The initials 'ad' are an abbreviation of the Latin term, anno domini - "The year of the Lord. It is also becoming more common to use the modern initials 'ce', which simply mean "common era".
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938 years ago was the year 1070 AD
BC ends when AD begins: 1 BC comes before 1 AD. There is no year "0". "BC" stands for "Before Christ", and "AD" stands for "Anno Domini", which in Latin means "in the year of the Lord". Scholars prefer to use "BCE" and "CE", which stand for "Before the Common Era" and "Common Era", respectively, to mean the same thing as "BC" and "AD", but do not imply Christian connotation.
"AD" is short for "Anno Domini", meaning 'in the year of our Lord'. So AD 49 means the year 49.
The period of time from 500 AD to 1500 AD is called the Middle Ages.
1854 AD