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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.
Kislev 25, Dedication of the Temple.
Tebet 10, Fast, Siege of Jerusalem.
Adar 13,[2] Fast of Esther, In embolismic
 ” 14, Purim, years. Veadar.
Nisan 15, 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.
Rajab 15, Day of Victory.
 ” 20, Exaltation of Mahomet.
Shaaban 15, Borak’s Night.
Shawall 1,2,3, Kutshuk Bairam.
Dulheggia 10, Qurban Bairam.

Table XII.—Epochs, Eras, and Periods.

Name. Christian Date of
Commencement.
Grecian Mundane era 1 Sep. 5598 B.C.
Civil era of Constantinople 1 Sep. 5508   ”   
Alexandrian era 29 Aug. 5502   ”   
Ecclesiastical era of Antioch 1 Sep. 5492   ”   
Julian Period 1 Jan. 4713   ”   
Mundane era Oct. 4008   ”   
Jewish Mundane era Oct. 3761   ”   
Era of Abraham 1 Oct. 2015   ”   
Era of the Olympiads 1 July 776   ”   
Roman era 24 April 753   ”   
Era of Nabonassar 26 Feb. 747   ”   
Metonic Cycle 15 July 432   ”   
Grecian or Syro-Macedonian era 1 Sep. 312   ”   
Tyrian era 19 Oct. 125   ”   
Name. Christian Date of
Commencement.
Sidonian era Oct. 110 B.C.
Caesarean era of Antioch 1 Sep. 48   ”   
Julian year 1 Jan. 45   ”   
Spanish era 1 Jan. 38   ”   
Actian era 1 Jan. 30   ”   
Augustan era 14 Feb. 27   ”   
Vulgar Christian era 1 Jan. 1 A.D.
Destruction of Jerusalem 1 Sep. 69   ”   
Era of Maccabees 24 Nov. 166   ”   
Era of Diocletian 17 Sep. 284   ”   
Era of Ascension 12 Nov. 295   ”   
Era of the Armenians 7 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. 1.0 1.1 1.2 If Saturday, substitute Sunday immediately following.
  2. If Saturday, substitute Thursday immediately preceding.