Encyclopedia - Leap Year: Encyclopedia Ii - Leap Year - Birthdays
A person who was born on 29 February may be called a "leapling". In non-leap years they usually celebrate their birthday on 28 February o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Leap Year: 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 sug...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Leap Year: Encyclopedia Ii - Leap Year - Julian Calendar
The Julian calendar adds an extra day to February in years divisible by 4. This rule gives an average year length of 365.25 days. The exc...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Leap Year: Encyclopedia Ii - Leap Year - Gregorian Calendar
The Gregorian calendar, the current standard calendar in most of the world, adds a 29th day to February in all years evenly divisible by ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Leap Year: 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 ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Leap Year: Encyclopedia Ii - Leap Year - Hebrew Calendar
The Hebrew calendar is also lunisolar with an embolistic month. In the Hebrew calendar the extra month is called Adar Alef (first Adar) a...   » 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 - 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 - Leap Year: Encyclopedia Ii - Leap Year - Marriage Proposal
There is a tradition, said to go back to Saint Patrick and Saint Bridget in 5th century Ireland, whereby women may only make marriage pro...   » 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 - Common Year: Encyclopedia - Common Year
A common year is a calendar year of exactly 365 days and so is not a leap year. More generally it is a calendar year without intercalatio...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Common Year Starting On Sunday: Encyclopedia - Common Year Starting On Sunday
This is the calendar for any common year starting on Sunday (dominical letter A). For example, 2006. (A common year is a year with 365 da...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Common Year Starting On Saturday: Encyclopedia - Common Year Starting On Saturday
This is the calendar for any common year starting on Saturday (dominical letter B) e.g. 2005. (A common year is a year with 365 days -- i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Intercalation: Encyclopedia - Intercalation
The solar year does not have whole number of days, but a calendar year must have a whole number of days. The only way to reconcile the tw...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Adar: Encyclopedia - Adar
Adar (אֲדָר, Standard Hebrew Adar, Tiberian Hebrew ʾĂḏār: from Akkadian adaru) is the sixth month of the religious year and the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1584: Encyclopedia - 1584
1584 was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar or a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. 1584 - Ev...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1588: Encyclopedia - 1588
1588 was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar or a leap year starting on Monday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar....   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1852: Encyclopedia - 1852
Canada - Mexico - South Africa - U.S. Rail Transport - Science - Sports Births - Deaths 1852 (MDCCCLII) was a leap year starting on Thur...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - February: Encyclopedia - February
February is the second month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. It is the shortest Gregorian month and the only month with the length...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1868: Encyclopedia - 1868
Canada - Mexico - South Africa - U.S. Rail Transport - Science - Sports Births - Deaths 1868 (MDCCCLXVIII) was a leap year starting on W...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1872: Encyclopedia - 1872
Canada - Mexico - South Africa - U.S. Rail Transport - Science - Sports Births - Deaths 1872 (MDCCCLXXII) was a leap year starting on Mo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1776: Encyclopedia - 1776
1776 in topic: Arts Architecture - Literature - Music Other topics Canada - Mexico - Science Lists of leaders: Colonial governors - State...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 2016: Encyclopedia - 2016
2016 (MMXVI) is a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. It corresponds to 5776/7 in the Hebrew Calendar. 2016 - Events....   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1788: Encyclopedia - 1788
1788 in topic: Arts Architecture - Literature - Music Other topics Canada - Mexico - Science Lists of leaders: Colonial governors - State...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - December 21: Encyclopedia - December 21
December 21 is the 355th day of the year (356th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 10 days remaining. December 21 - Eve...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1792: Encyclopedia - 1792
1792 in topic: Arts Architecture - Literature - Music Other topics Canada - Mexico - Science Lists of leaders: Colonial governors - State...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Phalguna: Encyclopedia - Phalguna
Phalguna (Hindi: फागुन phaagun or फाल्गुन phaalgun) is a month of the Hindu calendar. In India's national civil c...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - April 15: Encyclopedia - April 15
April 15 is the 105th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (106th in leap years). There are 260 days remaining. April 15 - Events. ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1780: Encyclopedia - 1780
1780 in topic: Arts Architecture - Literature - Music Other topics Canada - Mexico - Science Lists of leaders: Colonial governors - State...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1784: Encyclopedia - 1784
1784 in topic: Arts Architecture - Literature - Music Other topics Canada - Mexico - Science Lists of leaders: Colonial governors - State...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Julian Calendar: Encyclopedia Ii - Julian Calendar - Leap Years Error
Despite the new calendar being much simpler than the Roman calendar, the pontifices apparently misunderstood the algorithm. They added a ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1772: Encyclopedia - 1772
1772 in topic: Arts Architecture - Literature - Music Other topics Canada - Mexico - Science Lists of leaders: Colonial governors - State...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1764: Encyclopedia - 1764
1764 in topic: Arts Architecture - Literature - Music Other topics Canada - Mexico - Science Lists of leaders: Colonial governors - State...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1768: Encyclopedia - 1768
1768 in topic: Arts Architecture - Literature - Music Other topics Canada - Mexico - Science Lists of leaders: Colonial governors - State...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - October 17: Encyclopedia - October 17
October 17 is the 290th (in leap years the 291st) day of the year according to the Gregorian calendar. There are 75 days remaining. Octo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - January 3: Encyclopedia - January 3
January 3 is the 3rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. 362 days (363 during leap years) remain in the year after this day. Janu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1760: Encyclopedia - 1760
1760 in topic: Arts Architecture - Literature - Music Other topics Canada - Mexico - Science Lists of leaders: Colonial governors - State...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1796: Encyclopedia - 1796
1796 in topic: Arts Architecture - Literature - Music Other topics Canada - Mexico - Science Lists of leaders: Colonial governors - State...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Chaitra: Encyclopedia - Chaitra
Chaitra (Hindi: चैत cait or चैत्र caitr) is a month of the Hindu calendar. In India's national civil calendar, Chaitra is...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1876: Encyclopedia - 1876
1876 is a leap year starting on Saturday. Canada - Mexico - South Africa - U.S. Rail Transport - Science - Sports Births - Deaths 1876 -...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1 E8 S: Encyclopedia - 1 E8 S
To help compare orders of magnitude of different times this page lists times between 3.2 years and 32 years (108 seconds and 109 seconds)...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - November 8: Encyclopedia - November 8
November 8 is the 312th day of the year (313th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 53 days remaining. November 8 - Events. ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1884: Encyclopedia - 1884
1884 (MDCCCLXXXIV) is a leap year starting on Tuesday (click on link to calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on T...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - August 26: Encyclopedia - August 26
August 26 is the 238th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (239th in leap years). There are 127 days remaining. August 26 - Events...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1864: Encyclopedia - 1864
Canada - Mexico - South Africa - U.S. Rail Transport - Science - Sports Births - Deaths 1864 (MDCCCLXIV) was a leap year starting on Fri...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - April 25: Encyclopedia - April 25
April 25 is the 115th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (116th in leap years). There are 250 days remaining. April 25 - Events. ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1912: Encyclopedia - 1912
1912 (MCMXII) was a leap year starting on Monday in the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Tuesday in the 13-day-slower Julia...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - April 8: Encyclopedia - April 8
April 8 is the 98th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (99th in leap years). There are 267 days remaining in the year. April 8 - ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - June 6: Encyclopedia - June 6
June 6 is the 157th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (158th in leap years), with 208 days remaining. June 6 - Events. 1508 - ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1903: Encyclopedia - 1903
1903 (MCMIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). It also had the latest occurring solstices and equinoxes fo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1696: Encyclopedia - 1696
The year 1696 had the earliest equinoxes and solstices for 400 years in the Gregorian calendar, because this year is a leap year and the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 2020: Encyclopedia - 2020
2020 (MMXX) is a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. It corresponds to the years 5780-5781 in the Hebrew Calendar...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 2240: Encyclopedia - 2240
2240 is a leap year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). 2240 - Scheduled and expected events. 23 February - Annular solar e...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Nisan: Encyclopedia - Nisan
Nisan (נִיסָן, Standard Hebrew Nisan, Tiberian Hebrew Nîsān: from Akkadian nisānu, from Sumerian nisag "First fruits") is the fi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - August 25: Encyclopedia - August 25
August 25 is the 237th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (238th in leap years), with 128 days remaining. August 25 - Events. 1...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gregorian Calendar: Encyclopedia Ii - Gregorian Calendar - Number Of Leap Years Starting On A Given Day Of The Week
Because there are 97 leap years in every 400 in the Gregorian Calendar, there should, in each "cycle", be either 13 or 14 leap years star...   » 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 - Gregorian Calendar: Encyclopedia Ii - Gregorian Calendar - Numerical Facts
When leap years and common years are taken into account, there are a total of 14 possible Gregorian calendars. When different dates of Ea...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gregorian Calendar: Encyclopedia Ii - Gregorian Calendar - Months Of The Year
The Gregorian calendar's year is divided into 12 months: English speakers sometimes remember the number of days in each month by the use ...   » 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 - 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 - International Fixed Calendar: Encyclopedia Ii - International Fixed Calendar - Rules
The calendar year has 13 months each with 28 days plus an extra day at the end of the year not belonging to any month. Each year coincide...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gregorian Calendar: Encyclopedia Ii - Gregorian Calendar - Days Of The Week
January 1 of any year whose number is a multiple of 400 is a Saturday. From this you can work out the day of the week of any date. See al...   » 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 - Gregorian Calendar: Encyclopedia Ii - Gregorian Calendar - Confusion With British Vs. American Usage
Dates of events in Britain prior to 1752 are usually now shown in their original Old Style form, whereas dates of events in (then British...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Great Leap Forward: Encyclopedia Ii - Great Leap Forward - Outcome
The Great Leap Forward is now widely seen both within China and outside as a major economic disaster. As inflated statistics reached plan...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Julian Calendar: Encyclopedia Ii - Julian Calendar - Year Numbering
The dominant method that the Romans used to identify a year for dating purposes was to name it after the two consuls who took office in i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Julian Calendar: Encyclopedia Ii - Julian Calendar - Lengths Of The Months
According to the 13th century scholar Sacrobosco, the original scheme for the months in the Julian Calendar was very regular, alternately...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Julian Calendar: Encyclopedia Ii - Julian Calendar - From Roman To Julian
The ordinary year in the previous Roman calendar consisted of 12 months, for a total of 355 days. In addition, an intercalary month, the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Julian Calendar: Encyclopedia Ii - Julian Calendar - Naming Of The Months
Immediately after the Julian reform, the twelve months of the Roman calendar were named Ianuarius, Februarius, Martius, Aprilis, Maius, I...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Julian Calendar: Encyclopedia Ii - Julian Calendar - From Julian To Gregorian
The Julian calendar was in general use in Europe from the times of the Roman Empire until 1582, when Pope Gregory XIII promulgated the Gr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mardi Gras: Encyclopedia Ii - Mardi Gras - Dates
The date can vary from February 3 to March 9 in non-leap years or February 4 to March 9 in leap years. Like Lent, the date is dependent o...   » 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

Encyclopedia - Great Leap Forward: Encyclopedia Ii - Great Leap Forward - Historical Background
During the 1950s, the Chinese had carried out a program of land distribution coupled with industrialization under state ownership with gr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Great Leap Forward: Encyclopedia Ii - Great Leap Forward - The Great Leap Forward
The Great Leap Forward borrowed elements from the history of the USSR in a uniquely Chinese combination. Collectivization from the USSR's...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Wayne Corporation: Encyclopedia Ii - Wayne Corporation - The Thyssen-bornemisza Years 1975-1984
It seems that most of what one can learn about Indian Head after the Thyssen-Bornemisza acquisition is very limited. As a privately-owned...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Wayne Corporation: Encyclopedia Ii - Wayne Corporation - Wayne Corporation: Richmond Transportation Corporation 1985-1992
In late 1984, Richmond Transportation Corporation (RTC) was formed by a Long Beach, California-based industrialist, and several officers ...   » 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 - Wayne Corporation: Encyclopedia Ii - Wayne Corporation - Early History
After starting out in Union City, Indiana, all manufacturing was centralized at Richmond, Indiana, but Wayne bus bodies were assembled at...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Wayne Corporation: Encyclopedia Ii - Wayne Corporation - Divco-wayne Corporation 1957-1968
In 1957, Divco Corporation bought the Wayne Works, a school bus builder in Richmond, Indiana, and renamed itself, Divco-Wayne Corporation...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Wayne Corporation: Encyclopedia Ii - Wayne Corporation - Indian Head: 1968-1975
Divco-Wayne had formed a union and had expanded into a moderate sized-conglomerate, with all facilities basically within 500 miles of Way...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - New Year: Encyclopedia Ii - New Year - Historical Dates For The New Year
The ancient Roman calendar had only ten months and started the year on 1 March, which is still reflected in the names of some months whic...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Wayne Corporation: Encyclopedia Ii - Wayne Corporation - Wayne Corporation: An Indian Head Company
In 1968, Indian Head Inc. acquired Wayne Corp., which Indian Head history recorded as "maker of school buses, ambulances, hearses, profes...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lunisolar Calendar: Encyclopedia Ii - Lunisolar Calendar - Calculating A Leap Month
A rough idea of the frequency of the intercalary or leap month in all lunisolar calendars can be obtained by the following calculation, u...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ancient Roman Units Of Measurement: Encyclopedia Ii - Ancient Roman Units Of Measurement - Time
The Julian calendar was introduced in 45 BC replacing the earlier Roman calendar. In the Julian calendar as in the Gregorian calendar an ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Indian National Calendar: Encyclopedia Ii - Indian National Calendar - Calendar Structure
In leap years, Chaitra has 31 days and starts on March 21 instead. Like the Persian calendar, the months in the first half of the year al...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Year: Encyclopedia Ii - Year - Summary Of Various Kinds Of Year
An average Gregorian year is 365.2425 days = 52.1775 weeks, 8,765.82 hours = 525,949.2 minutes = 31,556,952 seconds (mean solar, not SI)....   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Indian National Calendar: Encyclopedia Ii - Indian National Calendar - Calendar Structure
In leap years, Chaitra has 31 days and starts on March 21 instead. The months in the first half of the year all have 31 days, to take int...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Epact: Encyclopedia Ii - Epact - Lunar Calendar
Epacts are used to find the date in the lunar calendar from the date in the common solar calendar. Epact - Solar and lunar years. A (so...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lunisolar Calendar: Encyclopedia Ii - Lunisolar Calendar - Determining Leap Months
To determine when an embolismic month needs to be inserted, some calendars rely on direct observations of the state of vegetation, while ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cultural Revolution: Encyclopedia Ii - Cultural Revolution - Background
Cultural Revolution - Great Leap Forward. Main Article: Great Leap Forward In 1957, after China's first Five-Year Plan, Mao Zedong call...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Birthday: Encyclopedia Ii - Birthday - Official/alternative Birthdays And Name Day
Some notables, particularly monarchs such as Queen Elizabeth II have "official birthdays" which do not match their actual birthday, but o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Birthday: Encyclopedia Ii - Birthday - Official/alternative Birthdays And Name Day
Some notables, particularly monarchs such as Queen Elizabeth II have "official birthdays" which do not match their actual birthday, but o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tropical Year: Encyclopedia Ii - Tropical Year - Approximations
Continued fractions of the decimal value for the vernal equinox year quoted above give successive approaches to the average interval betw...   » 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 - 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 - Shire Calendar: Encyclopedia Ii - Shire Calendar - Months Of The Year And Special Days
The Shire calendar's year was divided into 12 months of 30 days. Five additional days were added to create a 365-day year. The months fol...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Iranian Calendar: Encyclopedia Ii - Iranian Calendar - Calculating The Day Of The Week
Calculating the day of the week is easy. You need just need an anchor date to start with. One good day to choose is Sunday, 1 Farvardin 1...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Year Zero: Encyclopedia Ii - Year Zero - Astronomers
Astronomers include a year 0 immediately before year 1. The first use of an astronomical year 0 is traditionally attributed to Jacques Ca...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Coptic Calendar: Encyclopedia Ii - Coptic Calendar - The Coptic Year
The Coptic year is the extension of the ancient Egyptian civil year, retaining its subdivision into the three seasons, four months each. ...   » Read the article