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This template may be used to display a person's or entity's whole lifespan in years, and optionally their final age or duration, also in years; the Gregorian calendar and AD/CE era are respectively, the implied default calendar and editable default era. Astronomical dates are not specifically handled; negative years are not allowed, but year '0' (zero) may be used when applicable. All date ...
Modern style guides recommend avoiding the use of the ordinal (e.g. 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th) form of numbers when the day follows the month (July 4 or July 4, 2024), [5] [6] and that format is not included in ISO standards. [7] The ordinal was common in the past and is still sometimes used ([the] 4th [of] July or July 4th).
April 4 – Wiguleus Fröschl of Marzoll, Bishop of Passau (1500–1517) (d. 1517) October 25 – Fulk Bourchier, 10th Baron FitzWarin, English baron (d. 1479) October 31 – Hedwig, Abbess of Quedlinburg, Princess-Abbess of Quedlinburg (d. 1511) December 11 – Eberhard I, Duke of Württemberg (d. 1496)
The Gregorian calendar did not exist before October 15, 1582. Gregorian dates before that are proleptic, that is, using the Gregorian rules to reckon backward from October 15, 1582. Years are given in astronomical year numbering. Augustus corrected errors in the observance of leap years by omitting leap days until AD 8.
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 ...
The Gregorian calendar was implemented in Russia on 14 February 1918 by dropping the Julian dates of 1–13 February 1918, [h] pursuant to a Sovnarkom decree signed 24 January 1918 (Julian) by Vladimir Lenin. The decree required that the Julian date was to be written in parentheses after the Gregorian date, until 1 July 1918. [19]
Every so often, the shortest month of the year, February, is given one extra day, making it 29 days long. 2024 is one of those years, making this year a leap year, where, in addition to February ...
This is a list of countries showing past life expectancy, ranging from 1950 to 2015 in five-year periods, as estimated by the 2017 revision of the World Population Prospects database by the United Nations Population Division. Life expectancy equals the average number of years a person born in a given country is expected to live if mortality ...