Anno Mundi, abbreviated as AM or A.M., or Year After Creation, is a calendar era based on biblical accounts of the creation of the world and subsequent history. Two such calendar eras of notable use a
A Jewish gravestone using the Year After Creation (Anno Mundi) chronology, found just outside the Rotunda of Thessaloniki
The inscription over the Bevis Marks Synagogue, City of London, gives a year in Anno Mundi (5461) and Julian calendar (1701) notations.
Anno Mundi notation in the Kievan Chronicle (Khlebnikov Codex). The phrase "В лѣто ҂s҃ х к҃s" reads "In the year 6626", which (as noted in the margin) corresponds to the Gregorian calendar's "1118".
Inscription in Ballybough Cemetery, Ireland, indicating Anno Mundi 5618 (AD 1857)
The Julian calendar is a solar calendar of 365 days in every year with an additional leap day every fourth year. The Julian calendar is still used as a religious calendar in parts of the Eastern Ortho
Anno Mundi
…25 as the beginning of the year: 25 March was considered to be the anniversary of Creation itself. It was the first day of the year in the medieval Julian calendar and the nominal vernal equinox (it had been the actual equinox at the time when the Julian calendar was originally designed). Considering that Christ…
The Tusculum portrait of Julius Caesar
Russian icon of the Theophany (the baptism of Jesus by John the Baptist) (6 January), the highest-ranked feast which occurs on the fixed cycle of the Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar