The Calendar
What the atlas records for this date, across the traditions it covers.
Observed On This Date
New year
13 to 15 April, timed to the sun's entry into Aries in the traditional solar calendar.
Day 1 of 3
Commemoration of a person or event
1 Vaisakh: 14 April in the Nanakshahi calendar
Day 1 of 2
13 or 14 April depending on the year.
Already Underway
Feast / celebration
The fifty days from Easter Sunday to Pentecost, kept as a single festal season
Day 5 of 50
Fast / abstinence
The whole of Ramadan, the ninth month
Day 23 of 29
Tabular reckoning, and stored as twenty-nine days so the month can never be reported as running into Eid al-Fitr. The month is twenty-nine or thirty days and begins on a sighted crescent in most communities.
This Week In Business History
Dates for the Hebrew and Islamic calendars are the tabular reckoning, which is what a printed calendar prints. Communities that begin a month on a sighted crescent may differ by a day, and differ from one another by place.