Timeline for How can I check/get a BCE calendar for a particular year?
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| Aug 15, 2023 at 21:52 | history | edited | MCW♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 31, 2023 at 14:14 | answer | added | Johannes | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jul 26, 2023 at 13:36 | answer | added | TorstenS | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jul 26, 2023 at 1:17 | comment | added | cmw | @PieterGeerkens Yes, any calendar is a human invention, I agree. My point wasn't to argue, but to say that pinpointing to a specific day is less artificial, since the day/night grouping is based on natural reactions. That said, it gets trickier when you get into hours/minutes/seconds etc (which are entirely a product of human invention). | |
| Jul 26, 2023 at 1:04 | comment | added | Pieter Geerkens | @cmw: Yes, "construct" is the key word there. But that's the whole crux of the question: just how to perform such a construction, and with what justification? | |
| Jul 25, 2023 at 23:12 | answer | added | dan04 | timeline score: 5 | |
| Jul 25, 2023 at 21:05 | comment | added | cmw | @PieterGeerkens Technically, you could construct a calendar based purely on days before present. But you're looking at 1.6 million dates if you start from recorded history (conservatively), so it's not easy to work with. | |
| Jul 25, 2023 at 4:21 | comment | added | Pieter Geerkens | @DamionKeeling: I'd guess that only applies to Gentiles; since the Jewish people have celebrated every seventh day as the Sabbath since long before the 4th century. Again, it boils down to "Which calendar?" OP seems to regard dates and calendars as artifacts of nature, when they are in fact always man-made. | |
| Jul 25, 2023 at 4:00 | comment | added | Damion Keeling | I don't think this is possible. Roman weeks originally had eight days and didn't get seven until the 4th century. Seven day weeks such as planetary weeks were used but the week as a system of time was not relevant for people until codified in the 4th century. | |
| Jul 25, 2023 at 2:56 | comment | added | Mark Johnson | 1 BC being 753 Ab urbe condita (AUC), 1496 (2349 AUC), 1580 (2333 AUC), 1796 (2549 AUC), 1904 (2657 AUC): all start on Friday and are leap years. | |
| Jul 25, 2023 at 1:53 | comment | added | Gerard Ashton | You can't find out what day of the week Caesar was assassinated because the records of how the Julian calendar was actually observed in Rome are incomplete. So we know he died on 15 March 44 BC as it was called in Rome back then, but we don't know how many calendar days it is from, for example, the death of Caesar to 24 July 2023 Gregorian Calendar. | |
| Jul 24, 2023 at 19:26 | comment | added | Guest | I might have a sort of long-form solution: using timeanddate.com [timeanddate.com/calendar/repeating.html], I'd need to find an appropriately numbered leap year which starts on Friday, which would be 1 BCE, and check the calendar for the year 43 years before it (again per the Caesar example). Something quicker, less involved is still quite welcome. | |
| Jul 24, 2023 at 19:16 | comment | added | Guest | Edited to note current/Gregorian calendar, and preference for free site or program (thanks, tho, Steve). | |
| Jul 24, 2023 at 19:15 | history | edited | Guest | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 24, 2023 at 19:04 | comment | added | Steve Bird | This webpage seems to have a number of calendar converters, if you're willing to pay for one. | |
| Jul 24, 2023 at 18:57 | comment | added | Steve Bird | Which calendar would seem to be an obvious question? | |
| Jul 24, 2023 at 18:54 | history | edited | Guest | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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