After I finally decided to go with a calendar idea for one of my final pieces I started researching more facts and the designs that are already there that might help me to develop my idea further.
- Length of the (tropical) year in 2000 A.D.: 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes, 45 seconds
- Time that the year has slowed since 1 A.D.: 1O seconds
- Average decrease in the year due to a gradual slowing of the earth's rotation: 1/2 second per century
- Lunar Month: 29 days, 12 hours, 44 minutes, 2.9 seconds
- The earliest known date: 4236 B.C., the founding of the Egyptian calendar
- Ancient Egyptian year: 365 1/4 days
- Early Chinese year: 354 days (lunar year)with days added at intervals to keep the Chinese lunar calendar aligned with the seasons
- Early Greek year: 354 days, with days added
- Jewish year: 354 days, with days added
- Early Roman year: 304 days, amended in 700 B.C. to 355 days
- The year according to Julius Caesar (the Julian calendar): 365 1/4 days
- Date Caesar changed Roman year to Julian calendar: January 1, 46 B.C.
- Amount of time the old Roman calendar was misaligned with the solar year as designated by Caesar: 80 days
- Total length of 46 B.C. known as the"Year of Confusion,"after adding 80 days: 445 days
- The year as amended by Pope Gregory XIII (the Gregorian calendar):365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes, 20 seconds
- Date Pope Gregory reformed the calendar: 1582
- Length of time the Julian calendar overestimates the solar year per year, as determined by Pope Gregory: 11 minutes, 14 seconds
- Number of days Pope Gregory removed to correct the calendar's drift: 10
- Dates Gregory eliminated by papal bull to realign his calendar with the solar year: October 5-14, 1582
- Dates most Catholic countries accepted the Gregorian calendar: 1582 - 1584
- Date Protestant Germany accepted the Gregorian calendar: partial acceptance in 1700, full acceptance in 1775
- Date Great Britain (and the American colonies) accepted the Gregorian calendar: 1752
- Length of time eliminated by the British Parliament to realign the old calendar Julian) with the Gregorian calendar: 11 days
- Dates Parliament eliminated: September 3-13, 1752
- Date Japan accepted the Gregorian calendar: 1873
- Date Russia accepted the Gregorian calendar: 1917 (and again in 1940)
- Date China accepted the Gregorian calendar: 1949
- Date the Eastern Orthodox Church last voted to reject the Gregorian calendar and retain the Julian calendar: 1971
- Length of time the Gregorian calendar is off from the true solar year: 25.96768 seconds per year
- Length of time the Gregorian calendar has become misaligned over the 414 years since Gregory's reform in 1582: 2 hours, 59 minutes, 12 seconds
- Year in which the Gregorian calendar will be one day ahead of the true solar year: A.D. 4909
- Year that Atomic Time replaced Earth Time as the world's official time standard: 1972
- The year as measured in oscillations of atomic cesium: 290,091.200,500,000,000
- Year 2000 Will Be:
- 2004 according to Christ's actual birth circa 4 B.C.
- 2753 according to the old Roman calendar
- 2749 according to the ancient Babylonian calendar
- 6236 according to the first Egyptian calendar
- 5760 according to the Jewish calendar
- 1420 according to the Moslem calendar
- 1378 according to the Persian calendar
- 1716 according to the Coptic calendar
- 2544 according to the Buddhist calendar
- 5119 in the current Maya great cycle
- 208 according to the calendar of the French Revolution
- the year of the DRAGON according to the Chinese calendar
Facts on calendars:
Some innovative and interactive designs I found on the web:
Good ideas for calendars here:
While looking for innovative design ideas for the calendar I came across this amazing website:
It has stocks so many calendar designs that I even got dizzy while looking trough them.
I'll put some examples of the work that I came across on the website:
A meat calendar? Ow yeck, I'm a vegetarian. Only the Germans can come up with this kind of thing:D (joke), tho it is designed based on a christmas meal in Germany.
A t-shirt calendar. Now that is wicked.
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