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THE

AMERICAN ALMANAC,

FOR

1845.

PART I.

THE

AMERICAN ALMANAC,

FOR THE YEAR

1845,

Being the latter part of the 69th, and the beginning of the 70th,

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year of the Independence of the United States of America;

the 6558th year of the Julian Period;

the latter part of the 5605th and the beginning of the 5606th, year since the creation of the world, according to the Jews;

the 2598th year (according to Varro) since the foundation of Rome;

the 2592d year since the era of Nabonassar, which has been assigned 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 2621st year of the Olympiads, or the first year of the 656th Olympiad, beginning in July, 1843, 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 1260th, and the beginning of the 1261st 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 662 of the Christian era.

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Conjunction, or having the same Longitude or Right Ascension.

Quadrature, or differing 90° in

8 Opposition, or

180° in

The ascending, U the descending node.

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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. a., denote Morning and Afternoon.

CHRONOLOGICAL CYCLES.

Dominical Letter,
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E.
22 Roman Indiction,

Solar Cycle,

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Lunar Cycle, or or Golden Number, 3 | Julian Period,

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(Winter and Autumn) 178 18 45 49

Length of the tropical year, commencing at the winter solstice, 1843, and terminating at the winter solstice, 1844,

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Mean or average length of the tropical year, 365 5 48 48

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JEWISH CALENDAR.

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

Year. Names of the Months.

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*Second Feast, or Morrow of the

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*Feast of Weeks or Pentecost
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*Fast for the burning of the Temple

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5606 Tisri begins

*Feast for the New Year

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*Second Feast for the New Year
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16th

*Second Feast of the Huts

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