Our Calendar / The Julian calendar and its errors. How corrected by the Gregorian. Rules for finding the dominical letter, and the day of the week of any event from the days of Julius Caesar 46 B.C. to the year of our Lord four thousand; a new and easy method of fixing the date of Easter. Hebrew calendar; showing the correspondence in the date of events recorded in the Bible with our present Gregorian calendar. Illustrated by valuable tables and charts.

CONTENTS.

PART FIRST.
DEFINITIONS—HISTORY.
		Pages.
Chapter I.—	Definitions	11
Chapter II.—	History of the divisions of time, and the old Roman Calendar	12
Chapter III—	History of the reformation of the Calendar by Julius CÆsar	18
Chapter IV.—	History of the reformation of the Julian Calendar by Pope Gregory XIII	20
Chapter V.—	Peculiarities of the Roman Calendar	26

PART SECOND.
MATHEMATICAL.
Chapter I.—	Errors of the Julian Calendar	36
Chapter II.—	Errors of the Gregorian Calendar	38
Chapter III.—	Dominical Letter	39
Chapter IV.—	Rule for finding the Dominical Letter	44
Chapter V.—	Rule for finding the day of the week of any given date, for both Old and New Styles	50
Chapter VI.—	A simple method of finding the day of the week of events, which occur quadrennially; the inaugural of the Presidents, the day of the week on which they have occurred and on which they will occur for the next one hundred years	61
	Some peculiarities concerning events which fall on the 29th of February	64
Chapter VII.—	Rule for finding the day of the week of events prior to the Christian era	68

PART THIRD.
CYCLES—JULIAN PERIOD—EASTER.
Chapter I.—	The Solar Cycle	73
Chapter II.—	The Lunar Cycle	75
Chapter III.—	The Lunar Cycle and Golden Number	77
Chapter IV.—	Cycle of Indiction, and the Julian Period	79
Chapter V.—	Easter	82
Chapter VI.—	A new and easy method of fixing the date of Easter	88
Chapter VII.—	Church feasts and fasts whose date depend on the date of Easter	108
Chapter VIII.—	Hebrew Calendar	OUR CALENDAR. PART FIRST. DEFINITIONS. HISTORY. Clyx.com