Julian calendar

calendar introduced by Julius Caesar in 45 BC
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Julian calendar

Summary

Julian calendar is a solar calendar[1]. It draws 2,176 Wikipedia views per month (solar_calendar category, ranking #1 of 4).[2]

Key Facts

  • Julian calendar is the creator of Sosigenes of Alexandria[3].
  • Julian calendar's instance of is recorded as solar calendar[4].
  • Julian calendar's instance of is recorded as arithmetic calendar[5].
  • Julian calendar's instance of is recorded as interval scale[6].
  • Julius Caesar is named after Julian calendar[7].
  • Julian calendar's GND ID is recorded as 4318310-4[8].
  • Julian calendar's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85018840[9].
  • Julian calendar's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 11952376f[10].
  • Julian calendar's subclass of is recorded as calendar system[11].
  • Julian calendar's Commons category is recorded as Julian calendars[12].
  • Julian calendar's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 61992[13].
  • Julian calendar's has part is recorded as Julian dominical cycle[14].
  • Julian calendar's has part is recorded as month[15].
  • Julian calendar's has part is recorded as calendar year[16].
  • Julian calendar's has part is recorded as week[17].
  • Julian calendar's has part is recorded as day[18].
  • -0045-00-00T00:00:00Z marks the founding of Julian calendar[19].
  • Julian calendar's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/03_n6[20].
  • Julian calendar's NL CR AUT ID is recorded as ph909990[21].
  • Julian calendar's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Julian calendar[22].
  • Julian calendar's Commons gallery is recorded as Julian calendar[23].
  • Julian calendar's National Library of Spain SpMaBN ID is recorded as XX558693[24].
  • Julian calendar's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300404468[25].
  • Julian calendar's Dewey Decimal Classification is recorded as 529.42[26].
  • Julian calendar's location of creation is recorded as Roman Empire[27].

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Works and Contributions

Julian calendar is the creator of Sosigenes of Alexandria[3]. Things named for it include Revised Julian Calendar[28], a calendar system[29].

Why It Matters

Julian calendar draws 2,176 Wikipedia views per month (solar_calendar category, ranking #1 of 4).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[30] It is known by 19 alternative names across languages and contexts.[31]

Entities named for it include Revised Julian Calendar[28], a calendar system[29].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] . wikidata.org.
  4. [7] . wikidata.org.
  5. [3] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . Library of Congress. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . RAMEAU. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . A Short History of Astronomy. wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . Biblioteca Nacional de España. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . Integrated Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [28] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [30] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [31] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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