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CALENDAR

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Table X.—Principal Days of the Hebrew Calendar.
Tisri  1,New Year, Feast of Trumpets.
 ”  3,[1]Fast of Guedaliah.
 ”10,Fast of Expiation.
 ”15,Feast of Tabernacles.
 ”21,Last Day of the Festival.
 ”22,Feast of the 8th Day.
 ”23,Rejoicing of the Law.
Kislev25,Dedication of the Temple.
Tebet10,Fast, Siege of Jerusalem.
Adar13,[2]Fast of Esther,In embolismic
 ”14,Purim,years. Veadar.
Nisan15,Passover.
Sivan  6,Pentecost.
Tamuz 17,[1] Fast, Taking of Jerusalem.
Ab  9,[1]Fast, Destruction of the Temple.

Table XI.—Principal Days of the Mahommedan Calendar.

Muharram 1,New Year.
  ”10,Ashura.
Rabia I.11,Birth of Mahomet.
Jornada I.20,Taking of Constantinople.
Rajab15,Day of Victory.
 ”20,Exaltation of Mahomet.
Shaaban15,Borak’s Night.
Shawall 1,2,3,Kutshuk Bairam.
Dulheggia10,Qurban Bairam.

Table XII.—Epochs, Eras, and Periods.

Name.Christian Date of
Commencement.
Grecian Mundane era1 Sep. 5598 B.C.
Civil era of Constantinople1 Sep. 5508   ”   
Alexandrian era29 Aug. 5502   ”   
Ecclesiastical era of Antioch1 Sep. 5492   ”   
Julian Period1 Jan. 4713   ”   
Mundane eraOct. 4008   ”   
Jewish Mundane eraOct. 3761   ”   
Era of Abraham1 Oct. 2015   ”   
Era of the Olympiads1 July 776   ”   
Roman era24 April 753   ”   
Era of Nabonassar26 Feb. 747   ”   
Metonic Cycle15 July 432   ”   
Grecian or Syro-Macedonian era1 Sep. 312   ”   
Tyrian era19 Oct. 125   ”   
Name.Christian Date of
Commencement.
Sidonian eraOct. 110 B.C.
Caesarean era of Antioch1 Sep. 48   ”   
Julian year1 Jan. 45   ”   
Spanish era1 Jan. 38   ”   
Actian era1 Jan. 30   ”   
Augustan era14 Feb. 27   ”   
Vulgar Christian era1 Jan. 1 A.D.
Destruction of Jerusalem1 Sep. 69   ”   
Era of Maccabees24 Nov. 166   ”   
Era of Diocletian17 Sep. 284   ”   
Era of Ascension12 Nov. 295   ”   
Era of the Armenians7 July 552   ”   
Mahommedan era of the Hegira 16 July 622   ”   
Persian era of Yezdegird 16 June 632   ”   

For the Revolutionary Calendar see French Revolution ad fin.

The principal works on the calendar are the following:—Clavius, Romani Calendarii a Gregorio XIII. P.M. restituti Explicatio (Rome, 1603); L’Art de vérifier les dates; Lalande, Astronomie, tome ii.; Traité de la sphère et du calendrier, par M. Revard (Paris, 1816); Delambre, Traité de l’astronomie théorique et pratique, tome iii.; Histoire de l’astronomie moderne; Methodus technica brevis, perfacilis, ac perpetua construendi Calendarium Ecclesiasticum, Stylo tam novo quam vetere, pro cunctis Christianis Europae populis, &c., auctore Paulo Tittel (Göttingen, 1816); Formole analitiche pel

  1. 1 2 3 If Saturday, substitute Sunday immediately following.
  2. ↑ If Saturday, substitute Thursday immediately preceding.
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