The Book of Calendars, Conversion Tables from 60 Ancient and Modern Calendars to the Julian and Gregorian Calendars

It is not easy to discover how ancient peoples told time, and it is extremely difficult to translate one calendar date to another. Parise provides tables that convert dates from sixty calendars, ancient and modern, to the Julian and Gregorian Calendars. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction BABYLONIAN CALENDAR ERA OF NABONASSER MACEDONIAN CALENDAR SELEUCID CALENDAR AND ERA OF ANTIOCH SELEUCID CALENDAR SYRO-MACEDONIAN (GREEK) ERA OF ANTIOCH (GREEK) ERA OF ANTIOCH (SYRIAN) THE OLYMPIAD ERA OLYMPIC ERA THE ERA OF THE ARMENIANS ERA OF THE ARMENIANS THE ISLAMIC CALENDAR ISLAMIC CALENDAR FASLI (SOOR SAN) SOOR SAN CALENDAR ZOROASTRIAN CALENDAR ZOROASTERIAN CALENDAR YEZDEZRED AND JELALI CALENDARS YEZDEZRED CALENDAR JELALI CALENDAR AFRICA EGYPT COPTIC CALENDAR ETHIOPIAN CALENDAR MODERN NEAR EAST IRAN IRANIAN SOLAR HEGIRA AFGHANISTAN INDIA INDIAN CALENDARS SOUTHEAST ASIA SOUTHEAST ASIA FAR EAST THE CHINESE CALENDAR CHINESE AND JAPANESE CALENDARS TIBET CENTRAL AMERICA WESTERN CALENDARS EARLY NORTHERN EUROPEAN CALENDARS JULIAN AND GREGORIAN CALENDARS JULIAN AND GREGORIAN CALENDAR CONVERSIONS CHRISTIAN ECCLESIASTICAL CALENDAR THE ECCLESIASTICAL CALENDAR THE FRENCH REVOLUTIONARY CALENDAR SOVIET CALENDAR NEW YEAR'S DAY Index "Conversion tables into the Julian and Gregorian calendars from the following calendars: Afghanistan, Akbar, Arakanse, Armenian, Babylonian, Burmese, Central American, Chinese, Coptic, Early North European, Egyptian, Era of Antioch ..., Soviet, Tibetan, Zoroastrian. Also includes: Easter dates, calendar of Saints, New Year's day" (Rückseite des hinteren Buchdeckels)

The book provides easy-to-use tables that translate the calendars of over sixty civilizations into the Julian and Gregorian calendars. An indispensable tool for scholars.

Conversion Tables For Ancient, African, Modern Near Eastern, Indian, Southeast Asian, Far Eastern, Central American, And Western Calendars. Frank Parise, Editor. Includes Index.