Did the people in 9 wish each other Merry Christmas and a Fantastic 10?

Well the BC/AD convention wasn’t developed until around 500 years later, so no, they probably did not.

May be probably worried that their wagons wouldn’t start.
Or their sun dials wouldn’t convert to the next year.

An arrangement of twelve pits and an arc found in Warren Field, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, dated to roughly 10,000 years ago, has been described as a lunar calendar and was dubbed the “world’s oldest known calendar”.

They would all sing “draw me a wee plan” and dance naked and off their collective mesolithic noggins until the dawn of a more refined age.

The fab four and fantastic five came much later.

People in 9CE actually called it the 36th year of the reign of Caesar Augustus, or, the 13th year of Herod Antipas. And no one knew it was Christmas until the Gospels were written.

^^^Well dang.

The Chinese knew everything then.

Which people? The Chinese calendar we are at 4717 I think? Jewish calendar it’s 5780? Something close to that anyway.

Supposedly, the BC AD (BCE and CE respectively) is actually 4 years off from the actual birth of Christ. I’ve heard that anyway.

—When I first read the Q I thought it was about the movie Nine.—

Good question, @JLeslie.
Since I am from Europe, let’s take the Europeans in 9.

@rebbel Which question is a good question? Do you mean when did the Europeans accept the current calendar? That I don’t know. Probably depends what part of Europe. Wasn’t the Julian calendar before the Gregorian? What about the Roman calendar, did it use BC and AD?

@JLeslie “Which people?”

@JLeslie AD was first adopted in 525 by church historians.

Before that, Roman (and by extent the lands that were in the Roman Empire) marked years by time from the founding of Rome (753 BC), the founding of The Republic (510 BC), the year of the consuls, and after Julius Caesar, the year of the emperor.