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The Maya calendar is the most elaborate of the Mesoamerican calendars.As the Maya were very good astronomers and observers they had a complex series of calendars, including a Sacred 260-day calendar, called the Tzol'kin, a 365-day calendar called the Haab, and a 52-Haab cycle called the Calendar Round, which synchronised the Tzol'kin and Haab cycles.
There was also a Long Count calendar which started at [0.0.0.0.0] (with Maya record) on August 11, 3114 BC according to the "Goodman, Martinez-Hernandez, and Thompson" correlation (nicknamed "GMT"), the most widely accepted correlation between the Maya and Gregorian calendar. This cycle is 1,872,000 days in length, terminates on the Winter Solstice of ( December 21) AD 20122012 is a leap year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). Events March French Presidential election April 15 100th Anniversay of RMS Titanic Sinking May 20 Annular solar eclipse June 6 Second and last solar transit of the planet Venus of this centur and is designated [13.0.0.0.0] or [0.0.0.0.0], since the Maya believed that timeFor alternate uses of "time", see Time (disambiguation). Time quantifies or measures the interval between events, or the duration of events. Time has long been perceived as a dimension in which each event has a definite (but not necessarily unique) positi is somehow periodical. Another widely-used correlation, that of Lounsbury, correlates the start-day to August 13August 13 is the 225th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (226th in leap years), with 140 days remaining. Events 1500-1899 1521 Tenochtitlan (present day Mexico City) falls to conquistador Hernan Cortes 1704 War of the Spanish Succession: Battle of, 3114 BC and the terminal date to December 23December 23 is the 357th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (358th in leap years). There are 8 days remaining. Events 619 Boniface V becomes Pope 1620 Construction of Plymouth Colony begins 1823 A Visit From St. Nicholas attributed to Clement Clark, AD 2012.
The turn of the great cycle is conjectured to have been of great significance to the Maya, but does not necessarily mark the end of the world.
1 See also:
- Aztec calendarThe Aztec calendar was the calendar of the Aztec people of Pre-Columbian Mexico. It is one of the Mesoamerican calendars, sharing the basic structure of calendars from throughout ancient Mesoamerica. The calendar consisted of a 365 day calendar cycle and
2 External links:
Pre-Hispanic Mesoamerica
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