Abbildungen der Seite
PDF
EPUB
[blocks in formation]

SEP 17 43

THE

AMERICAN

ALMANAC,

FOR THE YEAR

1855,

Being the latter part of the 79th, and the beginning of the 80th year of the Independence of the United States of America;

[ocr errors][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small]

the 6568th year of the Julian Period;

the latter part of the 5615th, and the beginning of the 5616th year since the creation of the world, according to the Jews; the 2608th year (according to Varro) since the foundation of Rome;

the 2602d year since the era of Nabonassar, which has been as

signed to Wednesday, the 26th of February, of the 3967th
year of the Julian Period, which corresponds, according to
the chronologists, to the 747th, and, according to the astron-
omers, to the 746th year before the birth of Christ;

the 2631st year of the Olympiads, or the third year of the 658th
Olympiad, beginning in July, 1853, if we fix the era of the
Olympiads at 775 years before Christ, or at or about the
beginning of July of the year 3938 of the Julian Period;
the latter part of the 1271st and the beginning of the 1272d
year (of twelve lunations) since the Hegira, or flight of Ma-
homet, which, as is generally supposed, took place on the
16th of July, in the year 622 of the Christian era.

[blocks in formation]

6 Conjunction, or having the same Longitude or Right Ascension. Quadrature, or differing 90° in

8 Opposition, or differing 180° in

[ocr errors]
[ocr errors]

The ascending, U the descending node.

[ocr errors]

66

[ocr errors]
[ocr errors]

The sign + is prefixed to the latitude, or declination, of the Sun, or other heavenly body, when north, and the sign when south; but the former prefixed to the hourly motion of the Moon in latitude indicates that she is approaching, and the latter that she is receding from, the north pole of the ecliptic..

The letters M. A., m. a., denote Morning and Afternoon.

CHRONOLOGICAL CYCLES.

Dominical Letter,

Epact,

G | Solar Cycle,
12 Roman Indiction, .

16

13

Lunar Cycle, or Golden Number, 13 Julian Period,

6568

[ocr errors]
[merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][ocr errors][ocr errors][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][ocr errors][ocr errors][ocr errors][ocr errors][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][ocr errors][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small]
[blocks in formation]

[The anniversaries marked with an asterisk (*) are to be strictly observed.]

[merged small][merged small][ocr errors][merged small][merged small][ocr errors][merged small][merged small][merged small][ocr errors][merged small][merged small][merged small][ocr errors][merged small][ocr errors][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][ocr errors][merged small][merged small]
[blocks in formation]

16th, *Second Feast, or Morrow of the Passover, Apr. 4, "

[blocks in formation]

Apr. 9, "

66

66 22d, *End of the Passover,.

Apr. 10, "

"Ijar begins,

"18th, Lag Beomer,

Apr. 19, "

66

[ocr errors]

Sivan begins,

[merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][ocr errors]
[ocr errors][ocr errors]
[merged small][ocr errors]

66

[ocr errors]

May 6, "

May 18, "

May 23, "

[ocr errors]

May 24,"

Thammuz begins,

[ocr errors]

66 17th, Fast for the taking of the Temple,. July 3, "

[ocr errors]

66 9th, Fast for the burning of the Temple,

66 "Elul begins,

[ocr errors]
[merged small][ocr errors][merged small][ocr errors][ocr errors][merged small]
[merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][ocr errors][merged small][ocr errors]

"10th, *Fast of the Reconciliation or Atonement,
"15th, Feast of the Huts or Tabernacles,

[merged small][ocr errors]
« ZurückWeiter »