The Calendar
What the atlas records for this date, across the traditions it covers.
Observed On This Date
Commemoration of a person or event
Every 19 January, Julian (Old Calendar) reckoning.
Terr 11 in the Ethiopian calendar. 20 January in an Ethiopian leap year.
Seasonal turning point
15 Shevat
Already Underway
Fast / abstinence
The whole of Ramadan, the ninth month
Day 15 of 29
Tabular reckoning, and stored as twenty-nine days so the month can never be reported as running into Eid al-Fitr. The month is twenty-nine or thirty days and begins on a sighted crescent in most communities.
This Week In Architecture and Design History
Dates for the Hebrew and Islamic calendars are the tabular reckoning, which is what a printed calendar prints. Communities that begin a month on a sighted crescent may differ by a day, and differ from one another by place.