Examples of anno Domini in the following topics:
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Dates and Calendars
- The terms anno Domini (AD) and before Christ (BC) are used to label or number years in the Julian and Gregorian calendars.
- The term anno Domini is Medieval Latin, which means in the year of the Lord, but is often translated as in the year of our Lord.
- It is occasionally set out more fully as anno Domini nostri Iesu (or Jesu Christi ("in the year of Our Lord Jesus Christ").
- A calendar era that is often used as an alternative naming of the anno Domini is Common Era or Current Era, abbreviated CE.
- Each numbered year is designated either "H" for Hijra or "AH" for the Latin Anno Hegirae ("in the year of the Hijra").
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Administration of the Empire
- The 1232 document marked the first time that the German dukes were called domini terræ, owners of their lands, a remarkable change in terminology as well.
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The Investiture Controversy
- In 1059 a church council in Rome declared, with In Nomine Domini, that leaders of the nobility would have no part in the selection of popes, and created the College of Cardinals as a body of electors made up entirely of church officials.