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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.Packer, George Nichols

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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

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  Saturn,  |Jupiter, |Mars,   |Sun,   |Venus, |Mercury,  |Moon,
  Saturday.|Thursday.|Tuesday.|Sunday.|Friday.|Wednesday.|Monday.
  ---------+---------+--------+-------+-------+----------+-------
     1     |   2     |   3    |   4   |   5   |    6     |   7
     8     |   9     |  10    |  11   |  12   |   13     |  14
    15     |  16     |  17    |  18   |  19   |   20     |  21
    22     |  23     |  24    |   1   |   2   |    3     |   4
     5     |   6     |   7    |   8   |   9   |   10     |  11
    12     |  13     |  14    |  15   |  16   |   17     |  18
    19     |  20     |  21    |  22   |  23   |   24     |   1
     2     |   3     |   4    |   5   |   6   |    7     |   8
     9     |  10     |  11    |  12   |  13   |   14     |  15
    16     |  17     |  18    |  19   |  20   |   21     |  22
    23     |  24     |   1    |   2   |   3   |    4     |   5
     6     |   7     |   8    |   9   |  10   |   11     |  12
    13     |  14     |  15    |  16   |  17   |   18     |  19
    20     |  21     |  22    |  23   |  24   |    1     |   2
     3     |   4     |   5    |   6   |   7   |    8     |   9
    10     |  11     |  12    |  13   |  14   |   15     |  16
    17     |  18     |  19    |  20   |  21   |   22     |  23
    24     |   1     |   2    |   3   |   4   |    5     |   6
     7     |   8     |   9    |  10   |  11   |   12     |  13
    14     |  15     |  16    |  17   |  18   |   19     |  20
    21     |  22     |  23    |  24   |   1   |    2     |   3
     4     |   5     |   6    |   7   |   8   |    9     |  10
    11     |  12     |  13    |  14   |  15   |   16     |  17
    18     |  19     |  20    |  21   |  22   |   23     |  24
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CHAPTER III.

HISTORY OF THE REFORMATION OF THE CALENDAR BY JULIUS CAESAR.


In order to put an end to the disorders arising from the negligence or
ignorance of the pontiffs, Julius Caesar, 46 B. C., abolished the use of
the lunar year and the intercalary month, and regulated the civil year
entirely by the Sun. With the advice and assistance of the astronomers,
especially Sosigenes of Alexandria, he fixed the mean length of the year
at 365-1/4 days, and decided that there should be three consecutive years
of 365 days, and a fourth of 366.

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