Book of Indian Eras, with Tables for Calculating Indian Dates c30.11

c30.11

As a last example, I will take a still earlier date recorded by Bacon, “1617, Feby. 6th, Friday.” Here the date being prior to the 25th March the true year was 1618, as now reckoned. The initial day in Julian reckoning was Thursday, and the year being an ordinary one, the names of the months must be read from the left side of Table II, which gives Friday as the 6th February 1618.