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  2. History of calendars - Wikipedia

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    The Maya new year would start with 1 Pop, followed by 2 Pop, all the way through to 19 Pop, followed by the seating of the month of Uo, written as 0 Uo, then 1 Uo, 2 Uo and so on. These two cycles coincided every 52 years. The 52-year period of time was called a "bundle" and was similar to a modern-day century. [56]

  3. Metonic cycle - Wikipedia

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    In the Babylonian and Hebrew lunisolar calendars, the years 3, 6, 8, 11, 14, 17, and 19 are the long (13-month) years of the Metonic cycle. This cycle forms the basis of the Greek and Hebrew calendars. A 19-year cycle is used for the computation of the date of Easter each year. The Babylonians applied the 19-year cycle from the late sixth ...

  4. Cosmic Calendar - Wikipedia

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    A graphical view of the Cosmic Calendar, featuring the months of the year, days of December, the final minute, and the final second. The Cosmic Calendar is a method to visualize the chronology of the universe, scaling its currently understood age of 13.8 billion years to a single year in order to help intuit it for pedagogical purposes in science education or popular science.

  5. International Fixed Calendar - Wikipedia

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    The calendar year has 13 months with 28 days each, divided into exactly 4 weeks (13 × 28 = 364). An extra day added as a holiday at the end of the year (after December 28, i.e. equal to December 31 Gregorian), sometimes called "Year Day", does not belong to any week and brings the total to 365 days.

  6. Gregorian calendar - Wikipedia

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    The Gregorian calendar, like the Julian calendar, is a solar calendar with 12 months of 28–31 days each. The year in both calendars consists of 365 days, with a leap day being added to February in the leap years. The months and length of months in the Gregorian calendar are the same as for the Julian calendar.

  7. Unit of time - Wikipedia

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    A division of the academic year. [5] Literally "six months", also used in this sense. lunar year: 354.37 d: year: 12 mo: 365 or 366 d: common year: 365 d: 52 weeks and 1 day. tropical year: 365 d 5 h 48 min 45.216 s [6] Average. Gregorian year: 365 d 5 h 49 min 12 s: Average. sidereal year: 365 d 6 h 9 min 9.763 5456 s: leap year: 366 d: 52 ...

  8. Mesoamerican Long Count calendar - Wikipedia

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    The full year date is 644 CE. Now calculate the month and day number, taking into account leap days over the 44 years. In the Gregorian Calendar, every fourth year is a leap year with the exception of centuries not evenly divisible by 400 (e.g. 100, 200, 300). When the year is divisible by 400 (e.g. 400, 800, etc.), do not add an extra day.

  9. Light-year - Wikipedia

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    A light-year, alternatively spelled light year ( ly or lyr[ 3] ), is a unit of length used to express astronomical distances and is equal to exactly 9,460,730,472,580.8 km ( Scientific notation: 9.4607304725808 × 10 12 km), which is approximately 5.88 trillion mi.