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This is a list of Hijri years (Latin: anno Hegirae or AH) with the corresponding common era years where applicable. For Hijri years since 1297 AH (1879/1881 CE), the Gregorian date of 1 Muharram , the first day of the year in the Islamic calendar , is given.
Islamic calendar stamp issued at King Khalid International Airport on 10 Rajab 1428 AH (24 July 2007 CE). The Hijri calendar (Arabic: ٱلتَّقْوِيم ٱلْهِجْرِيّ, romanized: al-taqwīm al-hijrī), or Arabic calendar, also known in English as the Muslim calendar and Islamic calendar, is a lunar calendar consisting of 12 lunar months in a year of 354 or 355 days.
Hijri date 1446 AH Islamic New Year: 1 Muḥarram 7 July 2024 Ashura: 10 Muḥarram 17 July 2024 Arbaʽeen [a] 20 or 21 Ṣafar [b] 26 Aug. 2024 Akhiri Chahar Shambah [c] Last Wednesday of Ṣafar Eid-e-Shuja' (Eid-e-Zahra) [d] 9 Rabī‘ al-Awwal Mawlid an-Nabī (Birthday of Muhammad) [e] 12 Rabī‘ al-Awwal 15 Sep. 2024 Baptism of Muhammad [f]
Noting that the average year has 354 + 11 ⁄ 30 days and a common year has 354 days, at the end of the first year of the 30-year cycle the remainder is 11 ⁄ 30 day. Whenever the remainder exceeds a half day ( 15 ⁄ 30 day), then a leap day is added to that year, reducing the remainder by one day.
The Hijri era is calculated according to the Islamic lunar calendar, whose epoch (first year) is the year of Muhammad's Hijrah, and begins on the first day of the month of Muharram (equivalent to the Julian calendar date of July 16, 622 CE). [2] [b] The date of the Hijrah itself did not form the Islamic New Year.
The Islamic New Year (Arabic: رأس السنة الهجرية, Raʿs as-Sanah al-Hijrīyah), also called the Hijri New Year, is the day that marks the beginning of a new lunar Hijri year, and is the day on which the year count is incremented. The first day of the Islamic year is observed by most Muslims on the first day of the month of Muharram.
The calendar's epoch (first year) corresponds to the Hijrah in 622 CE, which is the same as the epoch of the Lunar Hijri calendar but as it is a solar calendar, the two calendars' year numbers do not coincide with each other and are slowly drifting apart, being about 43 years apart as of 2023.
The Islamic Republic government changed the original date to coincide with the assassination of Morteza Motahhari on 1 May 1979. May 1: May 2: May 3 14 Khordad: Anniversary of the Death of Khomeini: Public holiday in Iran: June 3: June 4: June 5 15 Khordad: Anniversary Revolt of Khordad 15: Public holiday in Iran: June 4: June 5: June 6 13 Tir ...