Anno Scribere (in the Year of Writing) is a calendar era where year 0 is placed at 3201 BC, near the invention of Cuneiform, the earliest known script. It was created to be used as an alternative to the Julian and Gregorian calendars' eras of Before Christ / Anno Domini, also known as the Common Era. The calendar's secondary aim as an alternative to the Holocene calendar—which places 10000 BC as its first year—is to delay the prevalence of 5 digit years, which are cumbersome to pronounce.
Non-presice years before 1 AD that end with zero should always end with a zero or zeroes in AS (e.g. c. 2500 AS / 700 BC). Years before 0 AS are to use the denomination Ante Recordum "before the record" (AR) (e.g. 441 AR).
Gregorian Year (BC/AD) | Gregorian Year (AS) | Event |
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3201 BC | 0 AS | 1st millennium begins |
3200 BC | 0 AS | Cuneiform develops as the oldest known script |
3150 BC | 50 AS | Unification of Lower and Upper Egypt |
2250 BC | 950 AS | Beginning of the Meghalayan age, the current and latest of the three stages in the Holocene era |
2201 BC | 1000 AS | 2nd millennium begins |
2070 BC | 1130 AS | The beginning of the Xia dynasty according to traditional Chinese histriography |
1894 BC | 1307 AS | Babylon is founded |
1201 BC | 2000 AS | 3rd Millennium begins |
1200–1150 BC | 2000–2050 AS | Late Bronze Age collapse |
1194–1184 BC | 2007–2017 AS | Traditional dates of the Trojan War |
776 BC | 2425 AS | The first Olympic Games are held in Olympia, Greece. |
753 BC | 2448 AS | Rome is founded |
332 BC | 2869 AS | Egypt is conquered by Macedonia |
201 BC | 3000 AS | 4th millennium begins |
44 BC | 3157 AS | Assassination of Julius Caeser |
AD 1 | 3201 AS | Beginning of the Common Era and Anno Domini, from the estimate by Dionysius of the Incarnation of Jesus |
AD 450–800 | 3650–4000 AS | Settlement of Britain by Anglo-Saxons |
AD 476 | 3676 AS | Fall of the Western Roman Empire, signalling the beginning of the Middle Ages |
AD 793–1066 | 3993–4266 AS | Viking Age |
AD 800 | 4000 AS | 5th millennium begins |
AD 1453 | 4653 AS | Fall of Constantinople |
AD 1492 | 4692 AS | End of Reconquista / Beginning of the Colonial Era in America |
AD 1526 | 4726 AS | Start of the Mughal Empire |
AD 1776 | 4976 AS | The United States of America declares independence from Great Britain |
AD 1800 | 5000 AS | 6th millenium begins |
AD 1803–1815 | 5003–5015 AS | Napoleonic Wars |
AD 1914–1918 | 5114–5118 AS | World War I |
AD 1939–1945 | 5139–5145 AS | World War II |
AD 1969 | 5169 AS | Neil Armstrong becomes the first man to walk on the Moon |
AD 1989 | 5189 AS | The World Wide Web is invented |
AD 2001 | 5201 AS | September 11th attacks |
AD 2020 | 5220 AS | The COVID-19 pandemic spread around the world, leading to socioeconomic disruption. |
AD 6800 | 10000 AS |