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British Calendar | Calendars Calendars exhibit Webexhibit Home Node view Years & months Various Calendars Our Week Timeline About Overview Astronomy Perpetual calendar Month of Moons Today's Moon History Definitions International Do it yourself A page from the "Calendars" exhibit... The text of: British Calendar Act of 1751 In the year 1752 the British Parliament and King George II corrected several problems with the then current Julian calendar. The correction was first adopted by Pope Gregory XIII in October of 1582. However, adoption of the Gregorian Calendar outside of Catholic countries was delayed as Martin Luther (the original) had nailed his Ninety-five Theses to the door of his church on October 31, 1517. This started the Protestant Reformation, which was still ringing strong enough in 1582 to make most Protestant countries resist "bowing" to any Papal decree. Only after the problems had been growing for about 200 additional years did Great Britain adopt the Gregorian Calendar. The law was passed in 1751 and implemented in 1752. Great Britain was actually an early-bird in the ... http://www.webexhibits.org/calendars/year-text-British.html · 39.3k |
Early Roman Calendar | Calendars Calendars exhibit Webexhibit Home Node view Years & months Various Calendars Our Week Timeline About Overview Chinese Christian Indian Islamic Jewish Others Ancient French Future Mayan Roman Perpetual A page from the "Calendars" exhibit... The Romans borrowed parts of their earliest known calendar from the Greeks. The calendar consisted of 10 months in a year of 304 days. The Romans seem to have ignored the remaining 61 days, which fell in the middle of winter. The 10 months were named Martius, Aprilis, Maius, Junius, Quintilis, Sextilis, September, October, November, and December. The last six names were taken from the words for five, six, seven, eight, nine, and ten. Romulus, the legendary first ruler of Rome, is supposed to have introduced this calendar in the 700s B.C.E. According to tradition, the Roman ruler Numa Pompilius added January and February to the calendar. This made the Roman year 355 days long. To make the calendar correspond approximately to the solar year, Numa also ordered the addition every other year of a month called Mercedinus. ... http://www.webexhibits.org/calendars/calendar-roman.html · 35.6k |
Roman Fasti | Calendars Calendars exhibit Webexhibit Home Node view Years & months Various Calendars Our Week Timeline About Overview Astronomy Perpetual calendar Month of Moons Today's Moon History Definitions International Do it yourself A page from the "Calendars" exhibit... Examples of: Roman Fasti Some 200 fragments of Roman calendars have been found so far, and they are collectively known as Fasti. There is a common style and format reflected in all of them, but there are also many differences, particularly regional differences. Some beautiful examples have been found in nearly complete condition with the original colors still visible. In the fasti below, notice that the Nones were lined up horizontally by squeezing in the first six days of some months into the space taken up by four in the others. This gave an orderly visual effect to the top part of the calendar, but was not applied to the Ides. Similarly squeezed are the names of the gods to whom particular days were sacred. The calendar represented here is for the months of Januarius, Februarius and Martius. It is from ... http://www.webexhibits.org/calendars/year-text-Fasti.html · 9.1k |
Full text - Daylight Saving Time - United Kingdom Law - The Summer Time Order 1997 About Daylight Saving Time. British Law http://www.webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/uk.html · 66.1k |
History Of Our Calendar | Calendars Calendars exhibit Webexhibit Home Node view Years & months Various Calendars Our Week Timeline About Overview Astronomy Perpetual calendar Month of Moons Today's Moon History Definitions International Do it yourself A page from the "Calendars" exhibit... Pope Gregory XIII. Portrait by Lavinia Fontana Pope Gregory XIII dedicated his papacy to implementing the recommendations of the Council of Trent. By the time he reformed the Julian calendar in 1582 (using the observations of Christopher Clavius and Johannes Kepler), it had drifted 10 days off course. To this day, most of the world uses his Gregorian calendar. Before today’s Gregorian calendar was adopted, the older Julian calendar was used. It was admirably close to the actual length of the year, as it turns out, but the Julian calendar was not so perfect that it didn’t slowly shift off track over the following centuries. But, hundreds of years later, monks were the only ones with any free time for scholarly pursuits – and they were discouraged from thinking about the matter of "secular time" for any reason ... http://www.webexhibits.org/calendars/year-history.html · 18.7k |
Nicholas Copernicus | Calendars Calendars exhibit Webexhibit Home Node view Years & months Various Calendars Our Week Timeline About Overview Astronomy Perpetual calendar Month of Moons Today's Moon History Definitions International Do it yourself A page from the "Calendars" exhibit... The text of: Nicholas Copernicus De Revolutionibus (On the Revolutions), 1543 C.E. Nicholas Copemicus (1473-1543) That Nicholas Copernicus delayed until near death to publish De revolutionibus has been taken as a sign that he was well aware of the possible furor his work might incite; certainly his preface to Pope Paul III anticipates many of the objections it raised. But he could hardly have anticipated that he would eventually become one of the most famous people of all time on the basis of a book that comparatively few have actually read (and fewer still understood) in the 450 years since it was first printed. Copernicus was bom into a well-to-do mercantile family in 1473, at Torun, Poland. After the death of his father, he was sponsored by his uncle, Bishop Watzenrode, who sent him first to the ... http://www.webexhibits.org/calendars/year-text-Copernicus.html · 130.0k |
The Christian Calendar | Calendars Calendars exhibit Webexhibit Home Node view Years & months Various Calendars Our Week Timeline About Overview Chinese Christian Indian Islamic Jewish Others Ancient French Future Mayan Roman Perpetual A page from the "Calendars" exhibit... The "Christian calendar" is the term traditionally used to designate the calendar commonly in use, although it originated in pre-Christian Rome. This calendar is used by the United States, and most countries in the world. This section presents historical information about the Christian calendar. For more current information about how our calendar works today, see the section on Our Year. The Christian calendar has years of 365 or 366 days. It is divided into 12 months that have no relationship to the motion of the moon. In parallel with this system, the concept of weeks groups the days in sets of 7. Two main versions of the Christian calendar have existed in recent times: The Julian calendar and the Gregorian calendar. The difference between them lies in the way they approximate the length of the tropical year and their ... http://www.webexhibits.org/calendars/calendar-christian.html · 27.8k |
Some Future Calendars | Calendars Calendars exhibit Webexhibit Home Node view Years & months Various Calendars Our Week Timeline About Overview Chinese Christian Indian Islamic Jewish Others Ancient French Future Mayan Roman Perpetual A page from the "Calendars" exhibit... Modern schemes for reform? Other planets Martian Coruscant (Star Wars) Modern schemes for reform? The current calendar is not without defects, and reforms are still being proposed. Astronomically, it really calls for no improvement, but the seven-day week and the different lengths of months are unsatisfactory to some. Clearly, if the calendar could have all festivals and all rest days fixed on the same dates every year, as in the original Julian calendar, this arrangement would be more convenient, and two general schemes have been put forward–the International Fixed Calendar and the World Calendar. The International Fixed Calendar is essentially a perpetual Gregorian calendar, in which the year is divided into 13 months, each of 28 days, with an additional day at the end. Present month names are retained, but a new ... http://www.webexhibits.org/calendars/calendar-future.html · 31.7k |
Some Other Calendars | Calendars Calendars exhibit Webexhibit Home Node view Years & months Various Calendars Our Week Timeline About Overview Chinese Christian Indian Islamic Jewish Others Ancient French Future Mayan Roman Perpetual A page from the "Calendars" exhibit... Ethiopian Persian (Iran) Balinese Baha'i Ethiopian The Ethiopian calendar is based on the Coptic calendar, although it differs with regard to the saint’s days and the time of observing them. The Coptic, or Egyptian, calendar is 7/8 years behind the Gregorian calendar. This discrepancy results from differences between the Ethiopian Orthodox Church and the Roman Catholic Church as to the date of the creation of the world. The Ethiopian calendar is based on the Egyptian. An Egyptian year has 13 months. The first 12 months have 30 days. The last month, Paguemain, is an intercalary month, which has 6 days on leap year and 5 on others. The year starts on 11 September in the Gregorian Calendar or on the 12th in (Gregorian) Leap Years. The Coptic Leap Year follows the same rules as the Gregorian so that the extra month ... http://www.webexhibits.org/calendars/calendar-other.html · 24.5k |
Our Week | Calendars Calendars exhibit Webexhibit Home Node view Years & months Various Calendars Our Week Timeline About Our Week Connotations A page from the "Calendars" exhibit... Our seven day week has been used for millennia by the Christian, Jewish, Islamic, Persian and Chinese calendars, yet its origins are most uncertain. What Is the Origin of the 7-Day Week? What Do the Names of the Days of the Week Mean? What is the System behind the Planetary Day Names? Has the 7-Day Week Cycle Ever Been Interrupted? Which Day is the Day of Rest? What Is the First Day of the Week? What Is the Week Number? How can I calculate the week number? Do Weeks of Different Lengths Exist? What day was a certain date? Contemporary Mask. Mexico. Since time immemorial, the sun and the moon have inspired artists. Incan field workers would chant, "The sun rains gold, the moon rains silver." In art, the warm, golden sun is often depicted as male, while the cool, silver moon is portrayed as female. What Is the Origin of the 7-Day Week? Digging into the history of the 7-day week is a very complicated ... http://www.webexhibits.org/calendars/week.html · 20.1k |
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