8 sentences with “calendar”

Muhammad's journey to Medina is called the Hejira (Hijra in English) and is the starting date of the Islamic calendar.

Julius Caesar established a new calendar, which included the month of "July" named after him, and regularised the Roman currency.

Once it enjoyed the support of the Roman elite, the Christian church began to incorporate non-Christian feasts into its own liturgical calendar.

With this in mind, the incorporation of non-Christian celebrations into the liturgical calendar did not imply that Christians were willing to accept polytheism.

Because the members of the committee believed that not only France, but the world was on the threshold of a new era, they proclaimed the creation of a new calendar that began on 22 September 1792 (Day 1, Year 1), the day on which the republic was declared.

France went from an absolute Catholic monarchy to a radical, secular republic with universal suffrage for men, a new calendar, a new system of weights and measures and the declared aim of conquering the rest of Europe in the name of liberty, all in the space of about five years.

On International Women's Day in February 1917 (using the Eastern Orthodox calendar still in use at the time - it was March in the West), women workers in St Petersburg demonstrated against the Tsar's government to protest about food prices, which had skyrocketed because of the war.

It is the ninth month of the Islamic calendar, the celebration of which varies from year to year due to lunar influence. "He who contemplates the coming of Ramadan must fast during that month," the Qur'an tells Mohammedan believers, who are not allowed to eat, drink, smoke or make love during the day.