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science and technology
- 2nd year of reign of the Babylonian king Šamaš-šuma-ukin (666 to 665 BC)
- Babylonian astronomers are recording the dates of the lunar eclipse there on April 3rd .
- In the Babylonian calendar , the Babylonian New Year of 1st Nisannu fell on the 21st – 22nd. March ( beginning of spring ); the full moon in Nisannu on the 3rd – 4th April and the 1st Tašritu on the 14th-15th September.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Date information in the Gregorian calendar : in the Julian calendar system , 7 days are to be added to the Gregorian date. The date is based on NASA information ( Memento from November 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) taking into account the T-Delta. For Babylonia, the time zone surcharge of 3 hours must be taken into account for Universal Time (UT); according to Jean Meeus : Astronomical Algorithms - Applications for Ephemeris Tool 4,5 - , Barth, Leipzig 2000 for: Ephemeris Tool 4,5 according to Jean Meeus, conversion program, 2001 .
- ^ A b Hermann Hunger: Lunar and Planetary Texts (Astronomical Diaries and related Texts from Babylonia, Vol. 5) . Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-7001-3028-7 , p. 395.