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THE

AMERICAN ALMANAC,

FOR

1851.

PART I.

THE

AMERICAN ALMANAC,

FOR THE

YEAR

1851,

Being the latter part of the 75th, and the beginning of the 76th year

of the Independence of the United States of America ; the 6564th year of the Julian Period; the latter part of the 5611th, and the beginning of the 5612th

year since the creation of the world, according to the Jews; the 2604th year (according to Varro) since the foundation of

Rome; the 2598th year since the era of Nabonassar, which has been as

signed 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 astron

omers, to the 746th year before the birth of Christ ;
the 2627th year of the Olympiads, or the third year of the 657th

Olympiad, beginning in July, 1849, if we fix the era of the
Olympiads at 7754 years before Christ, or at or about the

beginning of July of the year 3938 of the Julian Period;
the latter part of the 1267th, and the beginning of the 1268th

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 622 of the Christian era.

1. CALENDAR AND CELESTIAL PHENOMENA FOR

THE YEAR.

SIGNS OF THE PLANETS, &c.
The Sun.

Mars.

4 Jupiter. The Earth.

Vesta.

h Saturn. DOC The Moon. Juno.

HI Herschel or Uranus. & Mercury.

Pallas.

Neptune. • Venus.

Ceres.

* A fixed star. ó Conjunction, or having the same Longitude or Right Ascension. o Quadrature, or differing 90° in 8 Opposition, or differing 180° in

The ascending, Y 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.

CHRONOLOGICAL CYCLES.

Dominical Letter,
Epact,

28 Roman Indiction, Lunar Cycle, or Golden Number, 9 Julian Period, .

9 6564

h. m.
Sun enters 3 (Winter begins) 1850, Dec. 21st, 10 31 41 A.

go (Spring 1851, March 20th, 11 47 21 A.
go (Summer

June 21st,

8 35 12 A. 1 (Autumn

Sept. 23d, 10 42 56 M. y (Winter

Dec. 22d, 4 18 54 M.

Mean Time at Washing. ton Observatory.

h. m.

d. Sun in the Winter signs,

89 1 15 40 Spring

92 20 47 51 Summer"

93 14 7 44 Autumn «

89 17 35 58 north of Equator, (Spring and Summer,) 186 10 55 35 south of

(Winter and Autumn,) 178 18 51 38 Length of the tropical year, commencing at

the winter solstice, 1850, and terminating > 365 5 47 13 Mean or average length of the tropical year, 365 5 48 48

MOVABLE FESTIVALS OF THE CHURCH IN 1851. Septuagesima Sunday, Feb. 16th | Rogation Sunday,

May 25th Quinq. or Shrove Sunday, Mar. 2d Ascen. Day, or Holy Th., May 29th Ash Wed., Lent begins, Mar. 5th Whitsunday, or Pentecost, June 8th Mid-Lent Sunday, Mar. 30th Trinity Sunday,

June 15th Palm Sunday,

June 19th Sunday,

Fête Dieu, Low Sunday,

April 27th Advent Sunday, Nov. 30th

April 20th Cerpulbichristi Day,}

JEWISH CALENDAR.