10 countries that abandoned the usual calendar

North Korea, Ethiopia, India, Iran and Afghanistan and a number of other countries and nationalities refused to recognize the calendar, in which 365 days a year!

Humanity no longer represents its existence without the invented in 1582 the Gregorian calendar, in which four seasons and 365 days. On this system of chronology, every inhabitant of the Earth stumbles during the preparation of documents, employment, attendance of studies and even during the use of gadgets and the selection of products with a shelf life. The more surprising is the fact that on our planet there are countries or individual nations that abandoned the usual calendar in favor of another (sometimes very strange!) Variant of counting the days in a year ...

USA

To conclude that America uses the usual Gregorian calendar, you do not need to open a visa - just watch news or Hollywood movies. The more surprising is the fact that many agricultural states, in which, as we know, conservative Americans live, have their own communities, where the Julian calendar still exists - the system of calculus created in honor of Julius Caesar in 45 BC. The duration of the Julian year is 365.25 days, which creates confusion in the documents of local authorities. The first day of the month is called calend, and the last day is called id.

North Korea

The most closed and frightening state of modernity in everything is trying to prove to other countries its dissimilarity in them. Its inhabitants developed their own calendar and called it the "Juche chronology". It was put into effect on July 8, 1997. The starting point in it is the year of birth of Kim Il Sung, the founder of the North Korean state - 1912. In international documents, it is allowed to indicate in brackets a year in the Gregorian calendar - for example, 106 (2017).

Taiwan

In the territories controlled by the Republic of China, the Mingo calendar was introduced at the beginning of the 20th century. As in the case of the Juche calendar, the first year was 1912 - so decided the ruling Kuomintang party, which then seized power. In 1949, the regime changed, China withdrew the occupation from foreign lands, but the inhabitants of the island of Taiwan were tired of leapfrogging with the calendars and decided to keep the Mingo calendar. Today only children in school can be counted according to the classical Gregorian method of calculation.

India

The people of India, like the people of Taiwan, do not like to change the state calendar system. But in 1954 it was India that supported France and the Soviet Union in creating the project of the world calendar of Armelin. It was approved by the UN: the new system assumed four quarters for 91 days and was to become a worldwide one. Unfortunately, all but the Indian states of Rajasthan, Haryana and Bihar have forgotten about the development. In all other parts of India, it is forbidden to bring religious organizations into circulation.

Sovereign States of India

In the same state, several regions (West Bengal, Assam and Tripura) achieved independence from the country's leadership by creating their own legislative system. It lists the calendar according to the solar calendar, which is also called Bengali. It is dedicated to King Shashank, ruling in India in the VI century. The calendar is divided into six seasons - dry, winter, spring, rainy, autumn and summer, each of which is only two months.

Autonomy of Tibet

In the west of China, there is an independent Tibet region, which the Chinese themselves call Sichang. The monasteries of Tibet many centuries ago agreed to create a lunisolar calendar based on a tropical year of 13 months. All of them begin with a new moon: this is the year called Losar. The days of the week bear the names of celestial bodies: Monday - Moon, Tuesday - Mars, Wednesday - Mercury, Thursday - Jupiter, Friday - Venus, Saturday - Saturn and Sunday - Sun.

Ethiopia

The Orthodox church in Ethiopia achieved the introduction of a mixed calendar based on the Alexandrian and the ancient Egyptian. The beginning of the year in it comes on August 30 or August 29, if the year was a leap year. Five or six days at the end of December are allocated in the 13th month, which is at once three church holidays. The Ethiopian calendar is the only calendar in the world in which the day begins not at midnight, but after the sun rises.

Nepal

In the Himalayas is the state of Nepal, bordering on India and Tibet, taking as the basis of the days count the ancient chronology of the Vikram-samvat, introduced by the Emperor Vikramaditya. Even the Nepalese themselves do not always know how many days there will be in the next month, but their approximate number varies between 29 and 35 days. In different years in the same month in Nepal can be 3, 4 or even 5 weeks.

Ireland

In Ireland, as in Orthodox countries, you can find their "Old Believers" who believe in Celtic gods. Radical Irishmen use the ancient chronology, in which the days of the solstice and the equinox are considered to be the main center of the seasons. The spring equinox is considered the middle of spring, and the winter solstice is called the middle of winter. With Samayna (the night from October 31 to November 1), the "dark" time of the year begins, and from Beltein (May 1) - "light", i.e. summer.

Iran and Afghanistan

The official calendar in these countries was developed by Omar Khayyam, but almost every year it is undergoing new changes. It is called the "Solar Hijra": the beginning of the year is the day of the vernal equinox, when Navruz is celebrated. The year is divided into six seasons and enters into one of the two --H or shahânsha.. They alternate according to the decree of the ruler, but the last of them has been in effect since 1312 to this day.