History Snippet

History, with the uncertainty left in.

Every event here shows when it happened as the span the evidence allows, never a guessed single date; how we know, source by source, including the sources that disagree; and where, with an honest error distance. Nothing is erased: corrections are added as new versions and the old ones stay readable.

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Events

Birth of Jesus of Nazareth
6 BC to 4 BC · Bethlehem of Judea (today Bethlehem, West Bank)
Jesus was born to Mary in Bethlehem of Judea during the reign of Herod the Great, according to the Gospels of Matthew and Luke. No contemporary record gives the date. Historians place the birth between 6 BC and 4 BC, be…