List of calendars

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A Tunisian calendar showing Islamic, Gregorian and Berber dates

[edit] In current use

• Akan Calendar
• Assyrian calendar
• Astronomical year numbering
• Bahá'í calendar
• Bengali calendar
• Berber calendar
• Buddhist calendar
• Chinese calendar
• Coptic calendar
• Discordian calendar
• Ethiopian calendar
• Fiscal year varies with different countries. Used in accounting only.
• Germanic calendar (still in use by Ásatrúar)
• Gregorian calendar used by most countries in the world today.
• Hebrew calendar
• Hindu calendars
• Indian national calendar
• ISO week date
• Iranian calendar
• Irish calendar
• Islamic calendar
• Japanese calendar
• Javanese calendar
• Juche calendar
• Julian calendar (still used by Orthodox churches for Easter)
• Revised Julian calendar
• Kurdish calendar
• Lithuanian calendar
• Malayalam calendar
• Maya calendar (parts still used by Maya Indians)
• Nanakshahi calendar
• Nepali calendar
• Nepal Sambat
• Minguo/Republic of China/Taiwanese calendar
• Romanian calendar
• Runic calendar (Still in use by Ásatrúar)
• Tamil Calendar
• Thai lunar calendar (still used for some Thai holidays)
• Thai solar calendar
• Tibetan calendar
• Zoroastrian calendar (including Parsi)

[edit] Archaic calendars

• Ancient Bulgarian calendar
• Ancient Macedonian calendar
• Attic calendar
• Aztec calendar
• Babylonian calendar
• Bulgar calendar
• Byzantine calendar
• Coligny calendar
• Egyptian calendar
• Enoch calendar
• French Republican calendar
• Hellenic calendar
• Mesoamerican calendars
• Pentecontad calendar
• Positivist calendar
• Rapa Nui calendar
• Roman calendar
• Runic calendar
• Soviet calendar (Gregorian calendar with 5- and 6-day weeks)
• Swedish calendar (used 1700–1844)
• King's Calendar

[edit] Proposed

[edit] Reform calendars

The following are proposed reforms of the Gregorian calendar

• Holocene calendar
• International Fixed Calendar (also called the International Perpetual calendar)
• World Calendar
• Leap week calendars
  • Pax Calendar
  • Common-Civil-Calendar-and-Time
  • Symmetry454
• Clock calendar

[edit] Non-Earth calendar proposals

• Darian calendar (for Mars)

[edit] Fictional

• Discworld calendar
• Middle-earth calendar
• Stardates (from Star Trek)
• Star Wars calendar

[edit] See also

• Golden hat (Bronze Age lunisolar calendar)
• Urnfield culture numerals (interpreted as calendar-related)