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Events
politics
- In his 18th year of reign (727 to 726 BC), the Assyrian and Babylonian king Tiglat-Pileser III dies . Middle of the month of Tebetu ( January ).
- Year of accession of the Assyrian and Babylonian King Shalmaneser V , who ascends to the throne on January 19 (25 Tebetu: January 18-19 ).
science and technology
- 1st year of reign of the Assyrian and Babylonian king Shalmaneser V (726 to 725 BC): In the Babylonian calendar , the Babylonian New Year of Nisannu falls on the 25th – 26th. March; the full moon in Nisannu on the 5th – 6th April and the 1st Tašritu on the 16. – 17. September.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Date specification in the Gregorian calendar : in the Julian calendar system , 8 days are to be added to the Gregorian date. The date is based on the NASA information ( Memento from November 21, 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.