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                                 CALENDAR

                                                           CALENDAR

                         


CALENDAR

A timetable is a plan of dealing with days for social, severe, business or administrative purposes.

This is done by offering names to time allotments, ordinarily days, weeks, months and years.
calendar, A date is a task of alone, express day inside such a system.

A calendar is furthermore a physical record (every now and again paper) of such a structure.

A timetable can in like manner mean a once-over of orchestrated events, for instance, a court plan or a for the most part or totally requested summary of chronicles,

Periods in a calendar, (for instance, years and months) are generally, anyway not so much, synchronized with the cycle of the sun or the moon.

calendar

                                           calendar, The most broadly perceived sort of pre-current timetable was the lunisolar calendar, a lunar timetable that now and then adds one intercalary month to remain synchronized with the sun

The term plan is taken from calendae (calendar), the term for the principle day of the month in the Roman timetable, related to the activity word calare "to get out", implying

the "calling" of the new moon when it was first seen.[1] Latin calendarium implied "account book, register" (as records were settled and commitments were accumulated on the calends of consistently).

calendar; The Latin articulation was held onto in Old French as calendier(calendar) and starting there in Middle English as calender by the thirteenth century (the spelling plan is early current).

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calendar

                                 

General knowledge question & answer On topic of calendar

1. Who improved the Roman Calendar?                         - Pope Gregory 

2. What is the basis of the National Calendar?                 -Saka Era     

3. Who helped Pope Gregory in rectifying the                  -Astronomer,
                                                                                      Christopher Clavius
Calendar?

 4. Who started the Julian Calendar?                                -Julius Caesar

5. What decides the unit of time measured by                   -Celestial

calendar?

6. When did America adopt the                                          -1752

Gregorian Calendar?

7. When did Russia adopt the Gregorian                           -1918

Calendar?

8. What do 7 days represent according to                         -Sun, moon and the five planets

Babylonians?

 9. When did Julius Caesar start his Julian                          -46 B.C.

Calendar?

10. When was the earlier New Year's day?                          -March 1

11. Who started the Leap Year?                                            -Julius Caesar

12. When did the National Calendar commence?                 -Chaitra 1 Saka 1879(March, 22nd 1957AD)    

13. Whose idea was 7 days a week?                                      -Babylonians            

14 Which is the first month of Saka Year?                               -Chaitra 1 (March 22nd)

15. Name the mathematician who helped Caesar                   -Sosigenes 

in formulating the calendar                                                        

                                             

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