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| ARTICLES RELATED TO Gregorian Calendar | | | |  Gregorian Calendar: Encyclopedia II - Year numbering - Islamic calendarThe Islamic calendar is a lunar calendar and has a normal year length of about 354 days, significantly shorter than the solar year, so there is no simple conversion between Gregorian and Islamic year numbers. Moreover, the end of each month of the Islamic calendar depends on local observations, so different countries can and do follow different calendars.
AH stands for Anno Hegirae, Latin for in the year of the Hijra. In AH 17, the year AH 1 was assigned to the year during which Muhammad emigrated from Mecca to the city of Medina.
BH refers ...
See also:Year numbering, Year numbering - Gregorian calendar, Year numbering - Julian calendar, Year numbering - External links, Year numbering - Proposed reformed calendars, Year numbering - Islamic calendar, Year numbering - Hebrew Calendar, Year numbering - French Revolutionary Calendar, Year numbering - Other calendars Read more here: » Year numbering: Encyclopedia II - Year numbering - Islamic calendar |
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| | | | | Gregorian Calendar: Encyclopedia II - Chinese calendar - Purpose of the Intercalary Months Most people, upon using or studying the Chinese calendar, are perplexed by the intercalary month because of its seemingly unpredictable nature. As mentioned above, the intercalary month refers to additional months added to the calendar in some years to correct for its deviation from the astronomical year, a function similar to that of the extra day in February in leap years.
However, because of the complex astronomical knowledge required to calculate if and when an intercalary month needs to be inserted, to most people, it is simply a mystery. This has led to a superstitio ...
See also:Chinese calendar, Chinese calendar - History, Chinese calendar - Legendary beginnings, Chinese calendar - Early History, Chinese calendar - The Taichuli calendar, Chinese calendar - The True Sun and Moon, Chinese calendar - The Gregorian Reform and the 1929 time change, Chinese calendar - Calendar Rules, Chinese calendar - Year Markings, Chinese calendar - Regnal Years, Chinese calendar - The Stem-Branch Cycle, Chinese calendar - Solar Year versus Lunar Year, Chinese calendar - Hours of the Day, Chinese calendar - The Chinese Zodiac, Chinese calendar - Solar term, Chinese calendar - Holidays, Chinese calendar - Purpose of the Intercalary Months, Chinese calendar - The relevance of the calendar today, Chinese calendar - Practical uses, Chinese calendar - Cultural issues Read more here: » Chinese calendar: Encyclopedia II - Chinese calendar - Purpose of the Intercalary Months |
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| | | | | Gregorian Calendar: Encyclopedia II - Chinese calendar - Purpose of the intercalary months Most people, upon using or studying the Chinese calendar, are perplexed by the intercalary month because of its seemingly unpredictable nature. As mentioned above, the intercalary month refers to additional months added to the calendar in some years to correct for its deviation from the astronomical year, a function similar to that of the extra day in February in leap years.
However, because of the complex astronomical knowledge required to calculate if and when an intercalary month needs to be inserted, to most people, it is simply a mystery. This has led to a superstitio ...
See also:Chinese calendar, Chinese calendar - History, Chinese calendar - Legendary beginnings, Chinese calendar - Early history, Chinese calendar - The Taichuli calendar, Chinese calendar - The true sun and moon, Chinese calendar - The Gregorian Reform and the 1929 time change, Chinese calendar - Calendar rules, Chinese calendar - Year markings, Chinese calendar - Regnal years, Chinese calendar - The stem-branch cycle, Chinese calendar - Solar year versus lunar year, Chinese calendar - Hours of the day, Chinese calendar - The Chinese zodiac, Chinese calendar - Solar term, Chinese calendar - Holidays, Chinese calendar - Purpose of the intercalary months, Chinese calendar - The relevance of the calendar today, Chinese calendar - Practical uses, Chinese calendar - Cultural issues Read more here: » Chinese calendar: Encyclopedia II - Chinese calendar - Purpose of the intercalary months |
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| | | | | Gregorian 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 equinox while adding a leap day every 4 years (like the Gregorian calendar). The years III, VII, and XI were observed as leap years, and the years XV and XX were also planned as such.
A fixed arithmetic rule for determining leap years was proposed in the name of the Committee of Public Education by Gilbert Romme on 19 Floréal An III (8 May 1795). The proposed rule was to ...
See also:French Republican Calendar, French Republican Calendar - Criticism and shortcomings of the calendar, French Republican Calendar - The months, French Republican Calendar - The ten days of the week, French Republican Calendar - The days of the year, French Republican Calendar - Autumn, French Republican Calendar - Winter, French Republican Calendar - Spring, French Republican Calendar - Summer, French Republican Calendar - Extra days, French Republican Calendar - Converting to Gregorian Calendar, French Republican Calendar - The French Republican calendar in fiction Read more here: » French Republican Calendar: Encyclopedia II - French Republican Calendar - Criticism and shortcomings of the calendar |
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| | | | | Gregorian Calendar: Encyclopedia II - Chinese calendar - Solar term Chinese months follow the phases of the moon. As a result, they do not accurately follow the seasons of the solar year. To assist farmers to help farmers decide when to plant or harvest crops, the drafters of the calendar put in 24 seasonal markers, which follow the solar year, and are called jiéqì 節氣.
The term Jiéqì is usually translated as "Solar Terms" (lit. Nodes of Weather). Each node is the instant when the sun reaches one of twenty-four equally spaced points along the ecliptic, including the solstices and ...
See also:Chinese calendar, Chinese calendar - History, Chinese calendar - Legendary beginnings, Chinese calendar - Early History, Chinese calendar - The Taichuli calendar, Chinese calendar - The True Sun and Moon, Chinese calendar - The Gregorian Reform and the 1929 time change, Chinese calendar - Calendar Rules, Chinese calendar - Year Markings, Chinese calendar - Regnal Years, Chinese calendar - The Stem-Branch Cycle, Chinese calendar - Solar Year versus Lunar Year, Chinese calendar - Hours of the Day, Chinese calendar - The Chinese Zodiac, Chinese calendar - Solar term, Chinese calendar - Holidays, Chinese calendar - Purpose of the Intercalary Months, Chinese calendar - The relevance of the calendar today, Chinese calendar - Practical uses, Chinese calendar - Cultural issues Read more here: » Chinese calendar: Encyclopedia II - Chinese calendar - Solar term |
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| | | | | Gregorian Calendar: Encyclopedia II - Computus - Tabular methods
Computus - Gregorian calendar.
This method for the computation of the date of Easter was introduced with the Gregorian calendar reform in 1582.
First determine the epact for the year. The epact can have a value from "*" (=0 or 30) to 29 days. The first day of a lunar month is considered the day of the New Moon. The 14th day is considered the day of the Full Moon.
The epacts for the current (anno 2003) Metonic cycle are:
(M=March, A=April)
This table can be extended for previous and following 19-y ...
See also:Computus, Computus - History, Computus - Theory, Computus - Tabular methods, Computus - Gregorian calendar, Computus - Julian calendar, Computus - Algorithms, Computus - Gauss's algorithm, Computus - Meeus/Jones/Butcher Gregorian algorithm, Computus - Meeus Julian algorithm Read more here: » Computus: Encyclopedia II - Computus - Tabular methods |
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| | | | | Gregorian Calendar: Encyclopedia II - Chinese calendar - Solar term Chinese months follow the phases of the moon. As a result, they do not accurately follow the seasons of the solar year. To assist farmers to help farmers decide when to plant or harvest crops, the drafters of the calendar put in 24 seasonal markers, which follow the solar year, and are called jiéqì 節氣.
The term Jiéqì is usually translated as "Solar Terms" (lit. Nodes of Weather). Each node is the instant when the sun reaches one of twenty-four equally spaced points along the ecliptic, including the solstices and ...
See also:Chinese calendar, Chinese calendar - History, Chinese calendar - Legendary beginnings, Chinese calendar - Early history, Chinese calendar - The Taichuli calendar, Chinese calendar - The true sun and moon, Chinese calendar - The Gregorian Reform and the 1929 time change, Chinese calendar - Calendar rules, Chinese calendar - Year markings, Chinese calendar - Regnal years, Chinese calendar - The stem-branch cycle, Chinese calendar - Solar year versus lunar year, Chinese calendar - Hours of the day, Chinese calendar - The Chinese zodiac, Chinese calendar - Solar term, Chinese calendar - Holidays, Chinese calendar - Purpose of the intercalary months, Chinese calendar - The relevance of the calendar today, Chinese calendar - Practical uses, Chinese calendar - Cultural issues Read more here: » Chinese calendar: Encyclopedia II - Chinese calendar - Solar term |
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| | | | | Gregorian Calendar: Encyclopedia II - Chinese calendar - The Chinese Zodiac The Twelve animals (十二生肖 shí'èr shēngxiào, or colloquially 十二屬相 shí'èr shǔxiāng) representing the twelve Earthly Branches are, in order, the rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, sheep (or goat), monkey, rooster, dog, and pig.
A legend explains the sequence in which the animals were assigned. Supposedly, the twelve animals fought over the precedence of the animals in the cycle of years in the calendar, so the Chinese gods held a contest to determine the order. All the animals lined up on t ...
See also:Chinese calendar, Chinese calendar - History, Chinese calendar - Legendary beginnings, Chinese calendar - Early History, Chinese calendar - The Taichuli calendar, Chinese calendar - The True Sun and Moon, Chinese calendar - The Gregorian Reform and the 1929 time change, Chinese calendar - Calendar Rules, Chinese calendar - Year Markings, Chinese calendar - Regnal Years, Chinese calendar - The Stem-Branch Cycle, Chinese calendar - Solar Year versus Lunar Year, Chinese calendar - Hours of the Day, Chinese calendar - The Chinese Zodiac, Chinese calendar - Solar term, Chinese calendar - Holidays, Chinese calendar - Purpose of the Intercalary Months, Chinese calendar - The relevance of the calendar today, Chinese calendar - Practical uses, Chinese calendar - Cultural issues Read more here: » Chinese calendar: Encyclopedia II - Chinese calendar - The Chinese Zodiac |
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| | | | | Gregorian Calendar: Encyclopedia II - Chinese calendar - The Chinese zodiac The Twelve animals (十二生肖 shí'èr shēngxiào, or colloquially 十二屬相 shí'èr shǔxiāng) representing the twelve Earthly Branches are, in order, the rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, sheep (or goat), monkey, rooster, dog, and pig.
A legend explains the sequence in which the animals were assigned. Supposedly, the twelve animals fought over the precedence of the animals in the cycle of years in the calendar, so the Chinese gods held a contest to determine the order. All the animals lined up on t ...
See also:Chinese calendar, Chinese calendar - History, Chinese calendar - Legendary beginnings, Chinese calendar - Early history, Chinese calendar - The Taichuli calendar, Chinese calendar - The true sun and moon, Chinese calendar - The Gregorian Reform and the 1929 time change, Chinese calendar - Calendar rules, Chinese calendar - Year markings, Chinese calendar - Regnal years, Chinese calendar - The stem-branch cycle, Chinese calendar - Solar year versus lunar year, Chinese calendar - Hours of the day, Chinese calendar - The Chinese zodiac, Chinese calendar - Solar term, Chinese calendar - Holidays, Chinese calendar - Purpose of the intercalary months, Chinese calendar - The relevance of the calendar today, Chinese calendar - Practical uses, Chinese calendar - Cultural issues Read more here: » Chinese calendar: Encyclopedia II - Chinese calendar - The Chinese zodiac |
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| | | | | Gregorian 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 Moon to be used, depending on the historical period.
The months are lunar months, such that the first day of each month beginning at midnight is the day of the astronomical new moon.
Each year has 12 regular months, which are numbered in sequence (1 to 12) and have alternative names. Every second or third year has an intercalary month (閏月 rùnyuè), which may come after any re ...
See also:Chinese calendar, Chinese calendar - History, Chinese calendar - Legendary beginnings, Chinese calendar - Early History, Chinese calendar - The Taichuli calendar, Chinese calendar - The True Sun and Moon, Chinese calendar - The Gregorian Reform and the 1929 time change, Chinese calendar - Calendar Rules, Chinese calendar - Year Markings, Chinese calendar - Regnal Years, Chinese calendar - The Stem-Branch Cycle, Chinese calendar - Solar Year versus Lunar Year, Chinese calendar - Hours of the Day, Chinese calendar - The Chinese Zodiac, Chinese calendar - Solar term, Chinese calendar - Holidays, Chinese calendar - Purpose of the Intercalary Months, Chinese calendar - The relevance of the calendar today, Chinese calendar - Practical uses, Chinese calendar - Cultural issues Read more here: » Chinese calendar: Encyclopedia II - Chinese calendar - Calendar Rules |
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| | | | | Gregorian Calendar: Encyclopedia II - Year numbering - Julian calendar The Julian calendar was in use from 45 BC to AD 1582, and in the British Empire until AD 1752, Russia until AD 1918, Greece until AD 1923 and Turkey until AD 1926. It has a slightly longer average year length than the Gregorian calendar, and therefore falls slowly out of step with the solar year. It is still used by Orthodox Churches for reckoning the date of Easter, but no longer for year numbering.
AUC stands for Ab Urbe Condita, Latin for from the foundation of the city (meaning Rome). Today, Varro's epoc ...
See also:Year numbering, Year numbering - Gregorian calendar, Year numbering - Julian calendar, Year numbering - External links, Year numbering - Proposed reformed calendars, Year numbering - Islamic calendar, Year numbering - Hebrew Calendar, Year numbering - French Revolutionary Calendar, Year numbering - Other calendars Read more here: » Year numbering: Encyclopedia II - Year numbering - Julian calendar |
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| | | | | Gregorian 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 Moon to be used, depending on the historical period.
The months are lunar months, such that the first day of each month beginning at midnight is the day of the astronomical new moon.
Each year has 12 regular months, which are numbered in sequence (1 to 12) and have alternative names. Every second or third year has an intercalary month (閏月 rùnyuè), which may come after any re ...
See also:Chinese calendar, Chinese calendar - History, Chinese calendar - Legendary beginnings, Chinese calendar - Early history, Chinese calendar - The Taichuli calendar, Chinese calendar - The true sun and moon, Chinese calendar - The Gregorian Reform and the 1929 time change, Chinese calendar - Calendar rules, Chinese calendar - Year markings, Chinese calendar - Regnal years, Chinese calendar - The stem-branch cycle, Chinese calendar - Solar year versus lunar year, Chinese calendar - Hours of the day, Chinese calendar - The Chinese zodiac, Chinese calendar - Solar term, Chinese calendar - Holidays, Chinese calendar - Purpose of the intercalary months, Chinese calendar - The relevance of the calendar today, Chinese calendar - Practical uses, Chinese calendar - Cultural issues Read more here: » Chinese calendar: Encyclopedia II - Chinese calendar - Calendar rules |
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| | | | | Gregorian Calendar: Encyclopedia II - Chinese calendar - Year Markings
Chinese calendar - Regnal Years.
Traditional Chinese years were not continuously numbered in the way that the BC/AD system is. More commonly, official year counting always used some form of a regnal year. This system began in 841 BC during the Zhou dynasty. Prior to this, years were not marked at all, and historical events prior to this cannot be dated exactly.
In 841 BC, the Li King Hu of Zhou (周历王胡) was ousted by a civilian uprising (国人暴动), and the country was governed for the next fourte ...
See also:Chinese calendar, Chinese calendar - History, Chinese calendar - Legendary beginnings, Chinese calendar - Early History, Chinese calendar - The Taichuli calendar, Chinese calendar - The True Sun and Moon, Chinese calendar - The Gregorian Reform and the 1929 time change, Chinese calendar - Calendar Rules, Chinese calendar - Year Markings, Chinese calendar - Regnal Years, Chinese calendar - The Stem-Branch Cycle, Chinese calendar - Solar Year versus Lunar Year, Chinese calendar - Hours of the Day, Chinese calendar - The Chinese Zodiac, Chinese calendar - Solar term, Chinese calendar - Holidays, Chinese calendar - Purpose of the Intercalary Months, Chinese calendar - The relevance of the calendar today, Chinese calendar - Practical uses, Chinese calendar - Cultural issues Read more here: » Chinese calendar: Encyclopedia II - Chinese calendar - Year Markings |
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| | | | | Gregorian Calendar: Encyclopedia II - Chinese calendar - Year markings
Chinese calendar - Regnal years.
Traditional Chinese years were not continuously numbered in the way that the BC/AD system is. More commonly, official year counting always used some form of a regnal year. This system began in 841 BC during the Zhou dynasty. Prior to this, years were not marked at all, and historical events prior to this cannot be dated exactly.
In 841 BC, the Li King Hu of Zhou (周历王胡) was ousted by a civilian uprising (国人暴动), and the country was governed for the next fourte ...
See also:Chinese calendar, Chinese calendar - History, Chinese calendar - Legendary beginnings, Chinese calendar - Early history, Chinese calendar - The Taichuli calendar, Chinese calendar - The true sun and moon, Chinese calendar - The Gregorian Reform and the 1929 time change, Chinese calendar - Calendar rules, Chinese calendar - Year markings, Chinese calendar - Regnal years, Chinese calendar - The stem-branch cycle, Chinese calendar - Solar year versus lunar year, Chinese calendar - Hours of the day, Chinese calendar - The Chinese zodiac, Chinese calendar - Solar term, Chinese calendar - Holidays, Chinese calendar - Purpose of the intercalary months, Chinese calendar - The relevance of the calendar today, Chinese calendar - Practical uses, Chinese calendar - Cultural issues Read more here: » Chinese calendar: Encyclopedia II - Chinese calendar - Year markings |
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| | | | | | Gregorian Calendar: Encyclopedia II - French Republican Calendar - The days of the year Instead of most days having a saint as in the Catholic Church's calendar, each day has a plant, a tool or an animal associated with it.
French Republican Calendar - Autumn.
Raisin (Grape)
Safran (Saffron)
Châtaigne (Chestnut)
Colchique (Crocus)
Cheval (Horse)
Balsamine (Balsamine)
Carotte (Carrot)
Amarante (Amaranth)
Panais (Parsnip)
Cuve (Barrel)
Pomme de terre (Potato)
Immortelle (Everlasting flower) ...
See also:French Republican Calendar, French Republican Calendar - Criticism and shortcomings of the calendar, French Republican Calendar - The months, French Republican Calendar - The ten days of the week, French Republican Calendar - The days of the year, French Republican Calendar - Autumn, French Republican Calendar - Winter, French Republican Calendar - Spring, French Republican Calendar - Summer, French Republican Calendar - Extra days, French Republican Calendar - Converting to Gregorian Calendar, French Republican Calendar - The French Republican calendar in fiction Read more here: » French Republican Calendar: Encyclopedia II - French Republican Calendar - The days of the year |
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| | | | | Gregorian Calendar: Encyclopedia II - French Republican Calendar - The days of the year Instead of most days having a saint as in the Catholic Church's calendar, each day has an animal (days ending in 5), a tool (days ending in 0) or a plant (all other days) associated with it.
French Republican Calendar - Autumn.
Raisin (Grape)
Safran (Saffron)
Châtaigne (Chestnut)
Colchique (Crocus)
Cheval (Horse)
Balsamine (Balsamine)
Carotte (Carrot)
Amarante (Amaranth)
Panais (Parsnip)
Cuve (Barrel)
Pomme de ...
See also:French Republican Calendar, French Republican Calendar - Criticism and shortcomings of the calendar, French Republican Calendar - The months, French Republican Calendar - The ten days of the week, French Republican Calendar - The days of the year, French Republican Calendar - Autumn, French Republican Calendar - Winter, French Republican Calendar - Spring, French Republican Calendar - Summer, French Republican Calendar - Extra days, French Republican Calendar - Converting to Gregorian Calendar, French Republican Calendar - The French Republican calendar in fiction Read more here: » French Republican Calendar: Encyclopedia II - French Republican Calendar - The days of the year |
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| | | | | Gregorian Calendar: Encyclopedia II - French Republican Calendar - The months The Republican calendar year began at the autumn equinox and had twelve months of 30 days each, which were given new names based on nature:
Autumn:
Vendémiaire (from Latin vindemia, "vintage") Starting Sept 22, 23 or 24
Brumaire (from French brume, "mist") Starting Oct 22, 23 or 24
Frimaire (From French frimas, "frost") Starting Nov 21, 22 or 23
Winter:
Nivôse (from Latin Nivosus, "snowy") Starting Dec 21, 22 or 23
Pluviôse (from Lat ...
See also:French Republican Calendar, French Republican Calendar - Criticism and shortcomings of the calendar, French Republican Calendar - The months, French Republican Calendar - The ten days of the week, French Republican Calendar - The days of the year, French Republican Calendar - Autumn, French Republican Calendar - Winter, French Republican Calendar - Spring, French Republican Calendar - Summer, French Republican Calendar - Extra days, French Republican Calendar - Converting to Gregorian Calendar, French Republican Calendar - The French Republican calendar in fiction Read more here: » French Republican Calendar: Encyclopedia II - French Republican Calendar - The months |
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| | | | | Gregorian Calendar: Encyclopedia II - Leap year - Long term leap year rules The accumulated difference between the Gregorian calendar and the vernal equinoctial year amounts to 1 day in about 8,000 years. This suggests that the calendar needs to be improved by another refinement to the leap year rule: perhaps by avoiding leap years in years divisible by 8,000.
(The most common such proposal is to avoid leap years in years divisible by 4,000 [1]. This is based on the difference between the Gregorian calendar and the mean tropical year. Others claim, erroneously, that the Gregorian calendar ...
See also:Leap year, Leap year - Gregorian calendar, Leap year - Which day is the leap day?, Leap year - Julian calendar, Leap year - Revised Julian Calendar, Leap year - Chinese calendar, Leap year - Hebrew calendar, Leap year - Hindu Calendar, Leap year - Iranian calendar, Leap year - Long term leap year rules, Leap year - Marriage proposal, Leap year - Saint Patrick and the leap year, Leap year - Birthdays Read more here: » Leap year: Encyclopedia II - Leap year - Long term leap year rules |
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| | | | | Gregorian Calendar: Encyclopedia II - Leap year - Revised Julian Calendar The Revised Julian calendar adds an extra day to February in years divisible by 4, except for years divisible by 100 that do not leave a remainder of 200 or 600 when divided by 900. This rule agrees with the rule for the Gregorian calendar until 2799. The first year that dates in the Revised Julian calendar will not agree with the those in the Gregorian calendar will be 2800, because it will be a leap year in the Grego ...
See also:Leap year, Leap year - Gregorian calendar, Leap year - Which day is the leap day?, Leap year - Julian calendar, Leap year - Revised Julian Calendar, Leap year - Chinese calendar, Leap year - Hebrew calendar, Leap year - Hindu Calendar, Leap year - Iranian calendar, Leap year - Long term leap year rules, Leap year - Marriage proposal, Leap year - Saint Patrick and the leap year, Leap year - Birthdays Read more here: » Leap year: Encyclopedia II - Leap year - Revised Julian Calendar |
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| | | | | Gregorian Calendar: Encyclopedia II - Month - Months in various calendars
Month - Julian and Gregorian calendars.
The Gregorian calendar, like the Julian calendar before it, has twelve months:
January, 31 days
February, 28 days, 29 in leap years, or 30 on certain occasions in related calendars
March, 31 days
April, 30 days
May, 31 days
June, 30 days
July, 31 days
August, 31 days
September, 30 days
October, 31 days
November, 30 days
December, 31 days
For the rationale beh ...
See also:Month, Month - Astronomical background, Month - Sidereal month, Month - Tropical month, Month - Anomalistic month, Month - Draconic month, Month - Synodic month, Month - Month lengths, Month - Calendrical consequences, Month - Months in various calendars, Month - Julian and Gregorian calendars, Month - French Republican calendar, Month - Islamic calendar, Month - Hebrew Calendar, Month - Hindu Calendar, Month - Iranian/Persian calendar, Month - Icelandic/Old Norse calendar, Month - Notes Read more here: » Month: Encyclopedia II - Month - Months in various calendars |
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| | | | | Gregorian Calendar: Encyclopedia II - Wheel of the Year - Antiquity of the Wheel The four cross-quarter festivals (often called 'fire festivals') of Imbolc, Beltaine, Lughnasadh and Samhain are historically authentic and well attested in mediaeval Ireland; they probably derive from the first century Coligny Calendar which, being a lunisolar calendar, does not correspond to fixed days in the solar calendar.
The feast of Midwinter was indeed celebrated in England, being derived from the Roman feast of Saturnalia.
However, the Wheel of the Year as such is a modern Wiccan construct, combining various traditions ...
See also:Wheel of the Year, Wheel of the Year - Antiquity of the Wheel, Wheel of the Year - Gregorian months in the wheel of the year, Wheel of the Year - Astrological signs in the wheel of the year Read more here: » Wheel of the Year: Encyclopedia II - Wheel of the Year - Antiquity of the Wheel |
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