Calendars
Calendars Links
- Today's Date Today's date from the Gregorian calendar that we use into the calendar dates of the Mayan, French, Islamic, Hebrew, Julian, Ethiopic, Coptic, Chinese, Julian, and Discordian calendars.
- Measuring Years How we measure our year, and learn about different kinds of years, like cosmic and sidereal. Also find out what an olympiad or a score is.
- Calculate the Day of the Week Shows a method to calculate the day of the week for any past or future date. Computer based methods are also shown.
- Hindu Calendar This is sometimes called the Indian National Calendar and is based on both lunar and solar years.
- The Maya Calendar Conventional and unconventional explanations of the Mayan calendar, from the Canadian Museum of Civilization.
- Calendars Through the Ages Discusses currently used and unused calendars such as Chinese, Christian, Indian, Islamic, Jewish, Ethiopian, Balinese, Bahai, the French, Mayan, Roman, and some modern schemes for calendar reform. Includes timelines and all about how our week came into being.
- Calendars: Counting the Days World Book Encyclopedia takes a look at calendars, including the history of calendars, and educational activities that relate to calendars.
- Thirty Days Hath September An introduction to calendars, including a rhyme that helps us remember month lengths. Sections follow that are about months and days, years, how calendars work, and about ancient calendars that didn't work so well.
- Calendar for Year 2001 All 12 months, plus lunar phases and some holidays noted.
- Calendopaedia All about calendars, different kinds, astronomical time, and how years are counted.
- Indian Moons A list of many American Indian tribe's names for months, days, and other calendar related information.
- Gregorian Solar Chinese Lunar Calendar Conversion Enter a date and convert it to the Chinese calendar.
- Religious Calendars and Holy Days Explanations of the Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, Sikh, Bahai, and Wiccan calendars and then a list of holidays associated with these calendars.
- Virtual Perpetual Calendars Lets you know what any calendar looks like for the 20th and 21st centuries. Also includes holidays, leap years, which years a particular day of the week always falls on, and methods of calculation.
- The Jewish Calendar Based on both solar and lunar years.
- The Ancient Calendar The ancient calendar, its origin, problems, and development, plus a look at the names of days of the week
- Leap Years The Royal Observatory at Greenwich explains why we have leap years.
- The Chinese Calendar Find out if this is the year of the dragon, the snake, the horse, or another animal according to the Chinese lunar calendar.
- Years How a year is figured and who invented our calendar.
- Ethiopian Calendar Discusses which calendar Ethiopia uses and gives a list of the month's names and public holidays in Ethiopia.
- The Islamic, Hijri, Calendar Based on the lunar year of 354 days.
- The Classic Maya Calendar and Day Numbering System Learn about the calendar system used in the ancient world of the Maya.
- Calculate Hebrew Date Figure out what the Hebrew date is for any day of the Gregorian calendar, the one commonly used in the western world.
- Online Catholic Calendar Gives the dates, month by month, of all the traditional feast and holy days for the Roman Catholic Church.
- What a Calendar Is World Book Encyclopedia takes a look at calendars, including the history of calendars, calendars in use today, ancient calendars, and what a new calendar might look like.
- Phase of the Moon Calendar showing the phase of the moon for this month or a month/year of your choice.
- History of the Calendar How different parts of the world made different kinds of clocks based on where they lived and what kind of weather they had to predict.
- Time and Date Calendar: This site includes lots of information that is time and date related, such as yearly and monthly calendars, counters, countdown, and the world clock which shows current time in cities all over the world.
- Several Calendars Learn some basic information about the Egyptian, Roman, Gregorian, Mayan, Islamic, Jewish, and Julian calendars. Also learn how to calculate Easter.
- Algebra - Fun with Calendars Perform some mental "magic" tricks based on math and the calendar.
- Counting: Calendars and Cords A look at the methods ancient civilizations used to keep track of time.
- Calendar, a History A history of the western calendar, including the Gregorian and Julian and Roman Calendars, and how the days of the week and months got their names, and a history of time.
- The Current Calendar System Learn about our current calendar, daylight saving time, old clocks, new and atomic clocks, and when the millennium begins.
- Regional Islamic Calendar The months of the Islamic calendar and when they occur in the Americas, Europe-Africa-Asia, and Asia-Pacific.
- Calendar Studies Articles on the Gregorian and Julian calendars, the ISO date format, the Julian day number system, the Maya calendar, the Goddess lunar calendar, the Liberalia Triday Calendar and C functions for date conversion; plus software for calendrical conversion.
- Leap Years and Our Calendar Why do we need leap years and how can we tell which years are leap years?
- Leap Year The Forest Preserve District of Cook County Illinois explains leap year.
- Zoroastrian Religious Calendar Three versions of the Zoroastrian calendar from the most ancient to more modern calendars.
- Aztec Calendar Shows you the current date according to the sacred Aztec calendar. Gives a reading of the significance of the day and the relevant gods.
- Cosmic Calendar Imagine if the history of the universe, all 13 billion years of it, were put into just one year. What would that calendar look like? Carl Sagan, the famous astronomer, made this one.
- The French Revolutionary Calendar Convert any date since 1792 to the Jacobin calendar, a calendar that came out of the French Revolution but was ultimately not permanently adopted.
- 2001 Calendar Shows each month with the days of the weeks plus when some holidays are.
- What are the Origins of the Names of the Days of the Week? A brief look at the legends and history behind each day's name.
- A Question of Time Two variations of the Celtic calendar year and how it relates to our present-day Gregorian calendar.
- The Moon's Phase Online calculator that lets you see which phase the moon is in for any date in any year.
- Julian Day Calendar A system of astronomical dating that was devised in 1582.
- The Origin of Leap Year Julius Caesar started it, and here is how it evolved.
- Eleven Days That Never Were The curious history of the Gregorian calendar, the one we use today.
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