Francis I is crowned king of France in the cathedral of Reims.
26 January:
Muslims celebrate the Festival of Sacrifice on the tenth day of the month Dhu al-Hijjah.
8 April:
Jews celebrate Pesach for the next seven or eight days.
8 April:
The resurrection of Jesus Christ is celebrated on Easter Sunday after the first full moon after the spring equinox since the Council of Nicaea in 325.
20 May:
An Indian rhinoceros arrives in Lisbon, the first living example in Europe since Roman times, to be immortalized in a drawing by Albrecht Dürer two months later.
27 May:
Seven weeks after Easter Christians celebrate Pentecost, possibly since 68 AD.
5 September:
Sultan Selim I of the Ottoman Empire captures Tabriz, capital of the Safavid empire of Persia.
29 September:
Jews celebrate Yom Kippur since sunset last night.
9 October:
The thirty days of Ramadan in the Islamic year 921 begin at the first sighting of the lunar crescent.
8 November:
Muslims celebrate the Conclusion of the Fast on the first day of the month Shawwal.
15 November:
Thomas Wolsey, archbishop of York and recently appointed Lord Chancellor to king Henry VIII of England, is invested as a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.
The coloured days highlight
births,
deaths,
political,
scientific,
artistic and
other historical milestones, and recurring events such as anniversaries and
holidays.
The new,
waxing,
full and
waning
icons indicate the phases of the moon and appear only for dates in the Gregorian calendar, i.e. after 14 October 1582. The Chinese calendar is available only from 1645 to 2644, the first millenium since the last reform. The coloured columns mark the Sundays, the last day of the week per standard ISO-8601.
Calculating time
The normal calendar page for the current /year?2013 contains an introduction to the intriguing history of the year as we know it. The Calendar Converter has more detail. The so called Perpetual Calendar uses a trick from before the age of computers to find the weekday for any Gregorian date. Also see an overview of all historical events in the last six thousand years.
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,
deaths
,
political
,
artistic
and
other
,
waxing
,
full
and
waning
icons indicate the phases of the moon and appear only for dates in the Gregorian calendar, i.e. after 14 October