41st Yr of Augustus (nov 1, 43 BC – sep 29, 2 BC)

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Tertullian (Against the Jews VIII:11:75) placed it [birth of Jesus] in the 41st year of the reign of Augustus [which began from the second triumvirate of October 43 BCE]

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Test. Ad Judaeos, Chapter 8.

Tertullian states, “Let us see, moreover, how in the forty-first year of the empire of Augustus, when he has been reigning for xx and viii [28] years after the death of Cleopatra, the Christ is born. (And the same Augustus survived, after Christ is born, xv [15] years; and the remaining times of years to the day of the birth of Christ will bring us to the xl first year [41st], which is the xx and viiith [28th] of Augustus after the death of Cleopatra.)”

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Against Heresies (Book III, Chapter 21) by Irenaeus of Lyons

...for our Lord was born about the forty-first year of the reign of Augustus;...


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Herod the Great and Jesus Chronological, Historical and Archaeological Evidence
Gérard GERTOUX

In 231, Origen dated it in the 41st year of Augustus' reign 15 years before his death
(Homilies on Luke 3:1).

In 325, Eusebius fixed it in the 42nd year of Augustus' reign and 28 years after Cleopatra's
death in 30 BCE (Ecclesiastical History I:5:2).

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