Handbook of Dates - For Students of British History

A Handbook of Dates provides in clear, user-friendly form, tables which allow the calculation of the dates (and days) on which historical events fell or will fall, from AD 500 to 2100. This updated edition includes revised introductions and extra tables, making this an essential reference tool for working historians. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface to the new edition; Preface to the original edition (1945); 1. Reckonings of time; 2. Rulers of England and regnal years; 3. List of Popes; 4. Saints' days and festivals used in dating; 5. Legal chronology; 6. The Roman calendar; 7. Celtic and Roman (Alexandrian) Easter Days, AD 400?8; 8. Calendars for all possible dates of Easter AD 400?00; 9. Easter Days according to old style, AD 400?52; 10. Easter Days according to new style, AD 1583?00; 11. The English calendar for 1752; 12. Dates of adoption of Gregorian calendar in Europe; 13. The French Revolutionary calendar; Index.

Product details

• Authors: C. R. Cheney, C.r. Jones Cheney
• Assisted by: C. R. Cheney (Editor), C.R. Cheney (Editor), Michael Jones (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.04.2000
• EAN: 9780521778459
• ISBN: 978-0-521-77845-9
• No. of pages: 268
• Series: Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks; Royal Historical Society Guide; Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works