section_path: Late Antiquity and Middle Ages/Christian era/Dionysian "Common Era"
section_name: Dionysian "Common Era"
paragraph_text: Dionysian "Common Era"
  
  The era based on the Incarnation of Christ was introduced by Dionysius Exiguus in 525 and is in continued use with various reforms and derivations. The distinction between the Incarnation occurring with the conception or the Nativity of Jesus was not drawn until the late ninth century.: 881 The first day of the numbered year varied from place to place and depended on the calendar in use: when, in 1600, Scotland adopted 1 January as the first day of the year, this was already the case in much of continental Europe. England adopted this practice in 1752.: 7