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It did not start at 0 AD. There was no year zero. Zero is nothing, whereas a year is something, so you cannot have something that is numbered zero. So you have 1 BC followed directly by 1 AD. It is just like at the end of the month there is no day zero between the last day of the month and the first day of the next month.

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