611 BC Chr.

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Events

science and technology

  • 15th year of reign of the Babylonian king Nabopolassar (611 to 610 BC): In the Babylonian calendar , the beginning of the first year of Nisannu falls  on the 13th-14th centuries. March; the full moon in Nisannu on the 25th – 26th March and the 1st Tašritu on the 4th – 5th October.
  • In his 15th year of reign, Nabopolassar proclaimed the leap month Ululu II , which begins on September 5th.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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 .
  2. ^ 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.