THE

AMERICAN ALMANAC,

FOR

1845.

PART I.

THE

AMERICAN ALMANAC,

FOR THE

YEAR

1845,

Being the latter part of the 69th, and the beginning of the 70th, year of the Independence of the United States of America;

the 6558th year of the Julian Period;

the latter part of the 5605th and the beginning of the 5606th, year since the creation of the world, according to the Jews;

the 2598th year (according to Varro) since the foundation
of Rome;

the 2592d year since the era of Nabonassar, which has been
assigned to Wednesday, the 26th of February of the 3967th
year of the Julian Period, which corresponds, according to
the chronologists, to the 747th, and, according to the as-
tronomers, to the 746th year, before the birth of Christ;
the 2621st year of the Olympiads, or the first year of the
656th Olympiad, beginning in July, 1843, if we fix the
era of the Olympiads at 775 years before Christ, or at or
about the beginning of July of the year 3938 of the Julian
Period;

the latter part of the 1260th, and the beginning of the 1261st
year (of twelve lunations) since the Hegira, or flight of
Mahomet, which, as is generally supposed, took place on
the 16th of July, in the year 662 of the Christian era.

d Conjunction, or having the same Longitude or Right Ascension.

Quadrature, or differing 90° in

8 Opposition, or

180° in

The ascending, U the descending node.

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