Muslims celebrate the Islamic New Year on the first of the month of Muharram of each Hijri year, but many fall into a common ...

There are a number of different calendars used around the world today, including the Gregorian calendar (in which the current year is 2025) and the traditional Chinese calendar (in which the ...

At the time, this put a 10-day gap between the Gregorian calendar and the Julian calendar. Now, in 2025, the Julian calendar is 13 days behind the Gregorian calendar and by 2100, it will be 14 ...

The Julian calendar falls a little further behind the Gregorian each year − it's lost 13 days since the Council of Nicaea − but the Orthodox Church still uses it for liturgical purposes.

The Jewish calendar is a lunisolar calendar, also based on lunar months, that begins with the first day of Rosh Hashanah. Here's when Easter and Passover are this year and why they fall "late" in ...

Under the Julian calendar, New Year’s celebrations had taken place between 25 March and 1 April; however, the introduction of the Gregorian calendar meant they now culminated on 1 January ...

This year, the spring equinox falls on Thursday, March 20. “Interestingly, due to time zone differences, there hasn’t been a March 21 equinox in mainland United States during the entire 21st ...

Interestingly, this year both Easters — Catholic and Orthodox — fall on the same date, April 20, due to the alignment of the Julian (used by the Orthodox) and Gregorian (followed by Catholics ...

As a result, December 25 in the Julian calendar now corresponds to January 7 in the Gregorian calendar, creating a 13-day difference between the two Christmas celebrations.

As the divide between the Gregorian calendar and the Julian calendar continues to grow, the Orthodox Church in Russia will have to start celebrating Christmas on January 8 in about 75 years.

FROM TOI PRINT EDITION Gregorian calendar is passé, explore splendour, glory January 3, 2025, 7:38 AM IST Speaking Tree in TOI Edit Page, Edit Page, India, TOI Facebook Linkedin ...

Christmas is over, so why are 12 percent of the world’s Christians waiting until January 7 to celebrate? Orthodox Christmas is celebrated by approximately 260 million people worldwide, both in ...