The Peace on The Horizon - 75 Years after The World War 2 in the Middle East (119)

 

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Chapter 5: Two calendars (Gregorian & Hijri)

 

119 Before or after Hijri 1400 (Gregorian 1980) (1/5)

Hijri which started on July 16, 622 AD celebrated 1^st of Muharram, 1400 on November 21, 1979 AD. It was the last year of the 14th century of Hijri. The 14th century of Hijri started on November 12, 1882 AD. The year of Hijri is shorter than 11 days compared with the Gregorian calendar. The length of one century of Hijri, therefore, is three years shorter than Gregorian.

 

Before the 19^th century AD, ordinary citizen in the Western countries believed the superstition that there would be various disasters at the end of one century. But in the age of modern science of the 20th century, such superstition had gone away. There was a small noise that the computer might be troubled by "Year 2000 problem" when the time passed away from December 31^st,1999 to January 1^st, 2000.

 

(To be continued ----)

 

 

Areha Kazuya

(From an ordinary citizen in the cloud)