The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 47
The Calendar
The Calendar.
Golden Number | 18 |
Epact | 7 |
Solar Cycle | 12 |
Dominical Letter | E. |
Roman Indiction | 7 |
Julian Period | 6592 |
Fixed and Moveable Festivals, Anniversaries, &c.
New Year's Day | Jan. | 1 |
Epiphany (*) | Jan. | 6 |
Septuagesima | Feb. | 9 |
Sexagesima | Feb. | 16 |
Quinquagesima | Feb. | 23 |
Ash Wednesday | Feb. | 23 |
St. David | March | 1 |
St. Patrick | March | 17 |
Annunciation (*) | March | 25 |
Palm Sunday | April | 6 |
Good Friday | April | 11 |
Easter Monday | April | 13 |
Low Sunday | April | 20 |
Rogation Sunday | May | 13 |
St. George | May | 21 |
Ascension Sunday (*) | May | 21 |
Queen Victoria—Birthday, 1819 May | May | 21 |
Whit Sunday | June | 1 |
Trinity Sunday | June | 8 |
Corpus Christi | June | 12 |
Queen Victoria—Accession | June | 20 |
Queen Victoria proclaimed | June | 21 |
St. John Baptist | June | 21 |
St. Peter and St. Paul (*) | June | 29 |
Dominion Day | July | 1 |
St. Michael | Sept. | 29 |
All Saints' Day (*) | Nov. | 1 |
Prince of Wales Birthday | Nov. | 9 |
St. Andrews | Nov. | 30 |
First Sunday in Advent | Nov. | 30 |
Conception of St. Mary | Dec. | 8 |
St Thomas | Dec. | 21 |
Christmas Day | Dec. | 25 |
St. John the Evangelist | Dec. | 27 |
The only legal holidays in the Province of Ontario are New Year's Day, Christmas Day, Good Friday, Easter Monday, the Queen's Birthday, and any day set apart by proclamation.
In the Province of Quebec feasts and anniversaries marked with an asterisk (*) are also legal holidays; also days proclaimed for Thanksgiving.
The year 5610 of the Jewish Era commences on September 19, 1879.
The year 1236 of the Mohammedan Era commences on January 28, 1879.
The 43rd year of Queen Victoria's reign commences on June 20th, 1879.
The 13th year of the Dominion of Canada commences July 1, 1879.
The 104th year of the Independence of the United States commences July 4, 1879.
On pp. 6, 7, 8 of the Calendar are given the local civil times at which the upper limb of the sun appears to rise and set at a central station in lat. 45° N., and long, 4h. 46m. W, allowance for refraction having been applied to the true times of rising and setting.
The times of sunset in any latitude from lat. 42° to lat 50°, may be found with sufficient accuracy, by applying with their proper signs, the correction given in the following table.
The same corrections, with their signs changed, are applicable for finding the times of sunrise
The Moon.
The times at which the moon rises and sets, are given for every day in the year. They are computed for the moon's centre, and those on pp. 6, 7, 8, for a station in lat. 5°, and long. 46h. 4m. W. The correc- page 4 tions for latitude to be applied to the times of setting given in pp. 6, 7, 8, of the Calendar, in order to find the times at which the Moon sets at other stations, may be found approximately from lat. 42° to lat. 48°, by multiplying the number in the adjoining column by the numbers of degrees by which the latitude exceeds 5°. If the latitude be less than 45°, the signs of the corrections must be charged The corrections for latitude 49½ and 50° will be more near the truth, if the multipliers (which according to the preceding rule, would be 4 and 5) be taken as 4½ and 5½.
The corrections for latitude to be applied to the times of rising are the same as those used for setting, but with the signs changed
In strictness, two corrections for longitude are required.—one due to the motion of the moon in Right Ascension during the interval that elapses between her rising for setting) at stations in different-longitudes; and the other due to the change in the moon's declination during the fame interval The average value of the first of these corrections is about two minutes to be added for each hour or for each fifteen degrees of longitude west of the central meridian, 4h. 46m.; the corrections being substracted when the place is to the east of the central meridian
The correct ion for change of declaration maybe disregarded.
The last column in each month on pp. 6. 7, 8, shows the time to which a watch should be set when the sun is due south, or when the shadow falls on the noon mark of a sun dial.
The times of the rising and setting of the sun and moon on pp. 6, 7, 8, without modification, will serve with sufficient exactness for Halifax, Montreal and Ottawa; and by the rules given above they may be adapted to all other stations. On pp. 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, special tables are also given, showing the local civil times at which the sun and moon rise and set at Toronto and Fort Garry, two extreme stations as regards latitude.
Sovereigns of Europe, &c.
State. | Sovereigns and their Titles. | Date of Birth. | Accession. |
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Austria | Francis Joseph I., Emperor of | 18 Aug. 1830 | 2 Dec. 1848 |
Baden | Frederick, Grand Duke of | 9 Sept. 1825 | 5 Sept. 1856 |
Bavaria | Louis II, King of. | 25 Aug. 1845 | 10 Mar. 1861 |
Belgium | Leopold II., King of. | 9 April, 1835 | 10 Dec. 1865 |
Brazil | Pedro II, Emperor of. | 2 Dec. 1825 | 7 April 1831 |
Denmark | Christian IX., King of | 8 April, 1818 | 15 Nov. 1863 |
Egypt | Ismail Pasha, Khedive | 26 Nov. 1816 | 18 Jan. 1863 |
Franco | Marshal MacMahon, President | 13 July, 1808 | —May 1873 |
Germany | William I., Emperor of | 22 Mar. 1797 | 18 Jan. 1871 |
Great Britain | Victoria, Queen of | 24 May, 1819 | 20 June 1847 |
Greece | George I King of the Greeks | 24 Dec. 1845 | 6 June 1863 |
Hesse Darmstadt | Louis III., Grand Duke of | June, 1806 | 16 June 1848 |
Holland | William III, King of | 19 Feb. 1817 | 17 Mar. 1849 |
Italy | Humburt, King or | 1877 | |
Mecklenburg Schwerin | Frederic Frances, Grand Duke of | 28 Feb. 1823 | 7 Mar. 1812 |
Mecklenburg Strelitz | Frederic William, Grand Duke of | 17 Oct. 1819 | 6 Sept. 1860 |
Oldenburg | Nicolas, Grand Duke of. | 8 July 1827 | 27 Feb. 1853 |
Persia | Nasr-ed-dean, Shah | 1830 | —Oct. 1848 |
Portugal | Louis I, King of | 31 Oct. 1838 | 11 Nov. 1861 |
Rome | Loe XIII., Pope | 20 Feb. 1878 | |
Russia | Alexander II. Emperor of | 29 April 1848 | 22 Mar. 1855 |
Saxe Coburg and Gotha | Ernest II, Duke of | 21 June 1818 | 29 Jan. 1844 |
Saxe Meiningen | George, Duke of. | 2 April 1826 | 20 Sept. 1866 |
Saxe Weimar | Charles Alex'der. Grand Duke of | 24 June 1818 | 8 July 1853 |
Saxony | Albert, King of | 23 April 1828 | 29 Oct. 1873 |
Spain | Alfonso I | 28 Nov. 1857 | 31 Dec 1874 |
Sweden and Norway. | Oscar II., King of | 21 Jan. 1829 | 18 Sept. 1872 |
Turkey | Abdul Hamid II, Sultan of | 22 Sept. 1842 | 31 Aug. 1876 |
United States(America | Ruth'ford B. Hayes, President of | 4 Mar. 1877 | |
Wurtemburg | Charles I., King of | 6 Mar. 1823. | 25 June 1864 |