Encyclopedia - Calendar: Encyclopedia - Calendar
A calendar is a system for naming periods of time, typically days. These names are known as calendar dates. The dates may be based on the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Calendar: Encyclopedia Ii - Calendar - Other Calendar Types
Calendar - Complete and incomplete calendars. Calendars may be either complete or incomplete. Complete calendars provide a way of namin...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Calendar: Encyclopedia Ii - Calendar - Calendar Systems
Calendars in use on Earth are lunar, solar, lunisolar or arbitrary. A lunar calendar is synchronized to the motion of the Moon (moon phas...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Wall Calendar: Encyclopedia - Wall Calendar
A wall calendar is a calendar intended for placement on a wall. Wall calendars can be visually interesting, feature pin-up girls, compani...   » Read the article

Article - Buddhist Calendar
The Buddhist calendar is used on mainland southeast Asia in the countries of Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and Myanmar (formerly Burma) in se...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Celtic Calendar: Encyclopedia - Celtic Calendar
The term Celtic calendar is used to refer to a variety of calendars used by Celtic-speaking peoples at different times in history. Celtic...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - World Calendar: Encyclopedia - World Calendar
The World calendar often called the Worldsday Calendar is a proposed calendar as follows: There is no change in which years are leap year...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hindu Calendar: Encyclopedia - Hindu Calendar
The Hindu calendar is of two types: the solar calendar or the saura māna the lunisolar calendar or the chāndra māna Both are describ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Darian Calendar: Encyclopedia - Darian Calendar
The Darian Calendar is a system of time-keeping designed to serve the needs of any possible future human settlers on the planet Mars. It ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hebrew Calendar: Encyclopedia - Hebrew Calendar
The Hebrew calendar (Hebrew: הלוח העברי) or Jewish calendar is the annual calendar used in Judaism. It determines the dates of t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Attic Calendar: Encyclopedia - Attic Calendar
The Attic calendar is the calendar that was in use in ancient Attica, the ancestral territory of the Athenian polis. This article focuses...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lunar Calendar: Encyclopedia - Lunar Calendar
A lunar calendar is a calendar whose date indicates the moon phase. This is normally done by having a month which corresponds to a lunati...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Calendar Of Saints: Encyclopedia - Calendar Of Saints
The calendar of saints is a traditional Christian method of organising a liturgical year on the level of days by associating each day wit...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Calendar Round: Encyclopedia - Calendar Round
In the Mesoamerican calendars, Calendar Round dates are composed by interlacing the dates of a 260-day period (Tzolkin in the Maya Calend...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Coptic Calendar: Encyclopedia - Coptic Calendar
The Coptic calendar, also called the Alexandrian Calendar, is used by the Coptic Orthodox Church. It is based on the Ancient Egyptian cal...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Maya Calendar: Encyclopedia - Maya Calendar
The Maya calendar is actually a system of distinct calendars and almanacs used by the Maya civilization of pre-Columbian Mesoamerica. The...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chinese Calendar: Encyclopedia - Chinese Calendar
The Chinese calendar is a lunisolar calendar incorporating elements of a lunar calendar with those of a solar calendar. In China today, t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bangla Calendar: Encyclopedia - Bangla Calendar
The Bangla calendar also known as Bangabda in the Bengali language, is the traditional calendar used in Bangladesh and Bangla (Bengali)-s...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Malayalam Calendar: Encyclopedia - Malayalam Calendar
The Malayalam calendar is a sidereal solar calendar used in the South Indian state of Kerala. It has twelve months: Chingam. "Onam", the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Buddhist Calendar: Encyclopedia - Buddhist Calendar
The Buddhist calendar is used on mainland southeast Asia in the countries of Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and Myanmar (formerly Burma) in se...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aztec Calendar: Encyclopedia - Aztec Calendar
The Aztec calendar was the calendar of the Aztec people of Pre-Columbian Mexico. It is one of the Mesoamerican calendars, sharing the bas...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Calendar Girl: Encyclopedia - Calendar Girl
Calendar Girl is the debut album by Sophie Monk, released in 2003. Calendar Girl - Tracks. "Pie Jesu" "Come My Way" "Get the Music On"...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Calendar Reform: Encyclopedia - Calendar Reform
Various reforms to the Gregorian calendar currently used by most of the world have been proposed. Reformers cite several problems with th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Coligny Calendar: Encyclopedia - Coligny Calendar
The Gaulish Coligny Calendar was found in Coligny, Ain, France (46°23′N 5°21′E) near Lyons in 1897, along with the head of a bronze...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Babylonian Calendar: Encyclopedia - Babylonian Calendar
The Babylonian calendar was a lunisolar calendar with years consisting of 12 lunar months, each beginning when a new crescent moon was fi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Advent Calendar: Encyclopedia - Advent Calendar
An Advent calendar is a symbol of the holy season of Advent, celebrated in December near Christmas, another holiday season. The tradition...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Zoroastrian Calendar: Encyclopedia - Zoroastrian Calendar
The Zoroastrian calendar (sometimes referred to as the Persian calendar) has a year that is 365 days long, composed of 12 months of 30 da...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gregorian Calendar: Encyclopedia - Gregorian Calendar
The Gregorian calendar is the calendar that is used nearly everywhere in the world. A modification of the Julian calendar, it was first p...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Calendar: Encyclopedia Ii - Calendar - Calendar Subdivisions
Nearly all calendar systems group consecutive days into "months" and also into "years". In a solar calendar a year approximates Earth's t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Calendar Year: Encyclopedia - Calendar Year
According to the Gregorian calendar, the calendar year begins on January 1 and ends on December 31. Other alignments of the 12-month peri...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Calendar: Encyclopedia Ii - Calendar - Currently Used Calendars
Calendars in widespread use today include the Gregorian calendar, which is the de facto international standard, and is used almost everyw...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Solar Calendar: Encyclopedia Ii - Solar Calendar - Tropical Solar Calendars
If the position of the earth (or the sun) is reckoned with respect to the equinox, then the dates indicate the season (and so is synchron...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Solar Calendar: Encyclopedia Ii - Solar Calendar - Sidereal Solar Calendars
If the position of the earth (see above) is reckoned with respect to the fixed stars, then the dates indicate the zodiacal constellation ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Calendars: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Calendars - Proposed
List of calendars - Reform calendars. The following are proposed reforms of the Gregorian calendar Common-Civil-Calendar-and-Time Inte...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Electoral Calendar: Encyclopedia Ii - Electoral Calendar - 2006
Electoral calendar - January. January 8 2006 Haiti, President, Municipal January 15 2006: Chile, President runoff January 15 2006: ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Celtic Calendar: Encyclopedia Ii - Celtic Calendar - Continental Celtic Calendar
Possibly the oldest material Celtic calendar is the fragmented Coligny calendar, which was discovered in Coligny, France, in 1897. It use...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Calendar: Encyclopedia Ii - Calendar - Uses
The primary practical use of a calendar is to identify days: to be informed about and/or to agree on a future event and to record an even...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Iranian Calendar: Encyclopedia Ii - Iranian Calendar - Calendar Seasonal Error
In the 11th century, Omar Khayyam proposed a rule inserting 8 leap days in every cycle of 33 years as a reform for the calendar then in u...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Attic Calendar: Encyclopedia Ii - Attic Calendar - Festival Calendar
Attic calendar - List of months. No complete list survives anywhere with all twelve months set out in order, but the following reconstr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Darian Calendar: Encyclopedia Ii - Darian Calendar - Martiana Calendar
In 2002 Gangale devised a variant of the Darian calendar that reconciles the months and the sols of the week in a repeating pattern and r...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Iranian Calendar: Encyclopedia Ii - Iranian Calendar - History Of Calendar In Persia
The first calendars based on Zoroastrian cosmology appeared during the later Achaemenian period and though they have evolved and changed ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hindu Calendar: Encyclopedia Ii - Hindu Calendar - Months Of The Lunisolar Calendar
When a new moon occurs before sunrise on a day, that day is said to be the first day of the lunar month. So it is evident that the end of...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Maya Calendar: Encyclopedia Ii - Maya Calendar - Calendar Round
Neither the Tzolkin nor the Haab system numbered the years. The combination of a Tzolkin date and a Haab date was enough to identify a da...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Attic Calendar: Encyclopedia Ii - Attic Calendar - Manipulation Of The Calendar
The Attic calendar was determined on the ground, month by month and year by year, in the light of immediate concerns, political or milita...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gregorian Calendar: Encyclopedia Ii - Gregorian Calendar - Proleptic Gregorian Calendar
The Gregorian calendar can, for certain purposes, be extended backwards to dates preceding its official introduction, producing the prole...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Attic Calendar: Encyclopedia Ii - Attic Calendar - State Calendar
As Ionians, the Athenians had always been divided into four tribes. Although these tribes were never abolished, one of the key reforms at...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Coligny Calendar: Encyclopedia Ii - Coligny Calendar - Months
The festivals of Beltane (Giammonios full moon) and Lughnasadh (Elembivios full moon) are indicated by small sigils [1]. A correspondenc...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Calendar Reform: Encyclopedia Ii - Calendar Reform - Perpetual Calendars
Many calendar reforms have offered solutions to make the calendar perpetual. These reforms would make it easy to work out the day of week...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Darian Calendar: Encyclopedia Ii - Darian Calendar - Calendar Layout
The year is divided into 24 months. The first 5 months in each quarter have 28 sols. The final month has only 27 sols unless it is the fi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Iranian Calendar: Encyclopedia Ii - Iranian Calendar - Background
Persians have been keen on the idea and importance of having a calendar system throughout their recorded history. They were among the fir...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hindu Calendar: Encyclopedia Ii - Hindu Calendar - Correspondence Of The Lunisolar Calendar To The Solar Calendar
A lunisolar calendar is always a calendar based on the moon's celestial motion, which in a way keeps itself close to a solar calendar bas...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hindu Calendar: Encyclopedia Ii - Hindu Calendar - History
The Hindu Calendar descends from the Vedic times. There are many references to calendrics in the Vedas. The Vedānga (adjunct to Veda) ca...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chinese Calendar: Encyclopedia Ii - Chinese Calendar - Calendar Rules
The following rules outline the Chinese calendar since c.104 BCE. Note that the rules allow either mean or true motions of the Sun and Mo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chinese Calendar: Encyclopedia Ii - Chinese Calendar - Calendar Rules
The following rules outline the Chinese calendar since c.104 BCE. Note that the rules allow either mean or true motions of the Sun and Mo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gregorian Calendar: Encyclopedia Ii - Gregorian Calendar - Calendar Seasonal Error
This image shows the difference between the Gregorian calendar and the seasons. The Y axis is "days error" and the X axis is Gregorian c...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hebrew Calendar: Encyclopedia Ii - Hebrew Calendar - Modern Calendar
Hebrew calendar - Epoch. The epoch of the modern Hebrew calendar is 1 Tishri AM 1 (AM = anno mundi = in the year of the world), which i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Iranian Calendar: Encyclopedia Ii - Iranian Calendar - Details
The Iranian calendar year begins on the midnight between the two consecutive solar noons which include the instant of the Northern spring...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Electoral Calendar: Encyclopedia Ii - Electoral Calendar - 2007
Electoral calendar - April. April : French Presidential Elections, 1st round Electoral calendar - May. May 3: UK local and re...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Iranian Calendar: Encyclopedia Ii - Iranian Calendar - Details
The Iranian calendar year begins on the midnight between the two consecutive solar noons which include the instant of the Northern spring...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hindu Calendar: Encyclopedia Ii - Hindu Calendar - Eras
Hindu mythology speaks of four eras or ages, of which we are currently in the last. The four are: Krita Yuga or Satya Yuga Tretā Yuga D...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hindu Calendar: Encyclopedia Ii - Hindu Calendar - Month And Year Of The Solar Calendar
Now that the days are defined, we shall speak of how the solar calendar reckons its months and year. As has been previously noted, the su...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chinese Calendar: Encyclopedia Ii - Chinese Calendar - Holidays
The Chinese calendar year has nine main festivals, seven determined by the lunisolar calendar, and the other two derived from the solar a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chinese Calendar: Encyclopedia Ii - Chinese Calendar - Holidays
The Chinese calendar year has nine main festivals, seven determined by the lunisolar calendar, and the other two derived from the solar a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Coligny Calendar: Encyclopedia Ii - Coligny Calendar - System
The Continental Celtic calendar as reconstructed from the calendars of Coligny and Villards d'Heria had the following properties: it was...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Maya Calendar: Encyclopedia Ii - Maya Calendar - Tzolk'in
Mayanists have bestowed the name tzolkin (or tzolk'in, in the revised orthography which is now preferred) on the Maya version of the Meso...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lunisolar Calendar: Encyclopedia Ii - Lunisolar Calendar - Examples
The Hebrew, Hindu lunar, Buddhist, Tibetan calendars, and Chinese calendar used alone until 1912 and then used along with the Gregorian C...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Roman Calendar: Encyclopedia Ii - Roman Calendar - History Of The Calendar
To begin with it was a lunar calendar containing ten months, starting at the vernal equinox, traditionally invented by Romulus, the found...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Maya Calendar: Encyclopedia Ii - Maya Calendar - Haab
The Haab was the Maya solar calendar made up of eighteen months of twenty days each and a five day month at the end of the year known as ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mozilla Calendar: Encyclopedia Ii - Mozilla Calendar - Mozilla Calendar
The Mozilla Calendar project was announced by the Mozilla Organization (now the Mozilla Foundation) in October 2001. The Mozilla Calendar...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chinese Calendar: Encyclopedia Ii - Chinese Calendar - History
Chinese calendar - Legendary beginnings. According to legend, the Chinese calendar developed during the first millennium BCE. It is sai...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chinese Calendar: Encyclopedia Ii - Chinese Calendar - History
Chinese calendar - Legendary beginnings. According to legend, the Chinese calendar developed during the first millennium BCE. It is sai...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gregorian Calendar: Encyclopedia Ii - Gregorian Calendar - Accuracy
The Gregorian calendar improves the approximation made by the Julian calendar by skipping 3 Julian leap days in every 400 years, giving a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gregorian Calendar: Encyclopedia Ii - Gregorian Calendar - History
Gregorian calendar - Invention. The motivation of the Catholic Church in adjusting the calendar was to have Easter celebrated at the ti...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Calendar Reform: Encyclopedia Ii - Calendar Reform - 13-month Calendar Proposals
Some calendar reformers seek to equalize the length of months in each year. This results in a calendar that has 13 months of 28-days each...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hebrew Calendar: Encyclopedia Ii - Hebrew Calendar - History
Hebrew calendar - Biblical period. Jews have been using a lunisolar calendar since Biblical times, but originally referred to the month...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hebrew Calendar: Encyclopedia Ii - Hebrew Calendar - Accuracy
The average length of the month assumed by the calendar is correct within a fraction of a second (although individual months may be a few...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hindu Calendar: Encyclopedia Ii - Hindu Calendar - Another Kind Of Lunisolar Calendar
There is another kind of lunisolar calendar which differs from the former in the way the months are named. This section describes the dif...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Japanese Calendar: Encyclopedia Ii - Japanese Calendar - Months
The modern Japanese names for the months literally translate to "first month", "second month", and so on. The corresponding number is com...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hindu Calendar: Encyclopedia Ii - Hindu Calendar - Year Numbering
The epoch (starting point or first day of the first year) of the current era of Hindu calendar (both solar and lunisolar) is BCE 3102 Jan...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Celtic Calendar: Encyclopedia Ii - Celtic Calendar - Mediaeval Irish And Welsh Calendars
The first part of the year started at Samhain, which was the first of November, never far from what would become Halloween and the follow...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Roman Calendar: Encyclopedia Ii - Roman Calendar - Years
In the Roman Republic, the years were not counted. Instead they were named after the consuls who were in power at the beginning of the ye...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mozilla Calendar: Encyclopedia Ii - Mozilla Calendar - Lightning
Announced on December 22, 2004, the Lightning project aims to create an extension that adds calendar and scheduling functionality to the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Zork Calendar: Encyclopedia Ii - Zork Calendar - Holidays
The following are holidays known to be observed, at least in the year 883 GUE. Lord Dimwit Flathead's birthday is also observed on every ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Japanese Calendar: Encyclopedia Ii - Japanese Calendar - Years
Since the adoption of the Gregorian calendar, three different systems for counting years have or had been used in Japan: The Western Com...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bahá'í Calendar: Encyclopedia Ii - Bahá'í Calendar - History
The Bahá'í calendar started from the original Badí‘ calendar, created by the Báb. Bahá'u'lláh confirmed and adopted this calendar...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Darian Calendar: Encyclopedia Ii - Darian Calendar - Disputed Points
Certain details of the Darian calendar have been the subject of dispute. The greatest of these disputes surrounded the selection of the M...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Maya Calendar: Encyclopedia Ii - Maya Calendar - General Overview
The most important of these calendars is one with a period of 260 days. This 260-day calendar was prevalent across all Mesoamerican socie...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Coligny Calendar: Encyclopedia Ii - Coligny Calendar - Gaulish Calendar In Historical Sources
Coligny calendar - Pliny the Elder. The Natural History of Pliny the Elder states, in a discussion of Drudical gathering of mistletoe (...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mozilla Calendar: Encyclopedia Ii - Mozilla Calendar - Sunbird
Mozilla Sunbird is the standalone version of Mozilla Calendar, announced in July 2003. The latest version is 0.3 alpha1. On June 15, 2004...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Attic Calendar: Encyclopedia Ii - Attic Calendar - Local Focus Of The System
The Attic calendar was an exclusively local phenomenon, used to regulate the internal affairs of the Athenians and with little relevance ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Islamic Calendar: Encyclopedia Ii - Islamic Calendar - Months
Each month has either 29 or 30 days, but usually in no discernible order. Traditionally, the first day of each month was the day (beginni...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Islamic Calendar: Encyclopedia Ii - Islamic Calendar - Months
Each month has either 29 or 30 days, but usually in no discernible order. Traditionally, the first day of each month was the day (beginni...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - World Calendar: Encyclopedia Ii - World Calendar - Features
The World Calendar is a Perpetual calendar of 12 months consisting of exactly 364 days in each year. Every year begins on a Sunday, and e...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Maya Calendar: Encyclopedia Ii - Maya Calendar - Maya Concepts Of Time
With the development of the place-notational Long Count calendar (believed to have been inherited from other Mesoamerican cultures), the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - French Republican Calendar: Encyclopedia Ii - French Republican Calendar - Converting To Gregorian Calendar
The calendar was abolished in the year XIV (1805). After this date, opinions seem to differ on the method by which the leap years would h...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Maya Calendar: Encyclopedia Ii - Maya Calendar - Long Count
Since Calendar Round dates can only distinguish within 18980 days, equivalent to around 52 solar years, the cycle repeats roughly once ea...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Maya Calendar: Encyclopedia Ii - Maya Calendar - Venus Cycle
Another important calendar for the Maya was the Venus cycle. The Maya were excellent astronomers, and could calculate the Venus cycle ext...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - French Republican Calendar: Encyclopedia Ii - French Republican Calendar - Criticism And Shortcomings Of The Calendar
Leap years in the calendar are a point of great dispute, due to the contradicting statements requiring the year to start at the autumnal ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Dream Interpreation Calendar: Dream Interpretations Dictionary - Calendar
  Dream Interpretation Calendar The calendar stands for how you use and plan your time and live your life. Seeing a calendar on...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Calendar Dream Symbol: Dreams Interpretation Dictionary - Calendar
Calendar Dream Symbols: A need to be better organized. Different periods of your life that need analyzing.   (Source: Myths - Dre...   » Read the article