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The Bahá’í Calendar |
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Among different peoples and at different times many different
methods have been adopted for the measurement of time
and fixing of dates, and several different calendars are still in
daily use, e.g., the Gregorian in Western Europe, the Julian in
many countries of Eastern Europe, the Hebrew among the
Jews, and the Muḥammadan in Muslim communities.
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The Bahá’í year consists of 19 months of 19 days each (i.e.
361 days), with the addition of certain “Intercalary Days”
(four in ordinary and five in leap years) between the eighteenth
and nineteenth months in order to adjust the calendar
to the solar year. The Báb named the months after the attributes
of God. The Bahá’í New Year, like the ancient Persian
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New Year, is astronomically fixed, commencing at the
March equinox (usually March 21), and the Bahá’í era commences
with the year of the Báb’s declaration (i.e. 1844 A.D.,
1260 A.H.).
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It seems, therefore, fitting that the new age of unity should
have a new calendar free from the objections and associations
which make each of the older calendar unacceptable to large
sections of the world’s population, and it is difficult to see how
any other arrangement could exceed in simplicity and convenience
that proposed by the Báb.
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The months in the Bahá’í Calendar are as follows:
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