1487
This week's Saturday Timewatch goes back to 1487 - apparently that is the date on All Saints Parish Church "Est pydeltrenth villa in dorsedie comitatu Nascitur in illa quam rexit Vicariatu 1487" Several sources say that this is a very early use of Arabic numerals in England. I have no idea why that happened in what was then, as now, a relatively sleepy, rural backwater of England. Elsewhere in the country, the use of Roman numerals continued for another century and indeed they are still understood to this day.
Personally I find it difficult to read those numbers so will have to take the word of other people.
1487
This week's Saturday Timewatch goes back to 1487 - apparently that is the date on All Saints Parish Church "Est pydeltrenth villa in dorsedie comitatu Nascitur in illa quam rexit Vicariatu 1487" Several sources say that this is a very early use of Arabic numerals in England. I have no idea why that happened in what was then, as now, a relatively sleepy, rural backwater of England. Elsewhere in the country, the use of Roman numerals continued for another century and indeed they are still understood to this day.
Personally I find it difficult to read those numbers so will have to take the word of other people.