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Anno Mundi

B.C.E. Anno Mundi   Bible Text
       
Day 1 of creation   Division between day and night Genesis 1:3-5
       
Day 2 of creation   The division between waters beneath the expanse and waters above it Genesis1:6-8
       
Day 3 of creation   Dry land; vegetation Genesis 1:9-13
       
Day 4 of creation   Heavenly luminaries become discernible from earth Genesis 1:14-19
       
Day 5 of creation   Fish & and flying creatures Genesis 1:20-23
       
Day 6 of creation   Land animals; Genesis 1:24-31
       
4026 B.C.E.   Creation of Adam (in early autumn) Day 6 of creation Genesis 2:7
3896 B.C.E. 130 AM Birth of Seth Genesis 5:3
3096 B.C.E. 930 AM Death of Adam Genesis 5:5
     
 
       
3026 B.C.E. 1000 AM 1,000 years of man’s existence  
2970 B.C.E. 1056 AM Birth of Noah Genesis 5:28, 29
2468 B.C.E. 1558 AM Birth of Shem Genesis 11:10
2370 B.C.E. 1656 AM Methuselah dies in this year floodwaters fall (in November) Genesis 5:27; Genesis 7:6, 11
2369 B.C.E. 1657 AM Flood subsides; God allows man to eat meat, but sanctifies the blood of animals Genesis 9:4-6
2368 B.C.E. 1658 AM Birth of Arpachshad Genesis 11:10
c. 2239 B.C.E. 1787 AM Founding of Babel; beast comes out of sea Genesis 10:8-12; Revelation 13
     
 
       
2026 B.C.E. 2000 AM    
2018 B.C.E. 2008 AM Birth of Abraham Genesis 11:32; 12:4
1943 B.C.E. 2083 AM Abrahamic covenant made Genesis 12:4, 7
1918 B.C.E. 2108 AM Birth of Isaac; beginning of the "about 450 years” Genesis 21:2, 5; Acts 13:17-20
1913 B.C.E. 2113 AM Isaac weaned (age 5); Ishmael (age 19) taunts Isaac; beginning of 400-year affliction Genesis 21:8; 15:13; Acts 7:6
1858 B.C.E. 2168 AM Birth of Esau and Jacob Genesis 25:26
1737 B.C.E. 2289 AM Joseph made prime minister of Egypt Genesis 41:40, 46
1728 B.C.E. 2298 AM Jacob and family move to Egypt Genesis 47:9
c. 1600 B.C.E. a. 2426 AM EGYPT First World Power Exodus 1:8
1593 B.C.E. 2433 AM Birth of Moses Deuteronomy 34:7
1513 B.C.E. 2513 AM Passover; Israel leaves Egypt; end of 400-year affliction; Exodus 12:12, 40, 41; 24:6-8
    Law covenant made at Sinai Genesis 15:13, 14;
1473 B.C.E. 2553 AM Israel enters Canaan under Joshua; count for Jubilee years begins Tishri (Ethanim) 10 Joshua 5:6; Leviticus 25
1467 B.C.E. 2559 AM End of Joshua’s war operations in Canaan; end of the "about 450 years" of Acts 13:17-20; Joshua 11:23; 14:7, 10-15;
    first sabbath year for Israel begins (in fall); 350-year period of Judges begins Leviticus 25:1-7
1424 B.C.E. 2602 AM First Jubilee year begins Tishri (Ethanim) 10 Leviticus 25:8-12
1117 B.C.E. 2909 AM Saul anointed as king of Israel 1 Samuel 10:24
1077 B.C.E. 2949 AM David becomes king Acts 13:21, 22
1037 B.C.E. 2989 AM Solomon succeeds David as king 1 Kings 2:11, 12
1034 B.C.E. 2992 AM Construction of Solomon’s temple begins in his 4th year (in spring) 1 Kings 6:1
     
 
       
1026 B.C.E. 3000 AM    
997 B.C.E. 3029 AM Rehoboam succeeds Solomon as king; 10 tribes secede 1 Kings 11:42, 43
740 B.C.E. 3286 AM ASSYRIA, Second World Power, subjugates Israel, takes Samaria 2 Kings 17:6, 13, 18
625 B.C.E. 3401 AM Nebuchadnezzar rules as king of BABYLON, Third World Power Jeremiah 25:1
624 B.C.E. 3402 AM 17th Jubilee begins Leviticus 25
617 B.C.E. 3409 AM Nebuchadnezzar takes first Jewish captives to Babylon 2 Kings 24:12-18
607 B.C.E. 3419 AM Nebuchadnezzar takesJerusalem by siege; temple razed, Jerusalem destroyed (5th month); 2 Kings 25:3-7, 8-10; 25, 26
    abandoned (7th month); 70-year desolation begins; Seven Gentile Times begin to count Jeremiah 52:12-14;
539 B.C.E. 3487 AM Babylon falls to Medes and Persians; Medo-Persia becomes Fourth World Power; Daniel 5:30, 31
    Darius rules  
537 B.C.E. 3489 AM Cyrus the Persian (in first year) decrees return of Jews 2 Chronicles 36:22, 23
516 B.C.E. 3510 AM Zerubbabel completes second temple Ezra 6:14, 15
455 B.C.E. 3571 AM Jerusalem’s walls built by Nehemiah; 70 weeks of begin fulfillment Nehemiah 1:1; 2:1, 11;
      Nehemiah 6:15; Daniel . 9:24
332 B.C.E. 3694 AM GREECE, Fifth World Power, rules Judea Daniel 8:21
63 B.C.E. 3963 AM ROME, Sixth World Power, rules Judea John 19:15; Revelation 17:10
       
26 B.C.E. 4000 AM    
       
C.E. Anno Mundi    
2 C.E. 4024 AM Birth of John the Baptist and Jesus Luke 1:60; 2:7
29 C.E. 4054 AM Jesus baptized, anointed; end of 69th "week" of Daniel 9:24 Luke 3:1, 2, 23
33 C.E. 4058 AM Nisan 14, Jesus sets up Lord’s Supper; impaled; middle of 70th “week” (half a week represents 3½ years) of Daniel . 9:24 Luke 22:20; 23:33
    Nisan 16, Jesus resurrected Matt. 28:1-10
    Sivan 6, Pentecost; outpouring of holy spirit; Christian congregation founded; Acts 2:1-4, 14
    Peter uses first key  
36 C.E. 4061 AM Peter uses 2nd key; The 70 weeks of years closed with the conversion of the Roman centurion Cornelius Acts 10:34-48
    (a week represents 7 years) the prophecy pointed to Jesus’ appearance as the Messiah 490 years from the year 455 B.C.E.  Daniel 9:18-27 .
c. 49 C.E. 4074 AM Council of apostles and older men decree at Jerusalem against blood and things strangled Acts 15
70 C.E. 4095 AM Jerusalem and temple destroyed by the Romans Daniel . 9:27; Luke 19:42-44
73 C.E. 4098 AM Last Jewish fortress, Masada, falls  
c. 100 C.E. 4125 AM John, the last of the apostles, dies 2 Thessalonians 2:7
131 C.E. 4156 AM Emperor Hadrian rebuilds Jerusalem, making it a Roman colony called Ælia Capitolina  
325 C.E. 4350 AM Roman Emperor Constantine, Pontifex Maximus, convokes first general council of bishops at Nicaea  
330 C.E. 4355 AM Emperor Constantine moved his capital from Rome to Byzantium, which he renamed Constantinople.  
378 C.E. 4403 AM Damasus, bishop of Rome, takes over title of Pontifex Maximus  
395 C.E. 4420 AM The Roman Empire split into Eastern and Western parts.  
410 C.E. 4425 AM Rome falls to Alaric, king of the Visigoths (a Germanic tribe that had converted to the Arian brand of Christianity).  
    Germanic tribes (Christian) conquered Spain and much of the territory of Rome in North Africa.  
386 C.E. 4411 AM Augustine is converted to Roman Catholicism  
800 C.E. 4825 AM Pope Leo III crowns King Charles (Charlemagne)  
     
 
       
975 C.E. 5000 AM    
1203 C.E. 5228 AM The city of Constantinople survived frequent attacks from Persians, Arabs, Bulgars, and Russians but fell to Crusaders from the  
    West.  
1453 C.E. 5478 AM Constantinople comes under the power of the Muslim Ottoman ruler Mehmed II and soon became capital of the Ottoman, or  
    Turkish, Empire.  
1530 C.E. 5555 AM Protestant's enter into the League of Schmalkald  
1763 C.E. 5788 AM GREAT BRITAIN emerges as Seventh World Power  
1783 C.E 5808 AM The United States of America formed, Britain agrees that the thirteen colonies become free and independent states.  
1806 C.E. 5831 AM End of Holy Roman Empire  
1898 C.E 5923 AM Spanish-American war in which the government and people of the United States recognized the advantage which they derived  
    from the goodwill of Great Britain in the hour of their necessity, and the two nations drew together as no other two nations had perhaps ever been drawn together before.  
1901 C.E. 5926 AM During the reign of Queen Victoria (1837-1901) areas of India expanded, as well as Burma and large portions of Africa came under  
    British control. At the time of this queen’s death the British Empire possessed one out of every four square miles of land area in the world, giving rise to the saying that ‘the sun never sets on the British Empire.’ It has been said that one person out of every five in the world was a British subject. Because of her sea power it was said that ‘Britannia rules the waves.’  
1914 -18 C.E. 5939 AM World War I  
1920 C.E 5945 AM Adoption and opening of Wilson's assembly of the Leauge of Nations  
1922 C.E. 5947 AM On July 24, 1922, the Council of the League of Nations gave Britain mandatory power over Palestine.  
1929 C.E. 5954 AM On February 11, 1929, in Italy, the Lateran Treaty was signed by Mussolini and Cardinal Gasparri, making Vatican City a  
    sovereign state.  
1939 C.E. 5964 AM On the 1st September 1939, Hitler invaded Poland, two days later Britain and France declared World War II.  
1944 C.E.   The tide of World War II changed in northern Europe, on that day, 156,000 British, American, and other Allied troops invaded  
    the continent of Europe. This combined force was under the supreme command of a U.S. general Eisenhower and the operational command of British field marshal Montgomery.  
1945 C.E. 5970 AM 50 nations adopt the charter of the United Nations a similar body to the Leauge of Nations which was organized after World War I.  
1948 C.E. 5973 AM May 14, 1948, the establishment of the Modern State of Israel  
1956 C.E. 5981 AM After the union of the military commands of Egypt, Jordan and Syria, Israel invaded Egypt and conquered the whole Sinai  
    Peninsula and the Gaza strip. This resulted in Anglo-French armed intervention, with the arrival of a United Nations force in the area, Israel had withdrawn by January 1957.  
1967 C.E. 5992 AM The army of the state of Israel gain control of the West Bank, including the old walled city of Jerusalem.  
     
 
       
1975 C.E. 6000 AM    
2008 C.E. 6033 AM    

CHRONOLOGICAL INDEX

Of The YEARS and TIMES

from ADAM unto CHRIST

FROM THE COLLECTIONS OF DIVERS AUTHORS

From a BIBLE 200 years old

The fun of the years of the first age.
FROM Adam unto Noah's flood, are 656 years.
For when Adam was 130 years old, he begat Seth.
Seth being 105 years, begat Enos.
Enos being 90 years begat Cainan.
Cainan being 70 years, begat Mahaleel.
Mahaleel being 65 years, begat Jared.
Jared, at the age of 162, begat Enoch .
Enoch being 65 years, begat Methufelah .
Methufelah, at the age of 187.begat Lamech
Lamech, being 182 years. begat Noah.
Noah, at the coming of the flood, was 6oo years old;
as appeareth in the 7th of Genefis.
The whole fum of the years are 1656.
FROM the faid flood of Noah, unto Abraham's departing from Chaldee, were 363 years and ten days.
For the faid flood continued one whole year and ten days.
Shem, (which was Noah's fon) begat Arphaxad two years after that.
Arphaxad begat Salah when he was 35 years old.
Salah, being 30 years old, begat Eber.
Eber, at the age of 34 begat Peleg.
Peleg. being 30 years. begat Reu.
Reu, being 32 years, begat Serug.
Serug, being 30 years, begat Nahor.
Nahor, being 29 years, begat Terah.
Terah, being 70 years. begat Abram.
And Abraham departed from Chaldee when he was 70 years old.
Thefe faid years accounted, are 363 years and ten days.
FROM Abraham's departing from Ur in Chaldee unto the departing of the children of Ifrael, are 435 years, gathered as followeth :
Abraham was in Haran five years, and departed in the 75th year.
He begat Ifaac when he was 100 years old and in the 25th year of his departing.
Ifaac begat Jacob, when he was 60 years old. Jacob lived 147 years .
From the death of Jacob to the birth of Mofes 118 years .
When the Ifraelites departed from Egypt Mofes was 80 years old .
Which being added together make 435 years.
FROM the going of the Ifraelites from Egypt , unto the Firft building of the temple, are 505 years, after this chronology and account.
Mofes remained in the defert or wildernefs 40 years.
Jofhua and Othniel ruled 40 years
Ehud, arid Shamgar, 80 years.
The Ifraelites oppreffed by the Canaanites 20 Years.
Deborah, and Barak, 40 years .
Gideon, 40 years.
Abimelech,. 3 years.
Tola, 23 years.
Jair 22 years.
Then they were without a captain, until the 18th year of Jephthah.
Jephthah , 6 years.
Ibzan, 7 years.
Elon, 10 years.
Abdon, 8 years.
Samfon, 20 years.
Heli, judge and prieft, 44 years.
Samuel and Saul reigned 40 years.
David was king 40 years.
Solomon, in the 4th year of his reign began the building of the temple.
Thefe added together make 505 years.
From the firft building of the temple unto the captivity of Babylon, are 419 years and an half .
Solomon reigned yet 36 years
Rehoboam, 17 years
Abija, 3 years.
Afa, 41 years
Jehofhaphat, 25 years.
Jehoram8 years.
Ahaziah1 year
Athaliah the queen, 7 years.
Joafh 40 years.
amaziah, 29 years.
Uzziah, 52 years.
Jehoahaz, 16 years.
Ahaz, 16 years.
Hezekiah, 29 years.
Manaffes, 55 years.
Amon, 2 years.
Jofiah, 31 years
Jehoaz, 3 months.
Eliakim, 11years.
Jehoiachin, Jechonias, 3 months.
And herebegineth the captivity of Babylon
The fum of thefe years are 419, and fix months.
JERUSALEM was re-edified, and built again after the captivity of Babylon 143 years.
The captivity continued 70 years.
The children of Ifrael were delivered and reftored to their freedom in the firft year of Cyrus. The temple was begun to be built in the fecond year of the faid Cyrus, and finifhed in the 46th year, which was the 6th year of Darius. After that Darius had reigned 20 years, Nehemiah was reftored to liberty, and went to build the city, which was finifhed in the 32d year of the faid Darius.
All the years from the building of the temple again, are 26 years.
The whole fum of years amount to 143.
FROM the re edifying of the city, unto the coming of Christ, are 483 years, after this chronology.
It is mentioned in the 9th of Daniel iel, that Jerufalem fhould be built up again, and that from that time, unto the coming of Chrift, are 69 weeks, and every week is reckoned for feven years. So 69 weeks amount to 483 years; for, from the 32d year of Darius, unto the 42d year of Auguftus, in which year our Saviour Chrift was born, are juft and complete fo many years, whereupon we reckon, that from Adam unto Chrift, are 4004 years, fix months and ten days.
Then the whole fum and number of years, from the beginning of the world unto the year of our Lord God 1802, will be juft 5806 years, fix months, and the faid odd ten days.

COIN News Yearbook 1995 - Published By Token Publishing Ltd. Honiton Devon .EX14 8PE

Hebrew
The coins of Israel use the Jewish calendar dating from the beginning of the world (Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden) in 3760 BC. Thus the year 1993 is rendered as 5753. The five millennia are assumed in dates, so that only the last three digits are expressed. 735 therefore equates with AD 1975. Dates are written in Hebrew letters, reading from right to left The first two characters signify 400 and 300 respectively, totaling 700. The third letter denotes the decades (lamedh = 30) and the fourth letter, following the separation mark (") represents the final digit (heh = 5). The Jewish year runs from September or October in the Christian calendar.

Dates from the creation of the world

This system was also used in Russia under Ivan IV. The dating system Anno Mundi (AM ) was established by the Council of Constantinople in AD 680 which determined that the birth of Christ had occured in 5508 AM. Ivan's coins expressed the date as 7055 (1447) .

The Jewish Encyclopedia states: “The present usual method among Jews of recording the date of an event is to state the number of years that have elapsed since the creation of the world.” This system, known among Jews as the Era of the Creation, came into common use in about the ninth century C.E. Thus, dates in the Jewish calendar are usually preceded by the designation A.M. It stands for anno mundi, which is an abbreviated form of ab creatione mundi, meaning “from the creation of the world.”

Encyclopaedia Judaica (1971) states: “In various rabbinical computations the ‘Era of the Creation’ began in the autumn of one of the years between 3762 and 3758 B.C.E. From the 12th century C.E., however, it became accepted that the ‘Era of the Creation’ began in 3761 B.C.E. (to be exact, on Oct. 7 of that year). This computation is founded on synchronisms of chronological elements expressed in the Bible and calculations found in early post-biblical Jewish literature.”

This system is essentially based on rabbinical interpretations of the Bible record. Of the work originally called Seder `Olam (Order of the World) attributed to second-century C.E. Talmudic scholar Yose ben Halafta.

The Book of Jewish Knowledge states: “He counted from the Era of Creation and, accordingly, ascribed fancied dates to various Jewish events that were presumed to have taken place from Adam, the first man, to Alexander the Great.”

Yose ben Halafta calculations and other rabbinical interpretations have been found to be inaccurate, the main reasons are;

The Bible clearly shows that creation occured over six different days, and that Adam was one of the final parts of the progression of events, it is important to rember that the 'Era of the Creation' only represents the time elapsed since Adam .
The calendar agrees with the Bible until the time of the Deluge. At that point its compiler made the common error of counting the flood as coming after Noah was 600 years old, whereas it came in the second month of Noah’s 600th year. (Genesis 7:11)
Jewish tradition assumes that Terah was 70 years old when Abram was born, but the correct age of Terah at the birth of Abraham, is shown at Genesis 11:32–12:4, Abraham was 75 years at Terah’s death (205 years old), hence, Abraham must have been born when Terah was 130 years old, rather than 70.
We see at Exodus 12:41; Galatains 3:17 that 430 years elapsed between the making of the covenant and the making of the law covenant, after the Exodus, therefore we cannot conclude otherwise than that from the birth of Abraham to the Exodus was 505 years.
The Jewish calendar allows but 410 years, for the "first" temple, or Solomon’s temple, whereas it stood 427 years.
Historical dates show that Babylon was overthrown in 539 B.C.E. and that destruction of the second temple occured 70 C.E. Hence, the period of the second temple would have to be 605 years rather than 420 years. By assigning only 420 years to Daniel’s prophecy of “seventy weeks,” (Daniel 9:24), Jewish chronology falls short by 185 years.

Daniel’s prophecy (Daniel 9:25, 26) actually foretells the time when the Messiah would appear.

      Bible Text 
From Adam’s creation to the birth of Seth 130 years   Genesis 5: 3-5;
To the birth of Enosh 105 years   Genesis 5: 6-11;
To the birth of Kenan 90 years   Genesis 5: 3-14;
To the birth of Mahalalel 70 years   Genesis 5: 3-14;
To the birth of Jared 65 years   Genesis 5: 15-20.
To the birth of Enoch 162 years   Genesis 5: 18, 21-24;
To the birth of Methuselah 65 years   Genesis 5: 21-29;
To the birth of Lamech 187 years   Genesis 5:25-31;
To the birth of Noah 182 years   Genesis 5: 28-31;
To the Flood 600 years   Genesis 6: 13-18;
  Total 1,656 years  
       
From the deluge to Arpachshad’s birth 2 years   Genesis 10:22, 24; 11: 10-13;
To the birth of Shelah 35 years   Genesis 10:22-12:15;
To the birth of Eber 30 years   Genesis 10:25-11:26;
To the birth of Peleg 34 years   Genesis 11:16-19;
To the birth of Reu 30 years   Genesis 11: 18-21;
To the birth of Serug 32 years   Genesis 11: 20-23;
To the birth of Nahor 30 years   Genesis 11:26;
To the birth of Terah 29 years   Genesis 11:26-12:4;
To the death of Terah, when Abraham was 75 years old, and the validating of the Abrahamic covenant  205 years   Genesis 11:32-12:4;
   Total 427 years  
       
To the Exodus from Egypt   430 years Exodus 12: 40-41;
       
To the entry of Israel into Canaan 40 years   Numbers 21: 1-35;
To the close of the period of the Judges and the beginning of Saul’s reign 356 years    
To the beginning of David’s reign 40 years   2 Samuel 2: 1-4;
To the beginning of Solomon’s reign 40 years   1 Kings 1: 11-40;
To the division of the kingdom 40 years   1 Kings 11:30-12:24;
  Total 516 years  
       
To the desolation of Judah   390 years  Jeremiah 25: 11;
       
To the return of the Jews from exile   70 years 2 Chronicles 36:20-23;
       
To the rebuilding of Jerusalem’s walls (beginning of the 70 weeks 455 B.C.E.)   82 years Nehemiah 2: 1-8;.
       
To the baptism of Jesus 29 C.E. (69th week of Daniel 9:25; )   483 years Mark 1: 9-11;
Jesus resurrected (33 C.E. Nisan 16)   4 years  
       
To the present 2008   1975 years  
       
The number of years since Adam Total 6,033 years