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I want to use this thread to collect examples supporting the idea that the church added 1,000 years to the official chronology. They probably did this by adding a "1" in front of dates during the Gregorian Calendar reform. Before that, people used an "i", which probably meant "Jesus" or "Year".
Every now and then I come across something that doesn't prove this forgery, but could be used as indirect evidence or a hint.
Generally we will need to collect data systematically in order to understand this issue better. Beyond sending Western Rome 1000 years back, there is no conclusive evidence yet for recently added 1,000 years.
An argument against the change from Julian to Gregorian calendar being accompanied by added 1,000 years is that some countries still had the Julian calender until the 20th Century, and the inhabitants would remember added years. There's lots of evidene that the Church and Christianity is made 1,000 years older than it actually is, and Jesus lived around 1,000 years ago. If that's the case, they had to change the calendar and add up to 1,000 years. If the Gregorian calendar was not used for this, maybe the Julian was.
There are two issues I think, that need to be seperated:
A german website gives evidence in support of the 297 years:
Fomenko only mentions shifts of events, not a calendar change. He discovered 3 different shifts:
If no one added 1,000 years to the calendar, another possibility is that the Julian calendar itself was just created out of thin air and imposed on the previous calendars. So the church at one point simply said "Jesus died xxx years ago, and that's why we live in the year xxx", and people believed it. But this could only happen once the memories of the biblical times were already gone. And if the events of the Bible happened 500-1000 years ago, the church could have only introduced the new dating system sometime after - between 1500 and 1600, for example. Then some time later they realized that the Julian calendar had several issues and introduced an updated version - The Gregorian calendar. This probably happened within a few generations.
Clues for added 1,000 years:
1) Today I came across this example in the Plague thread:
The bishop visited Cornwall in around 700 to convince the king to adopt the Roman calendar (probably the Julian calendar, but maybe it's not that easy), and 1052 later it adopts the Gregorian one.
2) Another thing I just came across is the history of the Patricians.
Patrician (ancient Rome) - Wikipedia
Patrician (post-Roman Europe) - Wikipedia
Patricians were the most powerful class in ancient Rome, and the name Patrician survived into the Middle Ages, and still described the ruling class of a city.
The ancient Patricians, it is said, disappeared between 0-100 CE, and appeared again in the 11th or 12th Century in Europe, so exactly 1,000 years later. In the Byzantine Empire, the title was in use 1,000 years longer than in Western Rome.
3) A coin showing the two numbers "1" differently
4) The Shroud of Turin has been carbon dated to 1260 and 1390, suggesting that Jesus lived roughly 1,000 years later than claimed
Fomenko ...
Which overlaps more or less with the Shroud of Turin findings (considering that carbon dating has a significant margin of error).
5) Fomenko dates the Book of Revelation to 1486, roughly 1,000 - 1500 years later than currently accepted:
Every now and then I come across something that doesn't prove this forgery, but could be used as indirect evidence or a hint.
Generally we will need to collect data systematically in order to understand this issue better. Beyond sending Western Rome 1000 years back, there is no conclusive evidence yet for recently added 1,000 years.
An argument against the change from Julian to Gregorian calendar being accompanied by added 1,000 years is that some countries still had the Julian calender until the 20th Century, and the inhabitants would remember added years. There's lots of evidene that the Church and Christianity is made 1,000 years older than it actually is, and Jesus lived around 1,000 years ago. If that's the case, they had to change the calendar and add up to 1,000 years. If the Gregorian calendar was not used for this, maybe the Julian was.
There are two issues I think, that need to be seperated:
- duplicates in history between antiquity and the Middle Ages, to invent the history of antiquity, which sometimes are seperated by 1,000 years due to Western Rome being backdated 1,000 years.
- the possibility that the calendar was manipulated, for example by adding 1,000 years to the timeline
Illig's claims include that at the time of the introduction of the Gregorian calendar in AD 1582, there should have been a discrepancy of thirteen days between the Julian calendar and the real (or tropical) calendar, when the astronomers and mathematicians working for Pope Gregory XIII had found that the civil calendar needed to be adjusted by only ten days. From this, Illig concludes that the AD era had counted roughly three centuries which never existed.
A german website gives evidence in support of the 297 years:
One of the last works in the series "Edition frühes Mittelalter" was written by K. Weissgerber and deals with the land seizure of the Hungarians in the Carpathian Basin. In addition to the archaeological evidence, even the written sources here clearly speak for the thesis. Thus contemporary sources date the land seizure once into the year 600 A.D., another time into the year 898 A.D., which corresponds thus to a difference of 298 years. Conventional research must attribute this to the stupidity of early medieval historians - or it simply ignores the problem. With the phantom period thesis, on the other hand, the discrepancy can be easily explained.
Fomenko only mentions shifts of events, not a calendar change. He discovered 3 different shifts:
More precisely, A. T. Fomenko discovered three important chronological shifts, by about 333 years, 1053 years and 1800 years
If no one added 1,000 years to the calendar, another possibility is that the Julian calendar itself was just created out of thin air and imposed on the previous calendars. So the church at one point simply said "Jesus died xxx years ago, and that's why we live in the year xxx", and people believed it. But this could only happen once the memories of the biblical times were already gone. And if the events of the Bible happened 500-1000 years ago, the church could have only introduced the new dating system sometime after - between 1500 and 1600, for example. Then some time later they realized that the Julian calendar had several issues and introduced an updated version - The Gregorian calendar. This probably happened within a few generations.
Clues for added 1,000 years:
1) Today I came across this example in the Plague thread:
Care must be taken with fixed dates. The Gregorian calendar used today was proposed as a replacement for the Julian calendar in 1582, but adoption occurred at different times and with different levels of success in the Celtic countries. France, including Brittany (Breizh), adopted the reform in the 1580s, Scotland in 1600, England (and thence Cornwall [Kernow], Ireland, and Wales [Cymru]) in 1752, and the Isle of Man (Ellan Vannin) in 1753. This meant there was a ten-day discrepancy between England and Scotland for 100 years, and eleven after that time. Many festivals are still celebrated according to the ‘old calendar’, so that, for example, Samain customs sometimes take place on 1 November, but these may have become Martinmas customs. Calendar customs can also shift between nearby holidays, so that many New Year’s customs have become associated with Christmas, and newer festivals such as Guy Fawkes Day may have incorporated some customs previously associated with Samain/Calan Gaeaf. Many individual dates were celebrated or otherwise marked, notably saints’ days. Martyrologies (a catalogue of martyrs and saints arranged by date) such as Félire Óengusso Céli Dé (The martyrology of Oengus Céile Dé) and issues such as the Easter controversy show an acute awareness of the calendar.
Aldhelm, the Anglo-Saxon bishop of Sherborne, visited Cornwall in about 700 and wrote a letter to Gerontius (Gerent), the king of the region, urging him and his clergy to adopt the Roman calendar.
- Koch, John T., Celtic Culture: A Historical Encyclopedia.Although the Julian and Gregorian calendars have been used throughout the Celtic countries, there is some evidence that at least some of the month words found in Old Irish were applied to periods at variance with the ordinary calendar by nearly a fortnight.
The bishop visited Cornwall in around 700 to convince the king to adopt the Roman calendar (probably the Julian calendar, but maybe it's not that easy), and 1052 later it adopts the Gregorian one.
2) Another thing I just came across is the history of the Patricians.
Patrician (ancient Rome) - Wikipedia
Patrician (post-Roman Europe) - Wikipedia
Patricians were the most powerful class in ancient Rome, and the name Patrician survived into the Middle Ages, and still described the ruling class of a city.
The ancient Patricians, it is said, disappeared between 0-100 CE, and appeared again in the 11th or 12th Century in Europe, so exactly 1,000 years later. In the Byzantine Empire, the title was in use 1,000 years longer than in Western Rome.
3) A coin showing the two numbers "1" differently
Fomenko ...
"claims that the historical Jesus was born in Cape Fiolent, Crimea, on December 25, 1152 A.D. and was crucified on March 20, 1185 A.D., on Joshua's Hill, overlooking the Bosphorus."
(New chronology (Fomenko) - Wikipedia)He associates initially the Star of Bethlehem with the AD 1140 (±20) supernova (now Crab Nebula) and the Crucifixion Eclipse with the total solar eclipse of May 1, AD 1185. He also believes that Crab Nebula supernova could not have been seen in AD 1054, but probably in AD 1153. He doubts the veracity of ancient Chinese astronomical data.
Which overlaps more or less with the Shroud of Turin findings (considering that carbon dating has a significant margin of error).
5) Fomenko dates the Book of Revelation to 1486, roughly 1,000 - 1500 years later than currently accepted:
Historicist interpretations see Revelation as containing a broad view of history while preterist interpretations treat Revelation as mostly referring to the events of the Apostolic Age (1st century), or, at the latest, the fall of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century.