The Calendar
What the atlas records for this date, across the traditions it covers.
Observed On This Date
Veneration of a deity or holy figure
12 December
Already Underway
Feast / celebration
25 Kislev to 2 or 3 Tevet
Day 5 of 8
Runs into Tevet, since Kislev has twenty-nine or thirty days.
This Week In Energy History
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.