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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.
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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