The moon partially covers the sun during a solar eclipse seen from Gaza City in the Middle East on March 29, 2006. Around 2 minutes of darkness in late morning on Monday, Aug. 21, 2017, will present Oregon tourism with perhaps its biggest international travel marketing opportunity ever, especially to visitors from Asia.
Definition of calendar year. 1 : a period of a year beginning and ending with the dates that are conventionally accepted as marking the beginning and end of a numbered year. 2 : a period of time equal in length to that of the year in the calendar conventionally in use.
Who Invented The Calendar ? The Calendar is a system for arranging the year into days, weeks and months. Lunar Calendar. Historians donot know who or when mankind invented the first calendar, probably early man when he first carved a notch into a stick or a bone which marked the passing of each full moon. Notched bones used to record moon phases have been found in Africa and Europe dating back to about 20,500 BC.