Template:Year in other calendars

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Why is the "Ab Urbe Condita" date adding an AD date to 753 to get the year? Rome was founded in 753 BC, not AD.

Microformat

The HTML mark up produced by this template includes an hCalendar microformat, which makes the event/ date details parsable by computers, either acting automatically to catalogue article across Wikipedia, or via a browser tool operated by a person, to (for example) add the subject to a calendar or diary application. For more information about the use of microformats on Wikipedia, please see the microformat project.

hCalendar uses HTML classes including:

Please do not rename or remove these classes; nor collapse nested elements which use them.