Tarek's Annual Events Page

Tarek's? Annual Events & Generator

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About this page:

? ? This page brings you a JavaScript Annual events generator, its core engine depends on the converter v7.2 formulae. The events include all of the important events in the Christian & Muslim religions & some national events in Jordan, my country. not all of these are public holidays, but are considered to be important.

?? The page also has some statistical crap in it, & would be of interest for no one, I just included them for fun, they were generated by calculation not from actual events that have happened, & as I said, errors can occur.

??? Just Launch the generator, & choose one of the calendar systems? & type in a specific year. The output would be the events in that specific year for that specific calendar system..

What are these annual events ?

??? I will mention here the annual events that are listed when you use the generator. I did not put all of the Islamic & Christian events & feasts. I have put the most famous & popular of them.

?? 1. Islamic annual events:
??????? a. New year's day in the Hijri Calendar (1st of Moharram).
??????? b. Yawm Ashoora', Day of Ashoora' (Moharram 10).
??????? c. Yawm Al-Mawlid Al-Nabawi, marking Prophet Mohammad's Birth. ( Rabee' Awwal 12).
??????? d. Yawm Al-Isra' W'l-Mi'raj, Day of Isra' & Mi'raj (Rajab 27).
??????? e. The Month of Ramadan (Fasting month).
??????? e. Eid Al-Fitr, The Feast after the end of Ramadan (Shawwal? 1-3).
??????? f. Al-Adha feast, the Great feast of Muslims (Thul Hijja 10-13).

? ? 2. Christian annual events:
??????? a. New year's day (Jan 1).
??????? b. Epiphany (Jan 6).
??????? c. Ash Wednesday & Lent (Variable).
??????? d. Palm Sunday (Variable).
??????? e. Good Friday (Variable).
??????? f. Easter (Variable).
??????? g. Ascension (Variable).
??????? h. Pentecost (Variable).
??????? i. Christmas (Dec 25).

??? Jordanian National events:
??????? a. Arbor Day (Jan 15).
??????? b. King Abdullah II Birthday (Jan 30).
??????? c. King Hussein I Death Anniversary (Feb 7).
??????? d. King Abdullah II Accession To The Throne Anniversary (Feb 7).
??????? e. Day of Al-Karamah (Mar 21).
??????? f. Labor Day (May 1).
??????? g. Independence Day of Jordan (May 25).
??????? h. King Abdullah II Coronation Anniversary (June 9).
??????? i. Army Day (June 10).

About Easter :

??? Easter, annual festival commemorating the resurrection of Jesus Christ, and the principal feast of the Christian year. It is celebrated on a Sunday on varying dates between March 22 and April 25 and is therefore called a movable feast.

?? The dates of several other ecclesiastical festivals, extending over a period between Septuagesima Sunday (the ninth Sunday before Easter) and the first Sunday of Advent, are fixed in relation to the date of Easter. Connected with the observance of Easter are the 40-day penitential season of Lent, beginning on Ash Wednesday and concluding at midnight on Holy Saturday, the day before Easter Sunday; Holy Week, commencing on Palm Sunday, including Good Friday, the day of the crucifixion, and terminating with Holy Saturday; and the Octave of Easter, extending from Easter Sunday through the following Sunday.

?? During the Octave of Easter in early Christian times, the newly baptized wore white garments, white being the liturgical color of Easter and signifying light, purity, and joy.

??? Constantine the Great, Roman emperor, convoked the Council of Nicaea in 325. The council unanimously ruled that the Easter festival should be celebrated throughout the Christian world on the first Sunday after the full moon following the vernal equinox; and that if the full moon should occur on a Sunday and thereby coincide with the Passover festival, Easter should be commemorated on the Sunday following. Coincidence of the feasts of Easter and Passover was thus avoided. (2)

Eastern Church, Western Church, Easter & History:

??? In these years, the east met the west, & all celebrated Easter on the same Sunday (1800-2100) :

1814 1817 1821 1824 1827 1838 1841 1844 1847 1848 1851 1858 1865 1868 1871 1876 1879 1882 1885 1886 1889 1892 1895 1896 1909 1912 1915 1916 1919 1922 1933 1936 1939 1942 1943 1946 1953 1960 1963 1966 1980 1984 1987 1990 2001 2004 2007 2010 2011 2014 2017 2028 2031 2034 2037 2038 2041 2048 2058 2061 2071 2082 2085 2091 2095

??? While in these years, the Eastern Easter started 5 weeks after the Western Easter (1800-2100) :

1804 1807 1812 1815 1823 1826 1831 1834 1842 1845 1850 1853 1861 1864 1869 1880 1883 1888 1891 1894 1902 1907 1910 1913 1918 1921 1926 1929 1932 1937 1940 1945 1948 1951 1956 1959 1964 1967 1970 1975 1978 1983 1986 1989 1994 1997 2002 2005 2008 2013 2016 2024 2027 2032 2035 2040 2043 2046 2051 2054 2059 2062 2065 2070 2073 2078 2081 2084 2089 2092 2097 2100

?? A rare thing to happen is to have both Easters 4 weeks apart (1800-2100):

?1872 1875 1899 2021

????? In the rest of the years, the Easters are separated by 1 week, there are no 2 or 3 weeks of difference & the Eastern Easter couldn't happen before the Western. The number of weeks will change as the Julian Calendar continues to lag behind the Gregorian.

Historical Years:

??? In the next few paragraphs, I present some insignificant data that I calculated while I was creating the annual events generator. Because my converter has a +/- 1 day error, I have included results that are 1 day off the mark as they may be correct after all. This also means however, that there might be a 2 day error in those. The exact matches are in bold, while the others are not.

??? In these years both the New year day of the Gregorian Calendar & that of the Hijri Calendar might have occurred on the same day :

1585 1748 1911 2139 2302? (1583-2500)

???? In 1974 "Al-Adha" feast was probably on Christmas day, this will happen again in 2039, The last time this had happened but with "Eid Al-Fitr" was in 1870 & it won't happen again before 2098. (+/- 1)

??? Christmas day, marking the birth of Christ also might have occurred on the day marking the birth of prophet Mohammed in 1917. The next time this might happen will be in 2080.

?? A very rare event to happen is to have Al-Adha feast (the greatest of Muslim feasts) occurring between The Western Church's? Easter & that of the Eastern Church (1800-2200):

1834? 1899#? 1932 1964 1997 2062 2127 2160? 2192 (in 1899, the Easters were 4 weeks apart, making it a very rare coincidence !!)

??? Doubles (the same Hijri day occurring twice in a single Gregorian year) -happen in cycles of approximately 33 years. Prominent days to mention (1800-2200):

??? Double 1st of Moharram (the new year):

1813 1845 1878 1911 1943 1976 2008 2041 2073 2106 2139 2171

??? Double 12th of Rabee' Awwal (Yawm Al-Mawled Al-Nabawi), Marking the birth of Prophet Mohammed):

1819 1852 1884 1917 1949 1950 1982 2015 2047 2080 2112 2113 2145? 2178

??? Double 1st of? Shawwal (Eid Al-Fitr, The Feast after the end of Ramadan):

1805 1837 1870 1902 1903 1935 1968 2000 2033 2065 2098 2130 2131 2163 2196

??? Double 10th of Thul Hijja (1st day of? "Al-Adha" feast, the Great feast of Muslims):

1811 1843 1844 1876 1909 1941 1974 2006 2007 2039 2071 2072 2104 2137 2169?

??? How many Ramadan days have you fasted this year ? Your answer would be 29 or 30, but I mean in this Gregorian year ?? Well the minimum as you know is 29, which happens fairly frequently, but? what about the maximum ?!! The number of days can reach up to 41 days when you have 2 Ramadans in 1 Gregorian year, but it can exceptionally exceed that to reach? the maximum of 42 days of fasting in 1 year, that Christian year should be a LEAP year to achieve that !!!! The last time 42 fasting days occurred in 1 year was in 1608 & the next would be 2324. The following years are the years in the range (1800-2200) that have 40 or more fasting days in them, each one of them is followed by EITHER another year with -40 or more days of fasting- OR a year with a double " Eid Al-Fitr":

1803 (40 days) 1804 (41 days) 1835 (41 days) 1836 (41 days) 1868 (41 days) 1869 (40 days) 1901 (40 days) 1933 (41 days) 1934 (40 days) 1966 (40 days) 1967 (40 days) 1998 (40 days) 1999 (41 days) 2031 (41 days) 2032 (41 days) 2063 (40 days) 2064 (41 days) 2096 (41 days) 2097 (41 days) 2129 (40 days) 2161 (40 days) 2162 (40 days) 2194 (40 days) 2195 (40 days)

??? Now just to continue going on with the crap, the previous were all in the Gregorian Calendrical year, but what were the coincidences before the Gregorian age, I mean in the Julian Calendar !!!! Here is a wrap up of all coincidences in the Julian Calendar. The range of years is from (632-1583) Julian:

??? 1st day of Al-Adha feast & Christmas:

??? 768 833 1061 1126 1289 1354 1582

??? 12th of Rbbee' Awwal (Yawm Al-Mawled Al-Nabawi) & Christmas:

?? 646 874 939 1004 1102 1167 1232 1395 1460

?? Double 1st of Moharram (the new year):

??? 639 640 672 705 737 770 802 835 867 868 900 932 933 965 998 1030 1063 1095 1128 1160 1193 1226 1258 1291 1323 1356 1388 1421 1453 1454 1486 1519 1551

??? Double 12th of Rbbee' Awwal (Yawm Al-Mawled Al-Nabawi):

?? 646 678 679 711 744 776 809 841 874 906 939 971 972 1004 1037 1069 1102 1134 1167 1199 1200 1232 1264 1265 1297 1330 1362 1395 1427 1460 1492 1493 1525 1558

?? Double 1st of? Shawwal (Eid Al-Fitr):

664 696 729 761 762 794 827 859 892 924 957 989 990 1022 1055 1087 1120 1152 1185 1217 1218 1250 1282 1283 1315 1348 1380 1413 1445 1478 1510 1511 1543 1576

?? Double 10th of Thul Hijja (1st day of? "Al-Adha" feast, the Great feast of Muslims):

?? 637 638 670 703 735 768 800 833 865 866 898 931 963 996 1028 1061 1093 1094 1126 1158 1159 1191 1224 1256 1289 1321 1354 1386 1387 1419 1452 1484 1517 1549 1582

?? +40 days of Ramadan:

??? 663 (41 days) 728 (41 days) 760 (41 days) 792 (41 days) 956 (41 days) 988 (42 days) 1020 (41 days) 1054 (41 days) 1086 (41 days) 1184 (41 days) 1216 (41 days) 1248 (41 days) 1313 (41 days) 1411 (41 days) 1412 (41 days) 1444 (41 days) 1476 (41 days) 1477 (41 days) 1575 (41 days)

???

When will the Hijri Calendar take over ?

??? Year 1 of the Hijri Calendar started in 622 CE, so it was 621 behind the Western Calendar ! & by the end of the 2nd millennium, it is still behind but only by 580 years, that is because the lunar-based Hijri year is about 11 days shorter than the solar-based Gregorian year, so a day must come when the calendars coincide. This will happen according to my converter? approximately in? the final days of the year 20874 !!! The same fate would have happened with the Julian Calendar on the 1st day of the 11th month of the year 20860 !!!

??? Several other pages on the web state that the Gregorian/Hijri coincidence would be 7 months earlier than that (which means a 7 day error !). This error comes from the fact that the Astronomical Hijri Calendar is based on a fixed 30 year cycle, which is fairly accurate for the time being, but will give a 1 day error every 3000 years, which is 100 cycles, & when reaching the year 21000, the error would be close to 7 days !!!

??? My converter bypasses this (almost) by relying on a fixed synodic period rather on a fixed cycle (which makes it more accurate), especially if you know that most Islamic countries rely on the sighting of the moon to determine the start of the month (which will bypass any error).? However, as you know, the synodic period is not fixed (what a shame) !! So, the actual date could be anything within 1 year of 1/1/2075 CE.

?? Also, you should take into consideration the error of the Gregorian Calendar which might give us a 1 day error every about 3000 years too, so these predictions are all hypothetical & require that the current Gregorian Calendar will be still in use 20,000 years from now !!!

?Last updated: May 7, 2002 CE (Gregorian)

References:?

Tarek's Hijri/Gregorian/Julian Converter