Events of the distant past can be properly compared with each other and organized in a single world history only if it was possible to accurately determine when one or the other of them took p...

Gold number Date of incidence in March Age of the Moon as of March 22( epakta) Moon Circle Date of spring full moon Correct letter ...

Dating for Easter .As noted by the outstanding specialist in chronology, Professor V. Bolotov( 1854-1900), the knowledge of Paskhalya is especially important in relation to the Middle Ages, "when t...

The 60-year old account system, although with some changes, spread from China to neighboring countries - Mongolia, Vietnam, Korea, Japan. In particular, the Mongols used the colors instead of the...

Today, all the peoples of the world enjoy the solar calendar, almost inherited from the ancient Romans. But if in its present form this calendar almost perfectly corresponds to the annual movemen...

Looking in the astronomical calendar, we find in it exhaustive information about the position of the planets in the sky on this or another day, about the upcoming solar and lunar eclipses, abo...

Number Amendment Millennium Amendment centuries, decades and years over the centuries over the decades over the y...

Parents sometimes say: "It's good to talk about the ideal school, which makes learning interesting and finds the most suitable activity for every child. But the school where my child goes is...

Apparently, due to the fact that when writing numbers with Roman numerals it is very easy to make a mistake, Western European historians and calculators( "komputists") have developed a whole "set...

"Indication, which is an indication, is a Latin saying, from the Caesars of Rome, for the sake of guilt, invented: in the beginning of the universal dominion, the month of Septemvria, the firs...

Today our calendar from the astronomical point of view is accurate enough and, in essence, does not require any changes. And yet, he has been talking about reform for decades. At the same time, t...

The lunar-solar calendars were already used in ancient times by the peoples of China and India. People who settled near the shores of the great rivers of the Yellow River, the Indus and the Gange...

"The units of time are repeated again and again and always the same: one day is like the other. Only events - birth and death, good or bad harvest - allocate units of time, making them unequal in...

Radio, telegraph and television at the speed of light today inform the whole world about all events taking place in individual countries, in cities and villages, in distant polar expeditions and ...

From the history of women's education in Russia in the XIX century The history of women's education is one of the most striking, but, unfortunately, little studied pages in the history of Russ...

The origin of the seven-day week. Artificial units of time, consisting of several( three, five, seven, etc.) days, are found in many ancient peoples. In particular, the ancient Romans and the Etr...

When considering the theory of the lunar calendar, the duration of the synodic month with a reasonable degree of accuracy can be taken as 29.53059 days. It is obvious that the corresponding ca...

The solar calendar is based on the duration of the tropical year - 365.24220 days. It immediately shows that the calendar year can contain either 365 or 366 days. The theory should indicate the o...