Regnal year | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-14

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Regnal year


00:00:42 1 Reckoning in various cultures
00:02:46 2 England
00:02:55 3 Ancient Egypt
00:03:04 4 Asian era names
00:06:12 4.1 Chinese era names
00:06:55 4.2 Japanese
00:07:54 4.3 Korean
00:08:42 5 Notable king lists
00:09:06 6 See also



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A regnal year is a year of the reign of a sovereign, from the Latin regnum meaning kingdom, rule.
The oldest dating systems were in regnal years, and considered the date as an ordinal, not a cardinal number. For example, a monarch could have a first year of rule, a second year of rule, a third year of rule, and so on, but not a zeroth year of rule. 
Applying this ancient epoch system to modern calculations of time, which include zero, is what led to the debate over when the third millennium began.
Regnal years are "finite era names", contrary to "infinite era names" such as Christian era, Jimmu era, Juche era, and so on.