The Gregorian Calendar was again ufed on the 1ft of January, 1806, and the French Republican Calendar difcontinued. Calendar of the "Society of Friends." HE "Friends" reckoned their year from the 25th of March, before the year 1752, and January was called the eleventh month. But when the commencement of the year was altered by Statute 24 George II., c. 23, the "Friends" obferved the Act, and called January the first month of the year 1752. The recommendation of the committee appointed to confider what advice should be given to the "Friends" in relation to the Statute in queftion, on the omiffion of eleven days in the Calendar, was, that the "Society of Friends fhould obferve the directions of the Act of Parliament, and omit the faid eleven nominal days; which being approved by the yearly meeting, the report was communicated to the quarterly and monthly meetings of "Friends" in Great Britain, Ireland, and America, and was univerfally adopted by them. The name of the week-day is not used by the "Friends;" but each day is called by its proper number in the following order : Ift day, Sunday. 2nd day, Monday. 3rd day, Tuesday. 114 Calendar of the "Society of Friends." 4th day, Wednesday. 7th day, Saturday. The months being numbered as follows: 1752 and subsequently.* Ift month January Before 1752. Ift month March The year 1751 ceafed with the 10th month, and the year 1752 began with January for the 1ft month. The Golden Numbers* of the Metonic Lunar Cycle, and the Dionyfian Cycle M of 19 years. ETON, the astronomer, was living at Athens, in the first year of the 87th Olympiad [13 July], and then introduced a system by which the date of the Calendar New Moon could be noted by means of numbers one to nineteen; each number ferving to represent a solar year. It was fuppofed that 235 lunations would complete the cycle of 19 folar years, therefore feven lunations were introduced in the Metonic Cycle: For 19 years of 12 lunations would contain but 228 lunations [19 × 12 = 228], this addition of seven thus caufed certain years to have 13 lunations. Before the introduction of the Metonic Cycle, the Greeks had a cycle of 8 years, in which 90 days were intercalated by 22 or 23 days in alternate years. This addition of 90 days in a cycle of 8 years, confifting of Lunar years of 354 days, would have amounted to 11 days to each year [908]: the Romans, therefore, might have poffeffed a correct Calendar if they had followed this plan. * Golden Number, or "Prime." The numbers of the Metonic Cycle obtained the name "Golden," from being written in gold. The "Prime" is only applicable, for the time being, to the number in ufe for the current year. Calippus of Cyzicus invented a cycle four times the period of Meton, all but one day, making up 76 years within a day; and in 330 B.C. it took the place of the Metonic Cycle, which had been found to be incorrect, probably on account of the imperfect folar years adopted for the calculations; for when used with the Julian Calendar, the system of the Metonic Cycle was found fufficiently correct for the Christian Church during more than one thousand years. The continuity of the reckoning of the numbers of the Metonic Cycle, taking each number to represent a year, was disturbed by Pope Hilarius A.D. 463, and afterwards by Dionyfius A.D. 532, but from that time the positions of the numbers remained unchanged until the introduction of the Gregorian Calendar in 1582, when it was neceffary to fhift the numbers to fuit the New Style. [See p. 126.] Table for finding the Golden Numbers commencing 432 years before I A.D. Years less than a hundred. 99 98 97 96 95 94 93 92 91 90 89 88 87 86 85 84 83 82 81 80 79 78 77 76 75 74 73 72 71 70 69 68 67 66 65 64 63 62 61 60 59 58 57 56 55 54 53 52 51 50 49 48 47 46 45 44 43 42 41 40 39 38 37 36 35 34 33 32 31 30 29 28 27 26 25 24 23 22 21 20 19 18 17 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 I Golden Numbers. 15/16 17 18 19 1| 2 3 4 5 10 11 12 13 14 1 151 17 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 8 19 I 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 14 15 16 17 18 19 1 2 3 4 5 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 8 9 10 11 12 11 14 Hundreds of Years B.C. 100 200 300 400 |