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The Iranian calendars or Iranian chronology ... To offset the difference between the agricultural year and the calendar year ... 1388: 21 March 2009 – 20 March 2010 3:
Solar Hijri calendar. The Solar Hijri calendar or (Iranian) Persian calendar [ a] is the official calendar of Iran and Afghanistan. It is a solar calendar and is the one Iranian calendar that is the most similar to the Gregorian calendar, it also is one of the most accurate in the world, being based on the Earth's orbit around the Sun.
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. The first Hijri year (AH 1) was retrospectively considered to have begun on the Julian calendar date 15 July 622 (known as the ‘astronomical’ or ‘Thursday’ epoch, Julian day 1,948,439) or 16 July ...
Iranian calendar: 766–767: Islamic calendar: 789–790: Japanese calendar: Kakei 2 (嘉慶2年) ... Year 1388 (MCCCLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday ...
Jalali calendar. The Jalali calendar, also referred to as Malikshahi and Maliki, [ 1] is a solar calendar compiled during the reign of Jalaluddin Malik-Shah I, the Sultan of the Seljuk Empire (1072–1092 CE), by the order of Grand Vizier Nizam al-Mulk, using observations made in the cities of Isfahan (the capital of the Seljuks), Rey, and ...
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 . Archeologists have reconstructed methods of timekeeping that go back to ...
This year, it takes place at 26 seconds past 6.36 a.m., March 20, in Tehran, Iran (11:06 p.m., March 19, EDT). In India, Nowruz is celebrated on two days, this year on March 20 and August 15 ...
Different interpretations of the concept of Nasī’have been proposed.[23] Some scholars, both Muslim[24][25]and Western,[4][6]maintain that the pre-Islamiccalendar used in Central Arabia was a purely lunar calendar similar to the modern Islamic calendar. According to this view, Nasī’is related to the pre-Islamic practices of the Meccan ...