happy birthday universe!!!

Apparently in the 17th century, Bishop James Ussher calculated that God created the universe on the 23rd of October 4004 BC. In 1650, he published his monumental The Annals of the World, a 1,300-page work written in Latin, a book in which he sought to date every major historical event from Creation - "in the beginning" - to 70 AD. On his death, Oliver Cromwell ordered him buried in Westminster, with this epitaph: "among saints, most scholarly; among scholars, most saintly," a big deal indeed given that the Puritan's were decidedly unenthusiastic about Anglicans and perhaps even more so someone like Ussher as he was a Royalist. By Ussher's calculations, we are now in the year 6016: 4004 plus 2012.