"YL" instead of "AD"?

[NKVD]

Old-timey dates are often prefixed with "Year of our Lord". Like "Year of our Lord 1790". Is it possible that, at least in the Anglosphere, the convention for dates, rather than BC and AD, could be BC and YL? Or something similar to that?

 

[Sabot Cat]

Vulgar Era, Christian Era, and Common Era were all used in place of Anno Domini, to distinguish from the regal year. The first was the most common and earliest used; so you could have BC and VE, or CE.

 

[ramones1986]

Well, there's aleady BCE (Before Common Era) and CE (Common Era) as alternatives

 

[Gurroruo]

Old-timey dates are often prefixed with "Year of our Lord". Like "Year of our Lord 1790". Is it possible that, at least in the Anglosphere, the convention for dates, rather than BC and AD, could be BC and YL? Or something similar to that?

Latin was a widespread language associated with Christianity. English became a widespread language later on. So early on AD was used because it was Latin. And later on when English was huge AD was already ingrained.

Maybe when England breaks away they change to YL

 

[Seleucus]

Maybe with the Protestant Reformation, this could happen as a way of further distinguishing them from the Catholic Church in Rome? Perhaps the trigger could be the Gregorian calendar reforms - this would act as a means of denoting that dates were in Julian calendar notation rather than Gregorian.