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  2. Names of the days of the week - Wikipedia

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    The Babylonians invented the actual [clarification needed] seven-day week in 600 BCE, with Emperor Constantine making the Day of the Sun (dies Solis, "Sunday") a legal holiday centuries later. [2] In the international standard ISO 8601, Monday is treated as the first day of the week, but in many countries it is counted as the second day of the ...

  3. 2002 renaming of Turkmen months and days of week - Wikipedia

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    Publications in languages other than Turkmen often used the new names too, especially those that were targeted at Russian-speaking citizens of Turkmenistan, with the old name sometimes written in brackets. The old month names were still used in popular speech, however. [1] Four years after the change, Niyazov died in 2006.

  4. Roman calendar - Wikipedia

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    Roman dates were counted inclusively forward to the next one of three principal days within each month: [54] Kalends (Kalendae or Kal.), the 1st day of each month [54] Nones (Nonae or Non.), the 7th day of "full months" [55] [f] and 5th day of hollow ones, [54] 8 days—i.e. the ninth day—before the Ides in every month

  5. History of calendars - Wikipedia

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    Their names for the months and days are Parthian equivalents of the Avestan ones used previously, differing slightly from the Middle Persian names used by the Sassanians. For example, in Achaemenid times the modern Persian month 'Day' was called Dadvah (Creator), in Parthian it was Datush, and the Sassanians named it Dadv/Dai (Dadar in Pahlavi).

  6. Week - Wikipedia

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    The day of the week can be easily calculated given a date's Julian day number (JD, i.e. the integer value at noon UT): Adding one to the remainder after dividing the Julian day number by seven (JD modulo 7 + 1) yields that date's ISO 8601 day of the week. For example, the Julian day number of 2 March 2025 is 2460737.

  7. Wednesday - Wikipedia

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    Wednesday is the day of the week between Tuesday and Thursday. According to international standard ISO 8601, it is the third day of the week. [1] In English, the name is derived from Old English Wōdnesdæg and Middle English Wednesdei, 'day of Woden', reflecting the religion practised by the Anglo-Saxons, the English equivalent to the Norse ...

  8. Gregorian calendar - Wikipedia

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    However, for many years it has been customary to put the extra day at the end of the month of February, adding a 29 February for the leap day. Before the 1969 revision of its General Roman Calendar , the Catholic Church delayed February feasts after the 23rd by one day in leap years; masses celebrated according to the previous calendar still ...

  9. Talk:Names of the days of the week/Archive 1 - Wikipedia

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    The first complete list of planetary names for the days of the seven-day week is in Greek by Vettius Valens about AD 170 where he explains how these names were obtained from the planetary names for the hours (see Days of the week#Astrology). I have not traced the first appearance of all planetary names for the seven-day week in a Roman source.