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The anno Diocletiani era was not the only one used by early Christians. Most Roman Christians designated their years by naming the two Consul s who held office that year. The AUC year was rarely used. Some Eastern Christians had used an era that began at the birth of Jesus in the Second and Third Centuries . It was soon replaced by eras that began at Creation, called anno Mundi eras, which became the dominant method of numbering years in the East until modern times. Annianus Of Alexandria , a monk who flourished at the beginning of the fifth century, placed the Epoch of his world era on 25 March 5492 BC by counting back eleven 532-year paschal cycles from anno Diocletiani 77, itself four 19-year lunar cycles after anno Diocletiani 1. Regarded as a civil rather than a religious era, it began on the first day of the Alexandrian year, 29 August 5493 BC . This Alexandrian era was the preferred era used by Byzantine Christians such as Maximus The Confessor until the Byzantine era, having an epoch of September 1 , 5509 BC , became dominant in the Tenth Century . Both eras used a version of Dating Creation based on the Septuagint . Christians in Spain used the Aera Hispanica from the fifth century well into the Middle Ages . SEE ALSO EXTERNAL LINKS |