Table XII

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

"

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.)