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Table X.—Principal Days of the Hebrew Calendar.

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,	$\scriptstyle {\left\{{\begin{matrix}\ \\\ \end{matrix}}\right.}$	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.

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   ”

Name.	Christian Date of Commencement.
Sidonian era	Oct. 110 B.C.
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, &c., auctore Paulo Tittel (Göttingen, 1816); Formole analitiche pel

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1. If Saturday, substitute Sunday immediately following.
2. If Saturday, substitute Thursday immediately preceding.