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The monks of the Towers of Hanoi of the Benares Temple finish composing the Tower of Brahman (if they were fast enough to move one disk per second on average) and the Universe according to the Hindus ends.

End of the current European-American Epoch according to Rudolf Steiner. Anthroposophy has its own concept of history: according to Rudolf Steiner our current epoch falls in the post-Atlantean period, since in his view the disaster that is said to have struck Atlantis in 7227 BC

End of the current cycle of the Julian calendar (Julian date) introduced by Scaligero; in our calendar in reality the date will not coincide due to the changes introduced in the same

Despite all his warnings and intentions to look only to the past, in the last years of his life, Isaac Newton cannot resist the temptation to extend his gaze to the moment of the Last Judgement with this feeble justification: “I indicate this period of

Online publication of this chronology on cronologia-universale.it (previously distributed with excel files via email from 1997 to 2019).

End of the First Great Mayan Cycle. In practice, the 13th baktun ends; according to some Mayan writings, it is an “important” period. The baktun is a cycle of 144,000 days (a little more than 394 years). The first baktun began on August 11, 3114

End of the world according to Pico della Mirandola in his “900 Theses”; in 1486 he wrote: “If it is allowed to man to conjecture about the last times, we can find, through the most secret ways of the cabala, that the consummation of the

In China, the traditional calendar is formally abolished

The British Empire abandons the Julian calendar in favor of the Gregorian one. The operation causes the calendar to jump, precisely, from September 2 to 14 directly.

Josephus Justus Scaliger invented the Julian calendar (Julian day) still used in astronomy and called it “Julian” from the name of his father: Julius Scaliger; it is a cycle of 7980 years without leap years or added or removed days; it starts at 12AM on

Period of time cancelled by Pope Gregory XIII to realign the Catholic calendar with the celestial one

The “Inter gravissimas” bull of the Gregorian calendar comes into force

Pope Leo X asks Paul of Fossombrone to contact Copernicus to ask for his opinion on the reform of the ecclesiastical calendar; the latter takes care to provide as complete an answer as possible and writes to the following pope (Pope Paul III, the same

Beginning of the current European-American Epoch according to Rudolf Steiner. Anthroposophy has its own concept of history: according to Rudolf Steiner our current epoch falls in the post-Atlantean period, because in his view the disaster that is said to have struck Atlantis in 7227 BC

Herman the Cripple Suspects a Difference Between the Church Calendar and the Celestial Calendar

Dionysius Exiguus calculates the date of Christ’s birth on December 25, 531 years earlier (previously the calendar referred to 284 AD: 1st year of the reign of Diocletian)

The Roman Emperor Constantine introduced the seven-day week with Sunday as the first day; each day was dedicated to a planet (there were seven and the Sun and Moon were believed to be planets)

New reference of the Roman calendar: I year of the Era of Diocletian or of the Martyrs (previously the calendar referred to 753 BC: foundation of Rome) still in use among the Copts of Upper Egypt

(the year 0 AD or 0 BC does not exist)

annus confusionis: 445 days. Caesar moves the New Year from the spring equinox to January 1st, introduces leap years and 12 months of 30 – 31 alternating days (with February of 29 – 30)

The Julian calendar is born

The beginning of the Roman year is brought forward from March 1st to January 1st

Babylon: the seven-day week was born by uniting with a 7-pointed star the planets of the Solar System as it was known at the time: Moon (lune-di’ or mon-day), Mercury (mercole-di’), Venus (vener-di’), Sun (sun-day), Mars (marte-di’), Jupiter (giove-di’), Saturn (satur-day) and Earth in the

King Numa (Roman) adds Januarius and Februarius to the calendar and becomes 12 months (354 days)

New Roman Calendar Reference: Foundation of Rome (Ab Urbe Condita)

Roman Calendar of Romulus: 10 lunar months: 304 days Birth of the months of Martis, Aprilis, Maius, Junius. New reference of the Roman calendar: foundation of Rome

Shang Dynasty in China: first proven use of the lunisolar calendar (12 or 13 months of 29 or 30 days); the days are independently counted sexagesimal, according to a tradition of the third millennium BC 10 tiangan (heavenly trunks), 12 dizhi (earthly branches), 60 ganzhi

Stonehenge: Solstice Prediction

Current Great Mayan Cycle begins (13 batkun*20katuns(144000gg)*20tuns(7200gg)*18minals(360gg)*20kins(20gg))

Start of the Jewish calendar (New Year’s is the first new moon of September, being a lunar calendar)

The Egyptians already use a 365-day solar calendar (12×30+5 added by Toth)

At 12:00 on January 1st, the Julian calendar invented by Scaliger in 1583 AD, still used for convenience in astronomy, begins; on this date, the 28-year cycle of the solar calendar begins (after 28 years the calendar repeats itself), the lunar Metonic cycle (19 years)

Anthroposophy has its own concept of history: according to Rudolf Steiner our present epoch falls in the post-Atlantean period, since in his view the disaster that is said to have struck Atlantis in 7227 BC is a significant turning point in human history. This post-Atlantean