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| Chinese calendar | 33rd (34th) cycle year of the water tiger壬寅 ( at the beginning of the year metal buffalo 辛丑) |
| Greek calendar | 1./2. Year of the 25th Olympiad |
| Jewish calendar | 3082/83 |
| Roman calendar | from urbe condita LXXV (75) |
Events
science and technology
- 2nd year of reign of the Assyrian and Babylonian king Asarhaddon (679 to 678 BC):
- In the Babylonian calendar , the Babylonian New Year of Nisannu 1 fell on the 14th – 15th centuries. March,; the full moon in Nisannu on the 27.-28. March, the 1st Simanu on the 12th – 13th May and the 1st Tašritu on the 7th-8th October.
- Declaration of the leap month Ululu II , which begins on September 8th.
- Assyrian scribes record the results of their observation of the lunar eclipse of 25/26. May (14th Simanu: May 25-26).
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g Date specification 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.