Re: Country Related: Christmas

At 11:08 am +0100 23/12/98, Lars Henrik Mathiesen wrote:
>   Date:         Wed, 23 Dec 1998 07:58:03 +0000
>   From: "Raymond A. Brown" <raybrown@...>
>
>   Of course the strictly correct answer is 1st Jan. since Britain was
>   using the Roman calendar well before Christianity arrived here.
>
>Yes, but for how long did they keep track of the eponymous consuls?
>Once they started naming years for something else, the `new year' may
>well have moved.
I doubt whether consuls, eponymous or otherwise, meant much to the
RomanoBrits.  My understanding is that the dated years by Emperor's reigns,
e.g. the 4th year of Hadrian etc.  Tho I guess officialdom might well have
used consular names as well.

Ray.