Byzantine Calendar

Strictly speaking, there is no special Byzantine calendar. I used this name in the Calendar Converter only for short, because otherwise I had to write something similar to "variation of the Julian calendar, which was used in Byzantine at the time of the Emperor Constans and according to which years counting was conducted since the World Creation, which happened on Saturday, September 1, 5509 B.C.".

In Byzantine Julian calendar was used, and the counting was conducted from the World Creation. The Date of the World Creation was determined in various ways, i.e. there were many eras since the World Creation. Besides the era since the World Creation on September 1, 5509 B.C., I could mention the era since Adam (from creation of Adam) — Friday, March 1, 5508 B.C. Both eras came to Russia from Byzantine and were used for several centuries to date the events.

Period of 532 years is named Indiction. All dates of the Orthodox Easter in any indictions are exactly repeated.

Thus, the Julian calendar with Byzantine era from the World Creation on September 1, 5509 B.C. was realized in the Calendar Converter under the name "Byzantine calendar".

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