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Events
- In his 18th year of reign (608 to 607 BC) the Babylonian king Nabopolassar proclaimed the leap month Ululu II , which begins on September 2nd.
- In the Babylonian calendar , the Babylonian New Year of Nisannu 1 falls on the 9-10 . March; the full moon in Nisannu on the 24. – 25. March and the 1st Tašritu on the 2nd – 3rd October.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Date 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 .
- ^ 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.