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Tuesday 28 December 2027

What the atlas records for this date, across the traditions it covers.

Observed On This Date

Commemoration of a person or event
28 December; 29 December in the Byzantine calendar
29 December in the Byzantine calendar.

Already Underway

Feast / celebration
25 Kislev to 2 or 3 Tevet
Day 4 of 8
Runs into Tevet, since Kislev has twenty-nine or thirty days.

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Dates for the Hebrew and Islamic calendars are the tabular reckoning, which is what a printed calendar prints. Communities that begin a month on a sighted crescent may differ by a day, and differ from one another by place.