preceding calendar year

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• calendar — calendrical /keuh len dri keuhl/, calendric, calendarial /kal euhn dair ee euhl/, calendarian, calendaric, adj. /kal euhn deuhr/, n. 1. a table or register with the days of each month and week in a year: He marked the date on his calendar. 2. any …   Universalium

• CALENDAR — (Heb. לוּחַ, lu aḥ). The present Jewish calendar is lunisolar, the months being reckoned according to the moon and the years according to the sun. A month is the period of time between one conjunction of the moon with the sun and the next. The… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

• Calendar (New Style) Act 1750 — Parliament of Great Britain Long title An Act for Regulating the Commencement of the Year; and for Correcting the Calendar now in Use Statute book chapter 1 …   Wikipedia

• Fortune European Businessman of the Year — Fortune magazine gives an annual award for the person it considers to be the European Businessman of the Year. Fortune is based in the United States, but it has a European edition which features this award prominently. Currently the award is… …   Wikipedia

• Calendar era — A calendar era is the year numbering system used by a calendar. For example, the Gregorian calendar numbers its years in the Western Christian era (the Coptic and Ethiopic churches have their own Christian eras, see below). The instant, date, or… …   Wikipedia

• Calendar reform — A calendar reform is any significant revision of a calendar system. The term sometimes is used instead for a proposal to switch to a different calendar.Most calendars have several rules which could be altered by reform: * Grouping of days of the… …   Wikipedia

• Year zero — There is no year zero in the widely used Gregorian calendar, nor in its predecessor, the Julian calendar. Under those systems, the year 1 BC is followed by AD 1. However, there is a year zero in astronomical year numbering (where it coincides… …   Wikipedia

• year of confusion — the year 46 B.C. when the Julian calendar was introduced 708 years from the founding of Rome * * * (in ancient Rome) the year of 445 days preceding the introduction, in 46 B.C., of the Julian calendar: lengthened to compensate for the cumulative… …   Useful english dictionary

• CALENDAR —    most traditional religions follow a LITURGICAL calendar. In ISLAM a lunar calendar is still used to set the dates and times for important feasts and fasting such as RAMADAM; in CHRISTIANITY the calendar is fixed. There are differences in usage …   Concise dictionary of Religion

• year — noun 1 period of 12 months; period from January till December ADJECTIVE ▪ last, past ▪ The chart shows our performance over the past year. ▪ past, preceding, previous, recent …   Collocations dictionary

• Year of Confusion — (in ancient Rome) the year of 445 days preceding the introduction, in 46 B.C., of the Julian calendar: lengthened to compensate for the cumulative errors of the Roman calendar. * * * …   Universalium