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Roman Numeral Date Converter

Convert any date to Roman numerals or parse a Roman-numeral date back to a calendar date. Multiple layouts, separators, tattoo-stack style, and reverse parser.

Year range supported is 1 to 3999, the standard letter-only Roman range (MMMCMXCIX).

Part order

Separator

Try a date

Primary result

VIII . VI . MMXXVI

Monday, June 8, 2026

Day

VIII

8

Month

VI

6 (June)

Year

MMXXVI

2026

Every common layout

Copy whichever layout matches the style you need.

  • Primary

    The layout you set above

    VIII . VI . MMXXVI

  • Day . Month . Year

    International convention

    VIII . VI . MMXXVI

  • Month . Day . Year

    US convention

    VI . VIII . MMXXVI

  • Year . Month . Day

    ISO-style order

    MMXXVI . VI . VIII

  • Slash separated

    Compact look popular on jewelry

    VIII / VI / MMXXVI

  • Dash separated

    Hyphens between parts

    VIII-VI-MMXXVI

  • Stacked (tattoo style)

    Each part on its own line

    VIII VI MMXXVI

  • No separators

    No separators between parts

    VIIIVIMMXXVI

  • Long month name

    Use the full month name and Roman day and year

    VIII June MMXXVI

  • Short month name

    Use the 3-letter month and Roman day and year

    VIII Jun MMXXVI

  • ISO padded

    Strict ISO order with leading zeros padded as Roman

    MMXXVI-VI-VIII

  • Year only

    Useful for copyright lines and signs

    MMXXVI

How Roman-numeral dates work

Three parts, any order

A Roman-numeral date is just the day, the month (1 to 12), and the year written as Roman numerals and joined by a separator. English-language certificates and movie copyright lines typically use Month-Day-Year, while the rest of the world uses Day-Month-Year. ISO order (Year-Month-Day) is occasionally used on plaques and monuments.

Subtractive notation

The canonical form uses IV instead of IIII and IX instead of VIIII. This tool always writes subtractive form (the form used by every dictionary, stylebook, and Hollywood copyright line) so the result matches what a stonemason or tattoo artist would expect.

Year range

Standard Roman numerals support years 1 to 3999 (MMMCMXCIX). The next year, 4000, would need a vinculum (an overline) or parentheses, neither of which copy-paste cleanly into a tattoo or invitation, so this tool caps at 3999.

Month numbers, not names

When you read MCMXCIX . X . V at the bottom of a film, the middle part X is the month number (10 = October), not a long Roman month name. Only month numbers 1 to 12 are valid; any parsed value outside that range is rejected by the reverse parser.

How to use

  1. Pick a date with the native date picker, or click a preset like Today, New Year 2025, or Apollo 11.
  2. Choose the part order (Day-Month-Year, Month-Day-Year, or Year-Month-Day) and a separator style (period, slash, dash, plain space, or middle dot). The Primary result card updates instantly.
  3. Browse the Every common layout grid below the primary result. Each card shows a different popular layout with its own Copy button. The Stacked layout is the tattoo-friendly form with one part per line.
  4. Switch to Roman to date and paste any Roman-numeral date you found on a building, in a film credit, or on a stationery sample. The parser ignores separator characters and case.
  5. Read the candidate dates table. If the three parts could be combined in more than one way, every valid arrangement is listed so you can pick the order used by the source.
  6. Click Copy ISO on any candidate row to copy a YYYY-MM-DD string ready to paste into a spreadsheet, calendar event, or form field.

About this tool

Roman Numeral Date Converter turns any calendar date into the Roman-numeral string you would carve on a cornerstone, etch on a wedding band, print at the bottom of a copyright line, or take to a tattoo artist. Pick a date with the native date picker, choose the part order (Day-Month-Year for the international convention, Month-Day-Year for the US convention, or Year-Month-Day for ISO order) and a separator (period spaced, period, slash, dash, plain space, or a centered middle dot), and the tool builds the primary string plus every other common layout in parallel: a dot-separated DMY string, the US MDY equivalent, an ISO-style YMD string, a slash form for jewelry, a dash form for short labels, a stacked tattoo-style block with each part on its own line, a no-separator compressed form, a long named-month form (V April MMXXV), a short named-month form (V Apr MMXXV), an ISO-padded YMD-with-hyphens form, and a year-only string for movie copyright lines. Every part is shown alongside its Arabic equivalent in the day/month/year cards so the math is transparent. The reverse mode goes the other way: paste any Roman-numeral date in any reasonable format (spaces, dots, slashes, dashes, middle dots, even the word 'of' or stray Arabic digits act as separators) and the parser tokenizes the three parts, decodes each token using strict canonical subtractive notation, and reports every valid year/month/day arrangement consistent with the three values. When the three parts could be combined more than one way (a common situation when day, month, and year all happen to be small), the parser surfaces every valid arrangement in a side-by-side table so you can pick the order used by the source. Year range is 1 to 3999 (MMMCMXCIX), the standard letter-only Roman maximum, which covers every modern date including historical dates back to the Year of the Four Emperors. Useful for designers laying out invitations, brides and grooms picking wedding-date stationery, tattoo artists and their clients double-checking the math before the needle goes in, copywriters formatting a film copyright line, students decoding a Latin inscription on a building, and anyone who has typed 'date in roman numerals', 'today in roman numerals', 'roman numeral wedding date', 'what does mmxxv mean', or 'roman numeral date tattoo' into a search bar. All conversion runs locally in your browser; the dates you enter here never leave your device.

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