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	Nabonassar
		Nabonassar (also Nabonasser, Nebo-adon-Assur or Nabo-n-assar) was a king of Assyria who founded the Chaldean and Babylonian kingdom.
		He became a king on the Wednesday of February 26, 747 BC.
		At this day the Nabonassar era (AN - Anno Nabonassari) began, which was used by the Babylonian astronomers and by Ptolemy.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/na/Nabonassar.html (76 words)

	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 1135 (v. 2) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		From this general fact, as Well as from an inference to be stated immediately, Rosenmuller is of opinion that Nabonassar, the king of Babylon b.
		Clinton concludes, on the authority of Polyhistor and the astronomical can on,-that Babylon had always kings of her own from the earliest times, and conjectures that Nabonassar and his successors were independent till the reign of Esarhaddon.
		We may fairly infer, from this monarch's reign having been fixed upon by the Babylonian astronomers as the era from which they began their calculations, that there was some distinguished event—probably the temporary establishment of Babylon as an independent kingdom — which led to their choice.
	www.ancientlibrary.com /smith-bio/2243.html (1058 words)

	Nabonassar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Nabonassar (also Nabonasser, Nabu-nasir, Nebo-adon-Assur or Nabo-n-assar) was a king of Assyria who founded the Chaldean and Babylonian kingdom.
		He became a king in 747 BC, and ruled 14 years (until 734 BC).
		At this day the Nabonassar era (AN - Anno Nabonassari) began, which was used by Ptolemy and later astronomers, but not by the Babylonians themselves.
	publicliterature.org /en/wikipedia/n/na/nabonassar.html (108 words)

	Appendix: Scaliger's List of Eras (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The temple was purified on 25 Kislev in 148 of the Seleucid era of the Jews (149 of the official era), in lunar cycle ix.
		The interval from 1 Thoth 1 Nabonassar to 1 January 1 Julian = 7[o] 2ey 120d; 1 Julian is solar cycle 21, lunar cycle xiv, with `novilunium vel potius interlunium ipsis Kal.
		The year 872 Nabonassar had lunar cycle xi; the eclipse fell accordingly on 6 April of the Julian year in which 872 Nabonassar ends, which had lunar cycle xii [when an eclipse could fall on 5/6 April].
	hbar.phys.msu.su /gorm/fomenko/scalera.htm (6409 words)

	Chronological systems of Babylonia and Assyria
		The accuracy of this list is confirmed by the larger List of Kings and by the principal Babylonian Chronicle; the latter, like the Canon, begins with the reign of Nabonassar, who, it has been suggested, may have revised the calendar and have inaugurated a new epoch for the later chronology.
		The principal points of uncertainty, due to gaps in the text, concern the length of Dynasties IV and VIII; for the reading of the figure giving the length of the former is disputed, and the summary at the close of the latter omits to state its length.
		This omission is much to be regretted, since Nabonassar was the last king but two of this dynasty, and, had we known its duration, we could have combined the information on the earlier periods furnished by the Kings' List with the evidence of the Ptolemaic Canon.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ch/Chronological_systems_of_Babylonia_and_Assyria.html (2267 words)

	HWH 22 progetto Herstell
		The date in question is indeed the era of Nabonassar, which is discussed in connection with the Egyptian calendar in APO [Section 11.3].
		However, there is no evidence that it ever formed the basis of a new calendar, there is no evidence that it was ever used by anyone until it was introduced into astronomy about 900 years later, and there is no evidence known to me that it was chosen because of some singular event.
		In sum, there is no reason to assume that the epoch of Nabonassar was chosen because of a catastrophic event.
	www.hwh22.it /xit/S05_news/archivi/2004/novembre/02e.html (2961 words)

	Il Canone di Tolomeo
		And since the number of years from this point back to the first year of Nabonassar agrees with the Babylonian Chronicle and the Babylonian King List A (both found on clay tablets), it can be considered settled that Ptolemy’s Canon gives us exact dates as far back as 747 b.c.
		Furthermore, both the Assyrian king lists and the Assyrian limmu list, sometimes called the Eponym Canon, are in harmony with Ptolemy’s reckoning of the lengths of the reigns wherever these lists for the close of the Assyrian Empire overlap the earlier section of the canon dating based on the eclipses.
		(Nabonassar Era) 219, and have used this n.e numbering throughout, but Ptolemy’s Canon gives only the cumulative total at the end of each reign, carrying that cumulative total down only to the end of Alexander the Great’s reign, and then beginning a new series of totals.
	www.testimonigeova.com /canone_di_tolomeo.htm (997 words)

	THE VELIKOVSKY AFFAIR: CHAPTER 4: CUNEIFORM ASTRONOMICAL RECORDS AND CELESTIAL INSTABILITY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		At the time of Nabonassar, Babylon was under foreign rule and the power of its king was only nominal; in any case, as Kugler observed, no significant political event occurred during the reign of Nabonassar.
		First, after the beginning of the era of Nabonassar, the astronomers of Mesopotamia, for a period that lasted about two centuries, worked laboriously to ascertain some basic pieces of numerical information without which any rational study of the heavens is impossible, as, for instance, the exact day of the spring equinox.
		The second is that before the age of Nabonassar the Mesopotamian calendar appears to have been based on irregular lengths of the year and month; obviously the establishment of a reliable calendar is a prerequisite even of elementary astronomy.
	www.quantavolution.org /vol_15/velikovsky_affair_04.htm (9374 words)

	Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary - Isaiah 39
		B.C. That date is called "the Era of Nabonassar." Pul or Phallukha was then expelled, and a new dynasty set up at Nineveh, under Tiglath-pileser.
		Semiramis, Pul's wife, then retired to Babylon, with Nabonassar, her son, whose advent to the throne of Babylon, after the overthrow of the old line at Nineveh, marked a new era.
		Sometimes the viceroys of Babylon made themselves, for a time, independent of Assyria; thus Merodach-baladan at this time did so, encouraged by the Assyrian disaster in the Jewish campaign.
	www.godrules.net /library/jfbcomm/jfbcommisa39.htm (730 words)

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		And when he shall stand up, his kingdom shall be broken, and shall be divided towards the four winds of heaven; and not to his posterity [but after their death,] nor according to his dominion which he ruled: for [170] his kingdom shall be pluckt up, even for others besides those.
		Alexander the great having conquered all the Persian Empire, and some part of India, died at Babylon a month before the summer Solstice, in the year of Nabonassar 425: and his captains gave the monarchy to his bastard brother Philip Aridaeus, a man disturbed in his understanding; and made Perdiccas administrator of the kingdom.
		The Babylonians began now to count by a new Aera, which they called the Aera of Philip, using the years of Nabonassar, and reckoning the 425th year of Nabonassar to be the first year of Philip.
	www.isaacnewton.ca /daniel_apocalypse/pt1ch12.html (3498 words)

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		Nabonassar (also Nabonasser, Nabu-nasir, Nebo-adon-Assur or Nabo-n-assar) founded a kingdom in Babylon in 747 BC.
		An army commander involved in the civil war, who adopted the name Tiglath-pileser III with his accession, won control of Assyria the following year 746 BC.
		Shortly thereafter he retook Babylon under the suzerainty of Assyria, and Nabonassar continued to rule as a vassal king for 14 years, until 734 BC.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Nabonassar (201 words)

	Fraz Shafique
		There was a calendar with years ‘AN’, Anno Nabonassari or Era of Nabonassar named after the Babylonian King Nabunas.iru in 747 BC.
		The Era of Nabonassar works well with the Babylonian calendar because if you divide the AN year by 19, you get the year of the 19 year cycle as a remainder: 2747/19= 144 remainder 11- stating that right now it’s the eleventh year of the 19 year cycle.
		However, the Babylonians never used the Era of Nabonassar.
	personal.monm.edu /shafique_fraz/_private/Babcalend.doc.htm (336 words)

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		BCS 1:1 [In the 3d year of Nabonassar] king of BABYLON BCS 1:2 [Tiglath-pileser] in ASSYRIA sat on the throne.
		BCS 1:6 In the time of Nabu-natsir (Nabonassar) the town of BORSIPPA BCS 1:7 was separated from BABYLON.
		The battle which Nabonassar BCS 1:8 fought against BORSIPPA is not described.
	www.dabar.org /BibleWorks/BabylonianChronicle/BCS.TXT (2032 words)

	Epochs and Eras
		In the beginning, this was Nabonassar, later the Assyrian, Persian, and Macedonian kings.
		The first year of the reign of a certain king was 1 Thot of the year in which he took power.
		Thus, the Nabonassar era is 26 February 747 BCE.
	www.ortelius.de /kalender/era_en.php (1664 words)

	Almagest Ephemeris Calculator
		The epoch of the tables is fixed at the first year of the reign of the Babylonian king Nabu-nasir (Nabonassar, reigned 747-734 BCE) as this predated the earliest (Babylonian) observations that were available to Ptolemy (cf.
		In Ptolemy’s luni-solar and planetary tables the equation of time is defined to be zero at the epoch of the tables (1 Thoth, 1 Nabonassar).
		The consequence of this choice is that during most of the year the equation of time has a positive value (small negative values only occur when the mean longitude of the Sun is between 301.02º and 330.75º).
	www.phys.uu.nl /~vgent/astro/almagestephemeris.htm (1933 words)

	Solar Measures of the Seven Times
		But just as the oft repeated 1,260 years, or three and a half times," measure, as a matter of fact, other series of events than those to which they are in Scripture especially applied, so these seventy-five years can be traced from this 1774 terminus as leading to further stages of Papal decline and fall.
		Thus "seven times" from the earliest Nabonassar date, plus its own epact, which is seventy-five years-divided as the prophecy divides it, into two sections, the first of thirty, and the second of forty- five years, reach down to the critical years A.D. 1804 and 1848-9.
		A.D. 1804 was that of the coronation of Napoleon as emperor; and this acme of the glory of the military hero of the Revolution was also a stage of the deepest degradation to the Pope of Rome.
	www.historicism.com /Guinness/Light/light10.htm (3204 words)

	Comments
		Nabonassar seemed to be a pretty reasonable guy from what I was able to Google about him.
		The Era of Nabonassar works excellently for the Babylonian calendar, since dividing any AN year by 19 gives the year of the 19 year cycle as the remainder; e.g.
		It was Ptolemy who thus formulated the Era of Nabonassar for his astronomical reckoning.
	thefuckingtruth.blogdrive.com /comments?id=28 (721 words)

	Appendix A. The Scientific Basis of Prophetic Chronology
		APPENDIX A. THE uncertainty which attaches to remote periods of secular chronology disappears at the date of the accession of Nabonassar, with whose reign the times of the four Gentile empires commence.
		From this time forward we are able to verify the chronological records of the past; and the dates of ancient history are confirmed by astronomic observations.
		The sum of years given in the calendar is divided into two parts: first, 424 years, from Nabonassar to Alexander of Macedon; and secondly, 483 years, from Philip Aridæus to Antoninus Pius.
	www.historicism.com /Guinness/Light/append1.htm (4158 words)

	Babylonian, Jewish, Muslim, Luni-Solar, Indian, Iranian Calendars
		The "AN" years are the Era of Nabonassar, Anno Nabonassari, dating from the reign of the Babylonian King Nabûnâs.iru in 747 BC.
		That is practically perfect, however; the orbits of the earth and the moon are liable to vary enough in that period of time, and the rotation of the earth to slow down enough, to render greater "accuracy" meaningless.
		Since the chronology of ancient history is based on the Era of Nabonassar in Ptolemy's Canon of Kings anyway, it makes one wonder if the Era of Nabonassar should be used as the proper, neutral Common Era between the religions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
	www.friesian.com /calendar.htm (8375 words)

	Compendium of World History - Vol. 1
		The year 747 marks the beginning of the "Era of Nabonassar" -- named after the first of a new series of kings, native and foreign, who ruled at Babylon.
		Kings of Babylon from the Era of Nabonassar to the Persian Conquest
		Though the Second Isin Dynasty was succeeded at Babylon by king Nabonassar in 747, the king lists add three other short dynasties immediately after the Isin Dynasty.
	cgca.net /coglinks/wcglit/hoehcompendium/hhc1ch12.htm (2130 words)

	Part 1, Chapter 12 - Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel. - Historicist.com The Protestant Interpretation of ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Then seizing the cities of Egypt as a friend, he marched toMemphis, laid the whole blame of the war upon Eulaeus the Kings governor, entered into outward friendship with the young King, and took upon him to order the affairs of the kingdom.
		This was done in the year of Nabonassar 578,and is thus described by Daniel.
		Hitherto Daniel described the actions of the Kings of the North and South; but upon the conquest of Macedon by the Romans, he left off describingthe actions of the Greeks, and began to describe those of the Romans in Greece.
	www.historicist.com /newton/p1c12.htm (2991 words)

	Bible Related Commentaries by Isaac Newton on Prophecies of Daniel - Chapter 12 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		And when he shall stand up, his kingdom shall be broken, and shall be divided towards the four winds of heaven; and not to his posterity [but after their death,] nor according to his dominion which he ruled: for his kingdom shall be pluckt up, even for others besides those {Dan.
		The Babylonians began now to count by a new Aera, which they called the Aera of Philip, using the years of Nabonasser, and reckoning the 425th year of Nabonassar to be the first year of Philip.
		This was done in the year of Nabonassar 578, and is thus described by Daniel.
	www.thinkbible.net /commentaries/isd12.htm (3414 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Berosus
		Berosus wrote a history of Babylonia, probably under title of "Babyloniaca", though it is referred to under the title of "Chaldaica" by Josephus and Clement of Alexandria.
		The succeeding parts of Berosus's chronology are lost, up to the period of Nabonassar whose era commenced in 747
		The history of this period, which reaches the reign of Alexander the Great, including such illustrious kings as Nabopolassar, Nebuchadnezzar, Nabonidus, Cyrus, etc., is well known to us from the cuneiform inscriptions.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/02514a.htm (1586 words)

	Brewer, E. Cobham. Dictionary of Phrase & Fable. Nabonassar or Nebo-adon-Assur.
		Shaw, G.B. Stein, G. Stevenson, R.L. Wells, H.G. Reference > Brewer’s Dictionary > Nabonassar or Nebo-adon-Assur.
		(Nebo, Prince of Assyria.) Founder of the Babylonian and Chaldæan kingdom, and first of the dynasty of Nabonassar.
		Era of Nabonassar began Wednesday, February 26th, 747
	www.bartleby.com /81/11862.html (83 words)

	Part I, Chapter XII: Of the Prophecy of the Scripture of Truth
		Alexander the great having conquered all the Persian Empire, and some part of India, died at Babylon a month before the summer Solstice, in the year of Nabonassar 425: and his captains gave the monarchy to his bastard brother Philip Aridæus, a man disturbed in his understanding; and made Perdiccas administrator of the kingdom.
		The Babylonians began now to count by a new Æra, which they called the Æra of Philip, using the years of Nabonassar, and reckoning the 425th year of Nabonassar to be the first year of Philip.
		Then seizing the cities of Egypt as a friend, he marched to Memphis, laid the <186> whole blame of the war upon Eulæus the King's governor, entred into outward friendship with the young King, and took upon him to order the affairs of the kingdom.
	www.newtonproject.ic.ac.uk /texts/viewtext.php?id=THEM00206&mode=normalized (3585 words)

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