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It’s just another Wednesday. The calendar’s full of ’em.
Jeff in Rear Window (1954)
A fascinating tour of ancientpast methods of marking time, from clocks to calendars.
Billed as the Internet’s first and foremost resource for the study of Asian astrology. Includes calendar coverters for Chinese, Tibetian, and Vietnamese calendars. Very interesting!
An overview of the Christian, Hebrew, and Islamic calendars in common use. It will provide a historical background for the Christian calendar, plus an overview of the French Revolutionary calendar and the Maya calendar.
Offering a list of links to other calendar pages, CalendarLand is a comprehensive resource of general, event, celestial, interactive, and cultural and religious calendars. The site also offers links to calendar indexes and directories, calendar information and resources, and calendar software.
This site reprints an essay by L. E. Doggett about the history of various calendars, including the Gregorian, the Julian, the Hebrew, the Islamic, the Indian, and the Chinese. Additionally, the essay explains the astronomical bases of calendars, calendar reform movements, and historical eras and chronologies. This site is an important first step for anyone trying to understand where calendars originate and how they are created.
A Web page that provides information about the email mailing list devoted to discussion of the social, historical and philosophical dimensions of Calendars and Time Reckoning.
Look up the liturgical year, find out when the next holy day of obligation is coming up, or just check out the suggested Bible readings for the day at this informative Catholic-run site.
By using this simple interface, you can click any year in the Twentieth Century and be given a chart that tells you, for example, that 1996 was the Year of the Rat and that 1997 was the Year of the Ox. The backgrounds at this site are beautiful, but might be slow to download.
Lists today’s date in a variety of calendar formats, including French, Mayan, Islamic, Hebrew, Astronomical, Julian, and ISO.
The Ecclesiastical Calendar site offers Christian calendars for any year you specify. The calendar calculates when Easter and its attendant Christian holidays (Ash Wednesday, Good Friday, and others) will fall in a particular year and also when other feast days in the Roman Catholic tradition will occur. The Web author explains the various algorithms used to calculate Easter’s date, discusses when certain cultures adopted the Western method for determining the Easter date, and even posits that current formulas for determining the Easter date might not be valid in the far future.
The European Southern Observatory’s adaptation of John Thorstensen (of Dartmouth College) skycalc program. It produces a nighttime calendar of phenomena for a single site including sun rise and set times, astronomical twilights, both in civil time and LST, and moon rise and set times and phase for each night in the month.
Converts Gregorian dates into the Islamic calendar.
The Old Farmer’s Almanac offers herewith the dates and locations of _solar and lunar eclipses_for the year, as well as the days of the full moon for seven years.
This site translates today’s Gregorian date into the Hebrew calendar (for example, 20 April 1996 is 1 Ayar 5756) and offers a list of upcoming holidays.
This site details several attempts that have been made to reform the Gregorian calendar. Included here are the World Calendar, the 13-month calendar, and the Positivist Calendar, in addition to a history of calendar reform.
This site shows all the Indonesian national holidays up through the year 2000, including religious festivals of _Moslem, Christian, Hindu Dharma, and Buddhist faiths.
Calculate the Crescent Moon’s visibility from this site, and check out the 1998 and 1999 calendars with Islamic dates.
Offering a “this day in literary history” service, the Literary Hyper Calendar has an interface consisting of the calendar for the current month. The calendar is a clickable imagemap and you simply click the date in which you are interested. In addition, you can choose from a list of other months and days.
A very comprehensive set of links to resources from the Millennium Institute.
The page generates a calendar for the given range of months which contains, for each day, the Julian Date, Sun rise & set times, and Moon rise & set times.
Offering festivals, celebrations, and holidays from ancient and modern cultures around the world, this is an excellent multicultural resource. The calendar is updated weekly.
This calendar offers a this-week-in-rock-and-roll-history service, which details the anniversaries of births, deaths, and famous events occurring in that week.
Space-related activities and anniversaries for the coming year, compliments of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Includes all Jewish holidays and events. Click on a calendar date to see that day’s significance, along with suggested Torah readings and activities.
Explains and calculates movable holidays (that is, those that don’t happen on the exact same date every year) for almost every culture, country, and religion.
http://www.payvand.com/calendar/intro.html
http://tehran.stanford.edu/Calendar/calendar.html
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~rjsalvad/scmfaq/calendar.html
http://members.tripod.com/~PHILKON/index.html
http://www.bcca.org/~glittle/today.html
http://www.panix.com/~wlinden/calendar.shtml
http://www.boutell.com/birthday.cgi
http://www.intellinet.com/CoolTools/CalendarMaker/