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(The Numbers Refer to the Sections.)
Moon, same word = month | 9 |
Moon called the Measurer in old times | 9 |
Moslem year—how computed | 59 |
Movable feasts and the golden number | 66 |
Mundane's eras compared | 30 |
Mussulman's calendar in India and the East, Year of | 99 |
Nabonassur, Era of—history and explanations | 61 |
N. A. Indian's way of counting time | 9 |
Nail, marking year in Rome—details of process | 18 |
New Style, Britain—how it originated | 91 |
New Style attempted in Elizabeth's reign | 78 |
New Style in France—how brought in | 105 |
Niagra, era of, Origin of | 67 |
Night watches of the Jews—how divided | 43 |
Nile, Seasons of Egyptians marked by rising of | 27 |
Nones in Roman months—definitions | 20 |
Non-bisextile centuries—how known | 27 |
Non-Christian reckonings forgotten in general | 2 |
Norse Invasion—how date found | 113 |
Northampton, Treaty of—how dated | 87 |
North American Indians' way of counting time | 8 |
Number, the golden number. Importance of | 57 |
Numa's efforts in chronology | 17 |
Numismatics, English datable | 77 |
Old Style in Scotland, Prevalence of the | 89 |
Old Style and N.S., tabulated | 62 |
Olympiads explained—date of origin | 16 |
Ortolan on Roman history | 17 |
Ortolan's trite saying regarding early Rome | 17 |
Paleography in chronology—its great use | 120 |
Palmyra, Dates on inscriptions in | 63 |
Papal Bulls and Briefs—how they are dated | 29 |
Penult day, Meaning of, in Scottish charters | 87 |
Persian Christmas—what it is meant to honour | 53 |
Persian years. Short account of the | 15 |
Peter the Great and chronology—his Ukase | 64 |
Phoenician chronology—its romantic antiquity | 13 |
Pleiades mark a season to aborigines | 9 |
Pontiffs in ancient Rome—how they falsified the calendar | 18 |
Printing in China, Dates of | 10 |
Proclamation, British dates of, explained | 95 |
Proclamation, U.S.A.—how given | 67 |
Ptolemy and astronomical records, Uses of | 61 |