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(The Numbers Refer to the Sections.)

Time, relative as used by Argyle 32
Time of legal memory in English laws 71
Two hundred and eighty-one days, Year of 92
Uncials, Year of hundreds in earliest 125
U.S.A., Proclamation dates in 67
U.S.A. calendars, Remarks regarding 67
Usher's methods of chronological progress 36
Usurper, era of the. Meaning of 79
Vague year of the Egyptians explained 11
Varro accounts for the origin of the Kalends 20
Vatican coinage—how it was dated 25
Vendémiaire the month in the Revolutionists' calendar 106
Vernal Equinox and the Quarto-Decimans 21
Vertumunus, Festival of—change in season 18
VI., Year VI. explained—French mode 106
Victoria, Era of—meaning of that phrase 95
Vikramaditya, Era of—an Indian epoch 98
Vintage Month, What was 106
Voltaire's opinion of Russian era 64
Wall, China's great—in which dynasty 10
Water-marks as guides to dates 127
Week—did it prevail in Persia 15
Week of five days—where found 15
Weeks and days—meaning of terms 132
William the Conqueror—results on history if Conquest wrongly dated 5
Windy Month—a French phrase 106
Writings, first in Scotland, Date of 63
Year, Common 128
Year, Fiscal, in India 102
Year, Great, of Josephus, Meaning of 49
Year, intercalculated amongst Jews, Method of 58
Year, Meaning of different people's 3
Year of God as used in Scots' Acts, etc. 87
Year of Independence in U.S.A. 67
Year of Liberty in France 105
Year of Light, Mason's use of 69
Year of our Lord first used in France 68
Year, Short—how it occurred 92
Yesdegera era began in India 70
Xanthicus, The opening, of Macedonia 41
Zulus, How springtime calculated by 8