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Who is responsible for the oldest known calendar?
What is the oldest known calendar? Where exactly was it developed? Who was responsible for its creation?
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How were years numbered on the Republican Calendar?
The French Republican Calendar was created after the revolution to remove all religious references from the calendar, but how were years numbered on it? The Gregorian Calendar (which was used before ...
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in what form did William the Conqueror write the date of his own coronation?
This is a question about the English legal calendar as viewed by people living at the time, not as historians recorded it later.
New year shifts to 1-January
To the best of my understanding, the ...
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What was the Julian Calendar aligned to?
I understand that the Julian Calendar was introduced to align the length of the calendar to the tropical year, i.e. make the average year 365.25 days long. However, what I'm still trying to figure out ...
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What is the earliest reliably dated event exact to the year?
How far does reliable counting of the years reach into the past:
with the help of dating methods?
using only primary sources?
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Why did the start of the Roman consular year move?
Thus quoth wikipedia:
The first day of the consular term changed several times during Roman
history. It became 1 January in 153 BC.
Question is: why? (And what is the source, since wiki is ...
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Mayan calendar coinciding with winter solstice
It appears that all anyone has been talking about is the end of the world, misinterpretations aside (at least I hope so) my understanding that this is simply the end of an age of the Mayan calendar.
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Is this absolute timeline correct? [closed]
I always thought it put things into perspective if, instead of the Gregorian Calendar, we had a kind of "absolute" timeline, going all the way back to the big bang, as well as we can define it as of ...
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What holidays would be on a European-centric calendar from the 11th - 13th Centuries?
I've often come across readings that mentioned there were numerous holidays in calendars in use within the Christian Churches or Church controlled lands, with work stopping on worship days, feast days ...
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Which days in the Mayan calendar were most auspicious for performing sacrifices?
In Classic Mayan civilization, human sacrifices were performed. I've read that there were days that were more and less auspicious for sacrifices, but I haven't been able to find out which days those ...
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What was the motivation for the Gregorian Calendar?
The Gregorian Calendar eventually replaced the Roman calendar at some point, I know this was something to do with the days not being quite accurate so specific days (I think equinox and solstice) were ...
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In the French Republican calendar: were Quintidis holidays?
I did some research on the French Republican calendar and found some contradictory information on weekly (or decadian?) holidays.
Wikipedia (and most other articles I found) mention:
The ...
