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Also known as year in a calendar

begins on the New Year's Day of the given calendar system and ends on the day before the following New Year's Day

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Armenian
Other calendars Armenian 19 Margach 1475
Bengali
21 Joishtho , BS 1433
Chinese
Yin Earth Rooster ・ Dipper Mansion , 19 Sìyue , Bǐngwǔnián , ( Xiaoman , 1 day until Mangzhong )
Common era
4 June 2026 CE
Coptic
27 Pashons , AM 1742
Egyptian
19 Phaophi , NE 2775
Ethiopian
27 Genbot, AD 2018
French republican
Décade II, Sextidi de Prairial de l'Année 234 de la République
Gregorian
4 June , AD 2026
Hebrew
19 Sivan , AM 5786
Islamic
18 Dhu al-Hijjah , AH 1447 , (tabular method)
Iso week date
2026-W23-4
Japanese
19 Uzuki , Reiwa 8, ( Shōman , 2 days until Bōshu )
Julian
22 May , AD 2026 ( AM 7534)
Maya
13.0.13.11.13 , 6 Zotz , 3 Ben
Roman
ante diem XI Kalendas Iunias , AUC 2779
Solar hijri
14 Khordad , SH 1405

via Wikipedia infobox

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Encyclopedic overview

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A calendar year begins on the New Year's Day of the given calendar system and ends on the day before the following New Year's Day, and thus consists of a whole number of days. The astronomer's mean tropical year, which is averaged over equinoxes and solstices, is currently 365.24219 days. As this is not an integer, solar calendars have strategies to adjust for the 0.24219 remainder. Neither is it a whole number of lunar months (being about 10 or 11 days more than 12 lunations) so lunisolar calendars also must include adjustments to resynchronise with the seasons. Pure lunar calendars ignore the solar cycle and instead have an invariant year of twelve lunar months that drifts through the seasons.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “calendar year” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.