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As for primary sources only, so far I have only identified the year 776 BC. The anchor event is the first (recorded) Olympiad, whereas the exactness of the counting is guaranteed by several sources recording the following Olympiads and using them for chronology, according to this guy-->[3].
What is Meant by a Verifiable Date By a verifiable date, I mean one where we can show absolutely the passage in time by days to the present day. For example, if the ascension of Harold occurred on January 16, 1066, and today is August 21, 2014, then we might think that the ascension of Harold took place 346461 days ago, or 948 years, 7 months ...
The first decade of 21st century is 2000s. I think that statement is where the problem lies. Strictly speaking it isn't true. Under the Gregorian calendar, the 21st Century started on January 1, 2001. The date is fixed by the fact that there was no year zero. So every century within that calendar started on January 1, XX01.
The first recorded, truly written, dated calendar is the West Semitic Sumerian Calendar tradition starting from 3100 BCE. Month names are agricultural and pastoralist ones, they are a reflection of the society that used the calendar.
To illustrate the problem, consider the date 9/11/2001. Now, everyone will probably recognise this as the date of the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon on 11 September 2001. However, without that context, the date 9/11/2001 would be read as 9 November 2001 in the UK and other parts of the Commonwealth.
Maybe the early US military wanted to confuse the British enemies so they are never sure if that date they are reading in a confidential US message is in DDMM or MMDD. – Orsinus Commented May 18, 2016 at 22:06
Prior to that date the Pasha of Tripoli had broken the treaty of 1897 and captured his first American Merchant ship the Catherine. After that date the United States continued to pay tribute to Tripoli. Even after May of 1801 the consulate in Tripoli remained open for business and the American officials remained in Tripoli.
The use of Anno Domini ("in the year of our Lord") was first used in narrative history by Bede (although it had been used very slightly in some annals before that). It was invented, more or less, by Dionysus Exiguus (circa 470 – 544). Before Bede's use of it, there was no use of a year number in everyday use in western Europe.
Prior to these, the first ever international call was apparently made in 1881 (New Brunswick, Canada - Maine, USA). With President Rutherford B. Hayes installing the White House's first telephone in 1877 and British Prime Minister William Gladstone doing likewise at 10 Downing Street in around 1884 , at least two world leaders saw the potential ...
If you just want to write a date on or after 15 October 1582 in Latin, using the same wording as in ancient Rome, all well and good. But Gregorian dates are seldom used before that calendar was first instituted on 15 October 1582, and before about AD 9, it's impossible to convert exactly between modern or medieval calendars and the calendar as ...