Dates and calendars

Old Style, double dates, feast days and regnal years. Free to print and share. Full explanations: dailyancestor.com/dictionary/dates-calendar

7ber

September (8ber, 9ber, 10ber: Oct. to Dec.)

Advent

Season before Christmas (four Sundays)

Ascension Day

Thursday, 40th day of Easter

Calendar Act of 1750

1752 calendar change: 11 days dropped

Candlemas

February 2

civil year

The legal year that began on March 25

double dating

Writing two years for a date before March 25

Easter

Spring feast that fixes the moveable holy days

Ember days

Quarterly sets of three fast days

First Day

Quaker name for Sunday

First Month

Quaker month number (March was first before 1752)

Fortnight

Two weeks (fourteen days)

Gregorian calendar

The modern calendar, from 1582 (1752 in Britain)

Hallowmas

November 1 (All Saints' Day)

Ides

15th or 13th of the month (Roman)

Julian calendar

The calendar used in Britain until 1752

Kalends

First day of the month (Roman)

Lady Day

March 25, the old New Year's Day

Lammas

August 1

leap year

Year with an extra day (February 29)

Lent

Fasting season before Easter

Low Sunday

Sunday after Easter Sunday

Martinmas

November 11

Michaelmas

September 29

Midsummer Day

June 24

moveable feast

Holy day whose date changes with Easter

New Style

A date in the new Gregorian calendar

Nones

7th or 5th of the month (Roman)

Old Christmas

January 6 (Epiphany)

Old Style

A date in the old Julian calendar

On or about

Approximately on the date given

Palm Sunday

Sunday before Easter

quarter days

Four rent days: Lady Day, Midsummer, Michaelmas, Christmas

regnal year

Year counted from the start of a reign

Sabbath

Day of rest (Sunday; Saturday for Jews)

Shrove Tuesday

Day before Lent begins (moves with Easter)

Trinity Sunday

Sunday after Whitsunday (Pentecost)

Twelfth Night

Last night of Christmastide (Jan. 5 or 6)

Twelvemonth

A year (twelve months)

Whitsun

Pentecost, seventh Sunday after Easter