THE

AMERICAN ALMANAC,

FOR

1845.

PART I.

THE

AMERICAN ALMANAC,

FOR THE YEAR

1845,

Being the latter part of the 69th, and the beginning of the 70th, year of the Independence of the United States of America;

the 6558th year of the Julian Period;

the latter part of the 5605th and the beginning of the 5606th, year since the creation of the world, according to the Jews;

the 2598th year (according to Varro) since the foundation
of Rome;

the 2592d year since the era of Nabonassar, which has been
assigned to Wednesday, the 26th of February of the 3967th
year of the Julian Period, which corresponds, according to
the chronologists, to the 747th, and, according to the as-
tronomers, to the 746th year, before the birth of Christ;
the 2621st year of the Olympiads, or the first year of the
656th Olympiad, beginning in July, 1843, if we fix the
era of the Olympiads at 775 years before Christ, or at or
about the beginning of July of the year 3938 of the Julian
Period;

the latter part of the 1260th, and the beginning of the 1261st
year (of twelve lunations) since the Hegira, or flight of
Mahomet, which, as is generally supposed, took place on
the 16th of July, in the year 662 of the Christian era.

d Conjunction, or having the same Longitude or Right Ascension. Quadrature, or differing 90° in

8 Opposition, or

180° in

The ascending, U the descending node.

The sign is prefixed to the latitude, or declination, of the Sun, or other heavenly body, when north, and the sign when south; but the former prefixed to the hourly motion of the Moon in latitude, indicates that she is approaching, and the latter that she is receding from, the north pole of the ecliptic.

The letters M. A., m. a., denote Morning and Afternoon.

"north of Equator, (Spring and Summer) 186 11 10 9

"south of 66

(Winter and Autumn) 178 18 45 49

Length of the tropical year, commencing

at the winter solstice, 1843, and termi- 365 5 55 58 nating at the winter solstice, 1844,

Mean or average length of the tropical year, 365 5 48 48

[The anniversaries marked with an asterisk (*) are to be strictly observed.]