Calendars.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXX, Issue 33, 14 August 1902, Page 4

Calendars.

Before 1582 the year was reckoned, according to the Julian calendar, as containing 3i>s days and six hours, which exceeded by some minutes us actual length. This error was corrected by the Gregorian Calendar of Gregory XIII , who ordered the day following October 4, 1582, to be callei October 15 ; and by his arrangement for the le.ip years he prevented the recurrence of the error. The old style of reckoning was observed by England till 1752 (chiefly because of anti-Popery sentiment), when the day after Sentamber 2 uas called Septemb-r 14. The old style is still observed by Russia, Greece, and the smaller btates adhering to the Greek Church. Brides the Julian or old calendar, and the Gregorian or new calendar, there are the Jewish and Mohammedan calendars and a variety of calendars in the E ist, of which the most important are the Chinese, the Japanese tha 11 ndon, and the P^r»e>\ Ti,e year 1'.)02 is the Gislsth y^ar of the Julian period, and the 2f).)ith y.:nr from the foundation of Rome. In this present year will begin, according to the Jewish calculation, the sd63rd year since the crf-atio'v ol the

Tl-e year 51r!3 of the Jewish era will begin ou O-jtober 2. The year l.' )1 20 of tae Mohauamedan era began on April 10.