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This is a list of calendars.Included are historical calendars as well as proposed ones. Historical calendars are often grouped into larger categories by cultural sphere or historical period; thus O'Neil (1976) distinguishes the groupings Egyptian calendars (Ancient Egypt), Babylonian calendars (Ancient Mesopotamia), Indian calendars (Hindu and Buddhist traditions of the Indian subcontinent ...
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Modern day Indonesian Gregorian calendar for a Catholic church British calendar, 1851, gilt bronze and malachite, height: 20.3 cm, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City). A calendar is a system of organizing days.
The history of calendars covers practices with ancient roots as people created and used various methods to keep track of days and larger divisions of time.Calendars commonly serve both cultural and practical purposes and are often connected to astronomy and agriculture.
The Gregorian calendar is the calendar used in most parts of the world. [1] [a] It went into effect in October 1582 following the papal bull Inter gravissimas issued by Pope Gregory XIII, which introduced it as a modification of, and replacement for, the Julian calendar.
Memorial plaque to John Etty in All Saints' Church, North Street, York, recording his date of death as "28 of Jan: 170 + 8 / 9 ". In the Kingdom of Great Britain and its possessions, the Calendar (New Style) Act 1750 introduced two concurrent changes to the calendar.
The calendar year can be divided into four quarters, [2] often abbreviated as Q1, Q2, Q3, and Q4. Since they are three months each, they are also called trimesters.In the Gregorian calendar: