The Jewish Calendar
A small almanac-style filler item converting the year 1876 into the Hebrew, Julian, Roman, Olympic, and Byzantine calendars — the kind of curious trivia newspapers once used to fill odd corners of a page.
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Burlington Weekly Free Press · February 25, 1876 · Page 1
1 min readThe year 1876 is the latter part of the 5636th, and the beginning of the 5637th, since the creation of the world, according to the Jews. It answers to the 6569th of the Julian Period, the 8629th from the foundation of Rome, the 8383rd year of the Olympiads, and the year 7384-85 of the Byzantine era.
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