The year of the Lord must coincide with Jesus' death or the year He was born.

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Gregorian Christian calendar had placed the year of birth of Christ around 1 BC. Modern scholars, however, do not agree; they say Christ was born around 4 BC. Christian monk Dionysius Exiguus had fixed the birth of Christ in the year 753 after the founding of Rome. In Roman chronology the era of the founding of the city ‘ab urbe condita’, or AUC) dates from April 22, 753 ¼ and the Julian era date from the reform of the calendar by Julius Caesar in 45 BC. In face of such disagreement, I am wondering whether the ‘year of the birth of Christ has been fixed correctly? Bible says a star had appeared in the east. It says, “Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem, Saying, Where is he that is born King of the Jews? For we have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him", Matthew 2:1-2. May be that Star of Bethlehem was Hailey’s comet. The periods between Comet’s approaches to the earth usually vary from 75 to 79 years because the gravitational forces of other planets change the comet’s orbit slightly. Last, it had appeared in the year 1986, so it will appear next in the year 2061 - 2067. Since Halley’s Comet appears at this interval, thus the year of its sighting around Jesus’ birth ought to be 33-39 BC. Christ died at the age of 33. Therefore, year of the Lord must coincide with His death and not the year He was born. I would like to hear other’s opinion on this as well.