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Name. | Christian Date of | ||||
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 | " | |
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 | " | |
Sidonian era | Oct. | 110 | " | ||
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, etc., auctore Paulo Tittel (Gottingen, 1816); Formole analitiche pel calcolo delta Pasgua, e correzione di quello di Gauss, con critiche osservazioni sù quanta ha scritto del calendario il Delambri, di Lodovico Ciccolini (Rome, 1817); E.H. Lindo, Jewish Calendar for Sixty-four Years (1838); W.S.B. Woolhouse, Measures, Weights, and Moneys of all Nations (1869).
(T. G.; W. S. B. W.)
 
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