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THE

AMERICAN ALMANAC,

FOR

1856.

PART I.

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TUE

AMERICAN

ALMANAC,

FOR THE YEAR

1856,

Being the latter part of the 80th, and the beginning of the 81st year of the Independence of the United States of America;

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the 6569th year of the Julian Period;

the latter part of the 5616th, and the beginning of the 5617th year since the creation of the world, according to the Jews; the 2609th year (according to Varro) since the foundation of Rome;

the 2603d year since the era of Nabonassar, which has been as

signed to Wednesday, the 26th of February, of the 3967th year of the Julian Period, which corresponds, according to the chronologists, to the 747th, and, according to the astronomers, to the 746th year before the birth of Christ; the 2632d year of the Olympiads, or the fourth year of the 658th Olympiad, which begins in July, 1853, if we fix the era of the Olympiads at 775 years before Christ, or at or about the beginning of July of the year 3938 of the Julian Period; the latter part of the 1272d and the beginning of the 1273d year (of twelve lunations) since the Hegira, or flight of Mahomet, which, as is generally supposed, took place on the 16th of July, in the year 622 of the Christian era.

I. CALENDAR AND CELESTIAL PHENOMENA FOR THE YEAR.

SIGNS OF THE PLANETS, &c.

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6 Conjunction, or having the same Longitude or Right Ascension. Quadrature, or differing 90° in

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The sign is prefixed to the latitude, or declination, of the Sun, or other heavenly body, when north, and the sign when south; but the former prefixed to the hourly motion of the Moon in latitude indicates that she is approaching, and the latter that she is receding from, the north pole of the ecliptic.

The letters M. A., m.i., denote Morning and Afternoon.

CHRONOLOGICAL CYCLES.

Dominical Letters,

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Lunar Cycle, or Golden Number, 14 | Julian Period, .

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[The anniversaries marked with an asterisk (*) are to be strictly observed.]

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"10th, *Fast of the Reconciliation or Atonement, Oct.

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