The Gregorian calendar is the calendar used in most parts of the world. It was introduced in October 1582 by Pope Gregory XIII as a modification of, and replacement for, the Julian calendar.The principal change was to space leap years differently so as to make the average calendar year 365.2425 days long, more closely approximating the 365.2422-day 'tropical' or …

The Republic of China calendar, often shortened to the ROC calendar or the Minguo calendar, is a calendar used in Taiwan, Penghu, Kinmen, and Matsu.The calendar uses 1912, the year of the establishment of the Republic of China (ROC), as the first year.. The ROC calendar follows the tradition of using the sovereign's era name and year of reign, as did previous Chinese …

2011 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2011th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) ... 1924) Pete Postlethwaite, English actor (b. 1946) Richard Winters, American paratrooper (b. 1918) January 4. Prince Ali-Reza Pahlavi of Iran (b.

This national electoral calendar for 2016 lists the national/federal direct elections that were held in 2016 in all sovereign states and their dependent territories. By-elections are excluded, though national referendums are included. Part of the Politics series: Elections; Basic types. By-election; Corporate; Direct / Indirect; Fixed-term;

Athens was chosen as the host city during the 106th IOC Session held in Lausanne, Switzerland on 5 September 1997. The Greek capital had lost its bid to organize the 1996 Summer Olympics to the American city of Atlanta nearly seven years before, during the 96th IOC Session in Tokyo, Japan on 18 September 1990. Under the direction of Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki, Athens …

From January 3 to June 3, 2008, voters of the Democratic Party chose their nominee for president in the 2008 United States presidential election. Senator Barack Obama of Illinois was selected as the nominee, becoming the first African American to secure the presidential nomination of any major political party in the United States. However, due to a close race between Obama and …

Le passage du calendrier julien au calendrier grégorien, promulgué par le pape Grégoire XIII en février 1582, a eu lieu dans un court délai, souvent moins d'un an, dans la plupart des pays catholiques ; en revanche, les pays protestants comme les pays orthodoxes ont ignoré ou refusé cette réforme, du fait qu'ils récusaient l'autorité religieuse du pape, a fortiori, les pays non ...

This national electoral calendar for 2022 lists the national/federal elections that were and are scheduled to be held in 2022 in all sovereign states and their dependent territories. By-elections are excluded, though national referendums are included. Specific dates …

The sexagenary cycle, also known as the Stems-and-Branches or ganzhi (Chinese: 干支), is a cycle of sixty terms, each corresponding to one year, thus a total of sixty years for one cycle, historically used for recording time in China and then spread into the rest of the East Asian cultural sphere. It appears as a means of recording days in the first Chinese written texts, the …

This national electoral calendar for 2015 lists the national/federal direct elections that were held in 2015 in all sovereign states and their dependent territories. By-elections are excluded, though national referendums are included. Part of the Politics series: Elections; Basic types. By-election; Corporate; Direct / Indirect; Fixed-term;