The Year 501 CE In Other Calendars Quiz

Answer: 1045

The Buddhist calendar is based on the date that Siddhartha Gautama (the Buddha) reached "parinirvana." This term describes when someone who has reached nirvana during his or her lifetime has died. This is believed to have occurred in 545 or 544 BCE. The Buddhist calendar has 354 days and during a cycle of 57 years inserts extra days or months to balance out with the solar year.

Answer: 3197

The Chinese Calendar is also called the Agricultural Calendar. Since it is a lunar calendar, the calendar has thirteen rather than twelve months one year out of three. Modern China still uses this calendar for dating holidays such as Chinese New Year and the Lantern Festival.

The earliest evidence of this calendar dates from late in Shang Dynasty and its use became more standardized during the Zhou Dynasty.

Answer: 217

The Coptic Calendar dates its year 1 based on Diocletian becoming Roman Emperor. It serves as the official liturgical calendar of the Coptic Christian Church. It is based on the solar year of 365.25 days. In terms of religious holidays, the Coptic Calendar follows the dating of the Julian Calendar rather than the Gregorian Calendar.

Answer: 493

The Ethiopian Calendar is also known as the Ge'ez Calendar. The seven to eight year gap between the Ethiopian and Gregorian Calendars is based on alternate calculations for the Annunciation (announcement to the Virgin Mary of Jesus's upcoming birth).

The calendar is used by most Ethiopian and Eritrean Christians. The Ethiopian Calendar has a consistent pattern of leap years every four years.

Answer: 501

The Gregorian Calendar was issued by Pope Gregory XIII in 1582, modifying the Julian Calendar. Common Era (CE) and Before the Common Era (BCE) years are equivalent to Anno Domini (AD--In the Year of the Lord) and Before Christ (BC) years under the Gregorian Calendar. CE and BCE are used as religiously neutral terms in many academic publications.

The year AD 1 was based on the calculation of the birth of Jesus by Dionysius Exiguus.

Answer: 4261

The Hebrew, or Jewish, Calendar is based upon the date of the creation of the world and the creation of Adam in 3760 BCE. The abbreviation AM (Anno Mundi--"In the year of the world") is used with the date. The most common date for beginning the new year is Rosh Hashanah.

The Hebrew Calendar is a lunar calendar with periodic leap months inserted to bring it into line with the solar year.

Answer: 10501

Micropaleontologist Cesare Emiliani proposed the idea of the Holocene Calendar in 1993. Using the abbreviation HE (for Holocene Era or Human Era), the dates add 10,000 years to CE/AD dating. The date of 10,000 BC represents the approximate date when humanity began to move away from a hunter-gatherer lifestyle, which Emiliani considered to represent the beginnings of human civilization.

Answer: 125

The Islamic, or Hijri, Calendar uses the Hijra (flight of Muhammad and his followers from Mecca to Medina) in 622 CE as its starting point. Though it is more common to see dates in the Islamic Calendar with abbreviation AH (After Hijra), the equivalent to 501 CE would be BH (Before Hijra) 125. The Islamic Calendar is a lunar calendar.

Answer: 2834

The Korean, or Dangun, Calendar is derived in part from the traditional Chinese Calendar. Though South Korea uses the Gregorian Calendar for civil purposes, the Dangun Calendar is used for calculating the date of traditional holidays. The dating of Year 1 is based on the traditional foundation of Gojoseon (the first Korean kingdom) in 2333 BC.

Answer: 1254

The Roman Calendar is based on the traditional founding date of the city of Rome in 753 BCE. The phrase "Ab urbe condita" (from the founding of the city) was used with the year and sometimes abbreviated AUC. In Rome, is was also common to name the year after the two Consuls (officials from the period of the Republic who continued to be elected or named during the time of the Emperors) that served that year.