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The Iranian calendars or Iranian chronology ( Persian: گاهشماری ایرانی, Gâh-Şomâriye Irâni) are a succession of calendars created and used for over two millennia in Iran, also known as Persia. One of the longest chronological records in human history, the Iranian calendar has been modified many times for administrative ...
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.
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.
1388 in various calendars; Gregorian calendar: ... Iranian calendar: 766–767: Islamic calendar: ... defeats an English army, capturing their leader, Harry Hotspur ...
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 ...
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 ...
Dey (month) Dey ( Persian: دی, Persian pronunciation: [dei̯] [ 1]) is the tenth month of the Solar Hijri calendar, the official calendar of Iran and Afghanistan. It marks the start of winter. [ 1] It has thirty days, [ 1] beginning in December and ending in January of the Gregorian Calendar . The associated astrological sign in the tropical ...
Exactly when Nowruz began as a festival is unclear, though many believe it to date back around 3,000 years ago, with roots in Zoroastrianism, one of the world’s oldest monotheistic religions ...