus (Apol.1.XXXIV, p.37; XLVI, p. 46; Dial. LXXVIII, p. 195. Clark's ed.).

2. According to some, Augustus died August 19, A.D. 14.  Therefore if Tiberius' co-regnancy was for two years before Augustus' death his first year was 765 A.U.C. = 12 A.D.  His fifteenth year consequently was A.U.C. 779 = 26 A.D. = 4030 A.M. and A.C. 30.  for our Lord was thirty years of age when He begun His Ministry (Luke 3:23).  Clement of Alexandria gives the years of Augustus' reign as being 43-46, according to different reckonings in his day.

3. According to Clement of Alexandria (c. A.D. 190-220) "Our Lord was born in the twenty-eighth year when first the census was taken every fourteen years, then the next would fall in A.D. 10, and the succeeding one would have been due A.D.24.