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Our Calendar: The Julian calendar and its errors. How corrected by the Gregorian. Rules for finding the dominical letter, and the day of the week of any event from the days of Julius Caesar 46 B.C. to the year of our Lord four thousand; a new and easy method of fixing the date of Easter. Hebrew calendar; showing the correspondence in the date of events recorded in the Bible with our present Gregorian calendar. Illustrated by valuable tables and charts. — John Shaqi

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Our Calendar: The Julian calendar and its errors. How corrected by the Gregorian. Rules for finding the dominical letter, and the day of the week of any event from the days of Julius Caesar 46 B.C. to the year of our Lord four thousand; a new and easy method of fixing the date of Easter. Hebrew calendar; showing the correspondence in the date of events recorded in the Bible with our present Gregorian calendar. Illustrated by valuable tables and charts.

Name: Our Calendar: The Julian calendar and its errors. How corrected by the Gregorian. Rules for finding the dominical letter, and the day of the week of any event from the days of Julius Caesar 46 B.C. to the year of our Lord four thousand; a new and easy method of fixing the date of Easter. Hebrew calendar; showing the correspondence in the date of events recorded in the Bible with our present Gregorian calendar. Illustrated by valuable tables and charts.
Author: Packer, George Nichols

Packer, George Nichols

Calendar; Jewish calendar

April 30th, 1789, Thursday,  George Washington.
  March 4th,  1793, Monday,      "        "
    "    "    1797, Saturday,  John Adams
    "    "    1801, Wednesday, Thomas Jefferson.
    "    "    1805, Monday,       "       "
    "    "    1809, Saturday,  James Madison.
    "    "    1813, Thursday,    "      "
    "    "    1817, Tuesday,   James Monroe.
    "    "    1821, Sunday,      "     "
    "    "    1825, Friday,    John Q. Adams.
    "    "    1829, Wednesday, Andrew Jackson.
    "    "    1833, Monday,      "       "
    "    "    1837, Saturday,  Martin Van Buren.
    "    "    1841, Thursday,  Wm. H. Harrison.
    "    "    1845, Tuesday,   James K. Polk.
    "    "    1849, Sunday,    Zachary Taylor.
    "    "    1853, Friday,    Franklin Pierce.
    "    "    1857, Wednesday, James Buchanan.
    "    "    1861, Monday,    Abraham Lincoln.
    "    "    1865, Saturday,     "       "
    "    "    1869, Thursday,  Ulysses S. Grant.
    "    "    1873, Tuesday,      "         "
    "    "    1877, Sunday,    Rutherford B. Hays.
    "    "    1881, Friday,    James A. Garfield.
    "    "    1885, Wednesday, Grover Cleveland.
    "    "    1889, Monday,    Benjamin Harrison.
    "    "    1893, Saturday,  Grover Cleveland.
    "    "    1897, Thursday,
    "    "    1901, Monday,
    "    "    1905, Saturday,
    "    "    1909, Thursday,
    "    "    1913, Tuesday,
    "    "    1917, Sunday,
    "    "    1921, Friday,
    "    "    1925, Wednesday,
    "    "    1929, Monday,
    "    "    1933, Saturday,
    "    "    1937, Thursday,
    "    "    1941, Tuesday,
    "    "    1945, Sunday,
    "    "    1949, Friday,
    "    "    1953, Wednesday,
    "    "    1957, Monday,
    "    "    1961, Saturday,
    "    "    1965, Thursday,
    "    "    1969, Tuesday,
    "    "    1973, Sunday,
    "    "    1977, Friday,
    "    "    1981, Wednesday,
    "    "    1985, Monday,
    "    "    1989, Saturday,
    "    "    1993, Thursday.

Any one understanding what has been said in a preceding chapter concerning
the dominical letter, can very easily make out such a table without going
through the process of making calculations for every year. As every
succeeding year, or any day of the year, commences one day later in the
week than the year preceding, and two days later in leap-year, which makes
five days every four years, and as the Presidential term is four years, so
every inaugural occurs five days later in the week than it did in the
preceding term.

Now, as counting forward five days is equivalent to counting back two, it
will be much more convenient to count back two days every term. There is
one exception, however, to this rule; the year which completes the century
is reckoned as a common year (that is, three centuries out of four),
consequently we count forward only four days or back three.

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