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''Wood Rat'' is the 1st combination of the sexagenary cycle of the Chinese zodiac. Years of the Wood Rat The year in which the Western calendar year is divided by 60 and the year with an excess of 4 is the year of the Wood Rat. Overview It was four years after the year of the Metal Rooster, the year of the Revolution of the Dynasty changeover, and was considered the year of the ''revolutionary decree'', or the year of many upheavals, when the Tian will is renewed and heavenly commands are given to those who possess virtue (Kouji kaihatsu '). In order to prevent this, the new year has often been held in this year since the Heian period in Japan. Since the Koshi Reform of 1024, the only year prior to the Meiji era (when the reign of the first emperor was abolished with the decree of Issei Ichigen) in which there was no Koshi Reform was in Eiroku7 (1564).。 Emperor Emperor Kanmu was also the son of Tenchi, who ascended to the throne after the Tenmu lineage was severed by th ...
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Sexagenary Cycle
The sexagenary cycle, also known as the Stems-and-Branches or ganzhi ( zh, 干支, gānzhī), is a cycle of sixty terms, each corresponding to one year, thus a total of sixty years for one cycle, historically used for recording time in China and the rest of the East Asian cultural sphere. It appears as a means of recording days in the first Chinese written texts, the Shang dynasty, Shang oracle bones of the late second millennium BC. Its use to record years began around the middle of the 3rd century BC. The cycle and its variations have been an important part of the traditional calendrical systems in Chinese-influenced Asian states and territories, particularly those of Japanese calendar, Japan, Korean calendar, Korea, and Vietnamese calendar, Vietnam, with the old Chinese system still in use in Taiwanese calendar, Taiwan, and to a lesser extent, in Mainland China. This traditional method of numbering days and years no longer has any significant role in modern Chinese time-keeping ...
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1504
__NOTOC__ Year 1504 (MDIV) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events January–June * January 1 – French troops of King Louis XII surrender Gaeta to the Spanish, under Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba. * January 21 – After the death of Sten Sture the Elder on December 14 the year before, Svante Nilsson is elected the new Regent of Sweden. * January 31 – Treaty of Lyon: France cedes Naples to Ferdinand II of Aragon, who becomes King of Naples as Ferdinand III. * February 29 – Christopher Columbus uses his knowledge of a lunar eclipse this night, to convince the indigenous Jamaican people to provide him with supplies. * April 1 – English guilds become subject to state control. * April 23 – Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor, routes troops to Bavaria. July–December * September 8 – Michelangelo's sculpture of ''David'' is completed in Florence. * September 13 ...
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2284
In contemporary history, the third millennium of the anno Domini or Common Era in the Gregorian calendar is the current millennium spanning the years 2001 to 3000 ( 21st to 30th centuries). Ongoing futures studies seek to understand what is likely to continue and what could plausibly change in the course of this period and beyond. Predictions and forecasts not included on this timeline * List of future astronomical events ** List of lunar eclipses in the 21st century ** List of solar eclipses in the 21st century * Projections of population growth * Climate change ** Representative Concentration Pathway ** Shared Socioeconomic Pathways * Extinction * List of dates predicted for apocalyptic events * Predictions and claims for the Second Coming * Near future in fiction * Works falling into the public domain in the United States 21st century 2000s * See: 2001 * 2002 * 2003 * 2004 * 2005 * 2006 * 2007 * 2008 * 2009 2010s * See: 2010 * 2011 * 2012 * 2013 * 2014 * 2015 * 201 ...
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2224
In contemporary history, the third millennium of the anno Domini or Common Era in the Gregorian calendar is the current millennium spanning the years 2001 to 3000 ( 21st to 30th centuries). Ongoing futures studies seek to understand what is likely to continue and what could plausibly change in the course of this period and beyond. Predictions and forecasts not included on this timeline * List of future astronomical events ** List of lunar eclipses in the 21st century ** List of solar eclipses in the 21st century * Projections of population growth * Climate change ** Representative Concentration Pathway ** Shared Socioeconomic Pathways * Extinction * List of dates predicted for apocalyptic events * Predictions and claims for the Second Coming * Near future in fiction * Works falling into the public domain in the United States 21st century 2000s * See: 2001 * 2002 * 2003 * 2004 * 2005 * 2006 * 2007 * 2008 * 2009 2010s * See: 2010 * 2011 * 2012 * 2013 * 2014 * 2015 * 201 ...
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2164
In contemporary history, the third millennium of the anno Domini or Common Era in the Gregorian calendar is the current millennium spanning the years 2001 to 3000 ( 21st to 30th centuries). Ongoing futures studies seek to understand what is likely to continue and what could plausibly change in the course of this period and beyond. Predictions and forecasts not included on this timeline * List of future astronomical events ** List of lunar eclipses in the 21st century ** List of solar eclipses in the 21st century * Projections of population growth * Climate change ** Representative Concentration Pathway ** Shared Socioeconomic Pathways * Extinction * List of dates predicted for apocalyptic events * Predictions and claims for the Second Coming * Near future in fiction * Works falling into the public domain in the United States 21st century 2000s * See: 2001 * 2002 * 2003 * 2004 * 2005 * 2006 * 2007 * 2008 * 2009 2010s * See: 2010 * 2011 * 2012 * 2013 * 2014 * 2015 * 201 ...
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2104
In contemporary history, the third millennium of the anno Domini or Common Era in the Gregorian calendar is the current millennium spanning the years 2001 to 3000 ( 21st to 30th centuries). Ongoing futures studies seek to understand what is likely to continue and what could plausibly change in the course of this period and beyond. Predictions and forecasts not included on this timeline * List of future astronomical events ** List of lunar eclipses in the 21st century ** List of solar eclipses in the 21st century * Projections of population growth * Climate change ** Representative Concentration Pathway ** Shared Socioeconomic Pathways * Extinction * List of dates predicted for apocalyptic events * Predictions and claims for the Second Coming * Near future in fiction * Works falling into the public domain in the United States 21st century 2000s * See: 2001 * 2002 * 2003 * 2004 * 2005 * 2006 * 2007 * 2008 * 2009 2010s * See: 2010 * 2011 * 2012 * 2013 * 2014 * 2015 * 201 ...
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2044
In contemporary history, the third millennium of the anno Domini or Common Era in the Gregorian calendar is the current millennium spanning the years 2001 to 3000 ( 21st to 30th centuries). Ongoing futures studies seek to understand what is likely to continue and what could plausibly change in the course of this period and beyond. Predictions and forecasts not included on this timeline * List of future astronomical events ** List of lunar eclipses in the 21st century ** List of solar eclipses in the 21st century * Projections of population growth * Climate change ** Representative Concentration Pathway ** Shared Socioeconomic Pathways * Extinction * List of dates predicted for apocalyptic events * Predictions and claims for the Second Coming * Near future in fiction * Works falling into the public domain in the United States 21st century 2000s * See: 2001 * 2002 * 2003 * 2004 * 2005 * 2006 * 2007 * 2008 * 2009 2010s * See: 2010 * 2011 * 2012 * 2013 * 2014 * ...
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1984
Events January * January 1 – The Bornean Sultanate of Brunei gains full independence from the United Kingdom, having become a British protectorate in 1888. * January 7 – Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). * January 10 ** The United States and the Vatican (Holy See) restore full diplomatic relations. ** The Victoria Agreement is signed, institutionalising the Indian Ocean Commission. *January 24 – Steve Jobs launches the Macintosh personal computer in the United States. February * February 3 ** Dr. John Buster and the research team at Harbor–UCLA Medical Center announce history's first embryo transfer from one woman to another, resulting in a live birth. ** STS-41-B: Space Shuttle ''Challenger'' is launched on the 10th Space Shuttle mission. * February 7 – Astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart make the first untethered space walk. * February 8– 19 – The 1984 Winter Olympics are held in ...
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1924
Events January * January 12 – Gopinath Saha shoots Ernest Day, whom he has mistaken for Sir Charles Tegart, the police commissioner of Calcutta, and is arrested soon after. * January 20– 30 – Kuomintang in China holds its first National Congress, initiating a policy of alliance with the Soviet Union and the Chinese Communist Party. * January 21 – The Earl of Athlone is appointed Governor-General of the Union of South Africa, and High Commissioner for Southern Africa.Archontology.org: A Guide for Study of Historical Offices: South Africa: Governors-General: 1910-1961
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1864
Events January–March * January 13 – American songwriter Stephen Foster ("Oh! Susanna", "Old Folks at Home") dies aged 37 in New York City, leaving a scrap of paper reading "Dear friends and gentle hearts". His parlor song " Beautiful Dreamer" is published in March. * January 16 – Denmark rejects an Austrian-Prussian ultimatum to repeal the Danish Constitution, which says that Schleswig-Holstein is part of Denmark. * January 21 – New Zealand Wars: The Tauranga campaign begins. * February – John Wisden publishes '' The Cricketer's Almanack for the year 1864'' in England; it will go on to become the major annual cricket reference publication. * February 1 – Danish-Prussian War (Second Schleswig War): 57,000 Austrian and Prussian troops cross the Eider River into Denmark. * February 15 – Heineken brewery founded in Netherlands. * February 17 – American Civil War: The tiny Confederate hand-propelled submarine ''H. L. Hunley'' ...
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1804
Events January–March * January 1 – Haiti gains independence from France, and becomes the first black republic, having the only successful slave revolt ever. * February 4 – The Sokoto Caliphate is founded in West Africa. * February 14 – The First Serbian uprising begins the Serbian Revolution. By 1817, the Principality of Serbia proclaims self-rule from the Ottoman Empire, the first nation-state in Europe to do so. * February 15 – New Jersey becomes the last of the northern United States to abolish slavery. * February 16 – First Barbary War: Stephen Decatur leads a raid to burn the pirate-held frigate at Tripoli to deny her further use by the captors. * February 18 – Ohio University is chartered by the Ohio General Assembly. * February 21 – Cornishman Richard Trevithick's newly built ''Penydarren'' steam locomotive operates on the Merthyr Tramroad, between Penydarren in Merthyr Tydfil and Abercynon in South Wales, following several trials since Febr ...
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1744
Events January–March * January 6 – The Royal Navy ship ''Bacchus'' engages the Spanish Navy privateer ''Begona'', and sinks it; 90 of the 120 Spanish sailors die, but 30 of the crew are rescued. * January 24 – The Dagohoy rebellion in the Philippines begins, with the killing of Father Giuseppe Lamberti. * February – Violent storms frustrate a planned French invasion of Britain. * February 22– 23 – Battle of Toulon: The British fleet is defeated by a joint Franco-Spanish fleet. * March 1 (approximately) – The Great Comet of 1744, one of the brightest ever seen, reaches perihelion. * March 13 – The British ship ''Betty'' capsizes and sinks off of the Gold Coast (modern-day Ghana) near Anomabu. More than 200 people on board die, although there are a few survivors. * March 15 – France declares war on Great Britain. April–June * April – '' The Female Spectator'' (a monthly) is founded by Eliza Haywood in E ...
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