The American Almanac and Repository of Useful Knowledge for the Year

THE

AMERICAN ALMANAC,

FOR

1853.

PART I.

THE

AMERICAN ALMANAC,

FOR THE YEAR

1853,

Being the latter part of the 77th, and the beginning of the 78th year of the Independence of the United States of America;

the 6566th year of the Julian Period;

the latter part of the 5613th, and the beginning of the 5614th year since the creation of the world, according to the Jews; the 2606th year (according to Varro) since the foundation of

Rome;

the 2600th year since the era of Nabonassar, which has been as

signed 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 astron-
omers, to the 746th year before the birth of Christ;

the 2629th year of the Olympiads, or the first year of the 658th
Olympiad, beginning in July, 1853, 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 1269th, and the beginning of the 1270th
year (of twelve lunations) since the Hegira, or flight of Ma-
homet, which, as is generally supposed, took place on the
16th of July, in the year 622 of the Christian era.

6 Conjunction, or having the same Longitude or Right Ascension. Quadrature, or differing 90° in

8 Opposition, or differing 180° in

The ascending, & the descending node.

The sign is prefixed to the latitude, or declination, of the Sun, or other heavenly body, when north, and the sign when south; but the former prefixed to the hourly motion of the Moon in latitude indicates that she is approaching, and the latter that she is receding from, the north pole of the ecliptic.

The letters M. A., m. a., denote Morning and Afternoon.