I believe they are trying to explain how old is the universe according to certain religions... the problem here, however, is that Christianity acknowledges the Earth (and by extension the universe) is between 6000 and 10,000 years old.
... Doesn't make sense either, because the calendars are more likely trying to say how old is the earth, but they are all using different references. Because Christianity is using the reference point as the death/rebirth of Jesus, whereas Judaism is using the moment Adam was created... but the one on Science is saying how old is the universe. (and I have no clue about the others) So nothing makes sense so far, and nothing is related.
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· 8 years ago
No. The calendar is just since the start of recorded history. These dates/years are actually not related.
Ok, so:
Jewish calendar goes from when they estimate the world began, in their case, the creation of Adam. They get this from adding up the timelines in their Torah and historical texts. It is also a lunar calendar, so keep that in mind.
Because Christianity is the same as Judaism for the first half, they follow the same calendar. But for some reason, they decided to start over from 1 when Jesus was born(although his actual birth date is unknown, we just know like in an few year radius). I don't really know why exactly we started over, but we did.
Islamic calendar: Muslims count from when Mohammed made his first trip from Mecca to Medina, in AD 622. I believe it is because this was such a pivotal year for them. This is also a lunar calendar, so month lengths vary.
Chinese calendar: based on lunar and solar patterns, it holds some similarities to the Jewish calendar. However, it's based on a 60 year cycle. The calendar was invented around 2637 Bc
Scientific calendar: Carbon dating
From Wikipedia:The Maya calendar consists of several cycles or counts of different lengths. The 260-day count is known to scholars as the Tzolkin, or Tzolk'in.[5] The Tzolkin was combined with a 365-day vague solar year known as the Haab' to form a synchronized cycle lasting for 52 Haab', called the Calendar Round...A different calendar was used to track longer periods of time, and for the inscription of calendar dates (i.e., identifying when one event occurred in relation to others). This is the Long Count. It is a count of days since a mythological starting-point.[7] According to the correlation between the Long Count and Western calendars accepted by the great majority of Maya researchers (known as the Goodman-Martinez-Thompson, or GMT, correlation), this starting-point is equivalent to August 11, 3114 BCE in the proleptic Gregorian calendar...By its linear nature, the Long Count was capable of being extended to refer to any date far into the past or future.
To us muslims we started our calendar since our last prophet (peace br upon him) had moved to Almadina,after he finally has spread the massage of islam, and the religion had been official.
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Jewish calendar goes from when they estimate the world began, in their case, the creation of Adam. They get this from adding up the timelines in their Torah and historical texts. It is also a lunar calendar, so keep that in mind.
Because Christianity is the same as Judaism for the first half, they follow the same calendar. But for some reason, they decided to start over from 1 when Jesus was born(although his actual birth date is unknown, we just know like in an few year radius). I don't really know why exactly we started over, but we did.
Islamic calendar: Muslims count from when Mohammed made his first trip from Mecca to Medina, in AD 622. I believe it is because this was such a pivotal year for them. This is also a lunar calendar, so month lengths vary.
Chinese calendar: based on lunar and solar patterns, it holds some similarities to the Jewish calendar. However, it's based on a 60 year cycle. The calendar was invented around 2637 Bc
Scientific calendar: Carbon dating
*whispers* its name is the Georgian calendar, dumbass
Place the 365 days in evenly placed months. Resign the week.