An acquaintance of mine said that the current year may be off by about 300 years, (so it would be actually 1719) due to some chronological confusion in the middle ages. Is this possible? | AskHistorians Archive Observer

An acquaintance of mine said that the current year may be off by about 300 years, (so it would be actually 1719) due to some chronological confusion in the middle ages. Is this possible?

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silverappleyard

No, it’s not possible. u/sunagainstgold has an excellent explanation for why here:

How confident are we that the year is actually and exactly 2016? Is it possible that at some point in the last 2000 years there were any significant timekeeping mistakes?