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Ethiopian Calendar from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia Ethiopian calendar From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Ethiopian calendar (Amharic: የኢትዮጵያ ዘመን አቆጣጠር?; yä'Ityoṗṗya zämän aḳoṭaṭär) is the principal calendar used in Ethiopia and also serves as the liturgical year for Christians in Eritrea and Ethiopia belonging to the Orthodox Tewahedo Churches, Eastern Catholic Churches and Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria. It is a solar calendar which in turn derives from the Egyptian Calendar, but like the Julian Calendar, it adds a leap day every four years without exception, and begins the year on August 29th or August 30th in the Julian Calendar. A gap of 7–8 years between the Ethiopian and Gregorian Calendars results from an alternate calculation in determining the date of the Annunciation. Like the Coptic calendar, the Ethiopic calendar has 12 months of 30 days plus 5 or 6 epagomenal days, which comprise a thirteenth month. The Ethiopian months begin on the same days as those of the Coptic calendar, but their names are in Ge'ez. The 6th epagomenal day is added every 4 years, without exception, on August 29 of the Julian calendar, 6 months before the corresponding Julian leap day. Thus the first day of the Ethiopian year, 1 Mäskäräm, for years between 1900 and 2099 (inclusive), is usually September 11 (Gregorian). It, however, falls on September 12 in years before the Gregorian leap year. In the Gregorian Calendar Year 2015; the Ethiopian Calendar Year 2008 began on the 12th September (rather than the 11th of September) on account of this additional epagomenal day occurring every 4 years. Contents 1 New Year's Day 2 Eras 2.1 Era of Martyrs 2.2 Anno Mundi according to Panodoros 2.3 Anno Mundi according to Anianos 3 Leap year cycle 4 Months 5 References 6 Sources 7 External links New Year's Day Enkutatash is the word for the Ethiopian New Year in Amharic, the official language of Ethiopia, while it is called Ri'se Awde Amet ("Head Anniversary") in Ge'ez, the term preferred by the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church. It occurs on September 11th in the Gregorian Calendar; except for the year following a leap year, when it occurs on September 12th. The Ethiopian Calendar Year 1998 Amätä Məhrät ("Year of Mercy") began on the Gregorian Calendar Year on September 11th, 2005. However, the Ethiopian Years 1992 and 1996 began on the Gregorian Dates of 'September 12th 1999' and '2003' A building in downtown Addis Ababa, respectively. Ethiopia, sports bunting in the Ethiopian This date correspondence applies for the Gregorian years 1900 to 2099. national colors of green, yellow and red to mark the Ethiopian Millennium on The Ethiopian leap year is every four without exception, while 11 September 2007. Gregorian centurial years are only leap years when exactly divisible by 400; thus a set of corresponding dates will most often apply for a single century. As the Gregorian year 2000 is a leap year, the current correspondence lasts two centuries instead. Eras To indicate the year, Ethiopians and followers of the Eritrean churches today use the Incarnation Era, which dates from the Annunciation or Incarnation of Jesus on March 25, 9 AD (Julian), as calculated by Annianus of Alexandria c. 400; thus its first civil year began 7 months earlier on August 29, AD 8. Meanwhile, Europeans eventually adopted the calculations made by Dionysius Exiguus in AD 525 instead, which placed the Annunciation 8 years earlier than had Annianus. This causes the Ethiopian year number to be 8 years less than the Gregorian year number from January 1 until September 10 or 11, then 7 years less for the remainder of the Gregorian year. In the past, a number of other eras for numbering years were also widely used in Ethiopia and the Kingdom of Aksum. Era of Martyrs The most important era — once widely used by the Eastern Christianity, and still used by the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria — was the Era of Martyrs, also known as the Diocletian Era, or the era of Diocletian and the Martyrs, whose first year began on August 29, 284. 1 Respective to the Gregorian and Julian New Year's Days, 3 ⁄2 to 4 months later, the difference between the Era of Martyrs and the Anni Domini is 285 years (285= 15×19). This is because in AD 525, Dionysius Exiguus decided to add 15 Metonic cycles to the existing 13 Metonic cycles of the Diocletian Era (15×19 + 13×19 = 532) to obtain an entire 532 year medieval Easter cycle, whose first cycle ended with the year Era of Martyrs 247 (= 13×19) equal to year DXXXI. It is also because 532 is the product of the Metonic cycle of 19 years and the solar cycle of 28 years. Anno Mundi according to Panodor os Around AD 400, an Alexandrine monk called Panodoros fixed the Alexandrian Era (Anno Mundi = in the year of the world), the date of creation, on 29 August 5493 BC. After the 6th century AD, the era was used by Egyptian and Ethiopian chronologists. The twelfth 532 year-cycle of this era began on 29 August AD 360, and so 4×19 years after the Era of Martyrs. Anno Mundi according to Anianos Bishop Anianos preferred the Annunciation style as New Year's Day, 25 March (see above). Thus he shifted the Panodoros era by about six months, to begin on 25 March 5492 BC. In the Ethiopian calendar this was equivalent to 15 Magabit 5501 B.C. (E.C.).[1] The Anno Mundi era remained in usage until the late 19th century.[2] Leap year cycle The 4 year leap-year cycle is associated with the four Evangelists: the first year after an Ethiopian leap year is named the John-year, followed by the Matthew-year, and then the Mark-year. The year with the 6th epagomenal day is traditionally designated as the Luke-year. There are no exceptions to the 4 year leap-year cycle, like the Julian calendar but unlike the Gregorian calendar. Months Ge'ez, Amharic, and Julian Gregorian Gregorian Start Date Tigrinya (Old Start Date Coptic in Year after Ethiopian (with Amharic suffixes in Calendar) [From March 1900 to Leap Day parentheses) Start Date February 2100] Mäskäräm (መስከረም) Tut (Thout) August 29 September 11 September 12 September Ṭəqəmt(i) (ጥቅምት) Babah (Paopi) October 11 October 12 28 Ḫədar (ኅዳር) Hatur (Hathor) October 28 November 10 November 11 November Taḫśaś ( ታኅሣሥ) Kiyahk (Koiak) December 10 December 11 27 December Ṭərr(i) (ጥር) Tubah (Tobi) January 9 January 10 27 Yäkatit (Tn. Läkatit) (የካቲት) Amshir (Meshir) January 26 February 8 February 9 Baramhat February Mägabit (መጋቢት) March 10 March 10 (Paremhat) 25 Baramundah Miyazya (ሚያዝያ) March 27 April 9 April 9 (Parmouti) Bashans Gənbo (t) (ግንቦት) April 26 May 9 May 9 (Pashons) Säne (ሰኔ) Ba'unah (Paoni) May 26 June 8 June 8 Ḥamle (ሐምሌ) Abib (Epip) June 25 July 8 July 8 Nähase (ነሐሴ) Misra (Mesori) July 25 August 7 August 7 Ṗagʷəmen/Ṗagume (ጳጐሜን/ Nasi (Pi Kogi August 24 September 6 September 6 ጳጉሜ) Enavot) These dates are valid only from March 1900 to February 2100. This is because 1900 and 2100 are not leap years in the Gregorian calendar, while they are still leap years in the Ethiopian calendar, meaning dates before 1900 and after 2100 will be offset. References 1. "Ring in the New" (http://www.ethio.nl/ethio_country/ethio_calendar4.html). 10 September 2004. Retrieved 8 February 2017. 2. "Walters Ms. W.850, Ethiopian Gospels" (http://thedigitalwalters.org/Data/WaltersManuscripts/html/W85 0/description.html). Retrieved 8 February 2017. "Church of Madhane Alam in Majate, 1892-1893, known from the endnote on fol. 95r, which gives a record in Amharic of a land grant to the church of Mǝğäte Mädḫane ‛Aläm, enacted in the Year of Matthew, 7385 Anno Mundi (= 1885 EC = 1892– 1893 AD)" Sources "The Ethiopian Calendar", Appendix IV, C.F. Beckingham and G.W.B. Huntingford, The Prester John of the Indies (Cambridge: Hakluyt Society, 1961). Ginzel, Friedrich Karl, "Handbuch der mathematischen und technischen Chronologie", Leipzig, 3 vol., 1906-1914 External links Ethiopian Calendar App for Mobile Phones Ethiopian Calendar App for Android Phones On Play Store by EthioLab Ethiopian calendar year by year Interactive Ethiopian Calendar Ethiopian Calendar Converter Ethiopian Perpetual Calendar Software Ethiopian Calendar By Mengistu Yeshiwas An Open Letter to His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI by Aberra Molla Jquery Ethiopian Calendar Date Picker Ethiopian Calendar .Net Library Ethiopian Calendar Nuget Package Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ethiopian_calendar&oldid=794959141" This page was last edited on 11 August 2017, at 03:04. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization..
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