counting of years from creation

[Marina Brodskaya]

Dear SEELANGERS,

A former student has asked me to post this question for him.  Please reply to him directly: kent.penwarden at globalstar.com Your help is greatly appreciated.


It is presumed that in the time of Constatine I, the Roman Empire was
counting years from the founding of the City of Rome.  But sometime after Constatine I and before Peter the
Great, the dating from the beginning of creation was introduced.  Creation was determined to have begun on
September 1, 5509 B.C.  When was the counting of years from creation initiated?  Who determined the date of
creation?  Who initiated (decreed) it?  (In the West, it is known that Dionysius Exiguus introduced the
comparable Christian Era (A.D.) system in approximately 535 A.D.)

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