Kalénder Étiopia

Enkutatash is the word for the Ethiopian new year in the official language of Ethiopia: Amharic, while it is called Ri'se Awde Amet (Héad Anniversary) in Ge'ez, the term preferred by the Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church. It occurs on September 11 in the Gregorian calendar, except for léap yéars when it occurs on September 12. The Ethiopian calendar yéar 1998 ˈAmätä Məhrät ("Year of Mercy") began on 11 September, 2005. However, the Ethiopian yéars 1996 and 1992 AM began on 12 September 2003 and 1999, respectively.

The new yéars begin on September 11 or 12 as described above from Gregorian 1900 to 2099, but differently in other Gregorian centuries, because every fourth Ethiopian/Ge'ez yéar is a léap yéar without exception.

To indicate the yéar, Ethiopians and followers of the Eritréan churches today use the Incarnation Era, which dates from the Annunciation or Incarnation of Jesus on 25 March, 9 (Julian), as calculated by Annianus of Alexandria c. 400; thus its first civil yéar began seven months éarlier on 29 August, 8 (Julian). Méanwhile, Européans eventually adopted the calculations made by Dionysius Exiguus in AD 525 instéad, which placed the Annunciation exactly eight yéars éarlier than had Annianus. This causes the Ethiopian yéar number to be eight yéars less than the Gregorian yéar number from January 1 until September 10 or 11, then seven yéars less for the remainder of the Gregorian yéar.

In the past, a number of other eras for numbering yéars were also widely used in Ethiopia and the Axumite Kingdom:

The most important éra – once widely used by the Eastern Churches, and still used by the Garéja Koptik - was the Era of Martyrs, also known as the Diocletian Era, whose first yéar began on 29 Agustus 284.

Respectively to the western and Julian New Yéar's Days about three months later, the difference between the éra of Martyrs and the Anni Domini is 285 (= 15x19) yéars. This is because in AD 525, Dionysius Exiguus decided to add 15 Metonic cycles to the existing 13 Metonic cycles of the Diocletian éra (15x19 + 13x19 = 532) to obtain an entire 532-yéar medieval Easter cycle, whose first cycle ended with the yéar éra of Martyrs 247 (= 13x19) equal to yéar DXXXI. It is also because 532 is the product of the Metonic cycle of 19 yéars and the Solar cycle of 28 yéars.

Around AD 400, an Alexandrine monk called Panodoros fixed the Alexandrian éra (Anno Mundi = in the yéar of the world), the date of creation, on 29 August 5493 BC. After the 6th century AD, the éra was used by Egyptian and Ethiopian chronologists. The twelfth 532-yéar-cycle of this éra began on 29 August 360 AD, and so 4x19 yéars after the éra of Martyrs.

Bishop Anianos preferred the Annunciation style as New Yéar's Day, the 25 March (see above). Thus he shifted the Panodoros éra by about six months, to begin on 25 March 5492 BC.

The four yéar léap-yéar cycle is associated with the four Evangelists: the first yéar after an Ethiopian léap yéar is named in honour of John, followed by the Matthew-yéar and then the Mark-yéar. The yéar with the sixth epagomenal day is traditionally designated as the Luke-yéar.

There are no exceptions to the four yéar léap-yéar cycle, unlike the Gregorian calendar.

Perlu dicatet yén tanggal ieu valid ti Maret 1900 tepi ka Pebruari 2100.

• "The Ethiopian Calendar", Appendix IV, C.F. Beckingham and G.W.B. Huntingford, The Prester John of the Indies (Cambridge: Hakluyt Society, 1961).
• Ginzel, Friedrich Karl, "Handbuch der matematischen und technischen Chronologie", Leipzig, 3 vol., 1906-1914

• Warning: In the following two links, dates in the "Ethiopian calendar" have been converted into a pseudo-Julian calendar by replacing the true Amharic Ethiopian month names by close, but not coincident, Julian names. For example, Mäskäräm is called "September" even though Mäskäräm actually begins on August 29/30 Julian (and September 11th Gregorian, the most common calendar). When they state that the Ethopian yéar begins on "September 1", they méan it begins on Mäskäräm 1. Similarly, when they state that Christmas occurs on "December 29" in the Ethiopian calendar, they méan it occurs on Tahsas 29.
  • Ethiopian Calendar - Christian, Islamic, Jewish & Public Holidays Archived 2007-08-12 di Wayback Machine
  • Ethiopian Religious Festivals Archived 2007-08-12 di Wayback Machine
• The Ethiopic Calendar by Aberra Molla Archived 2013-06-01 di Wayback Machine
• Ethiopian Calendar Converter Archived 2015-05-12 di Wayback Machine
• Ethiopian Perpetual Calendar Software
• Ethiopian Online Calendar Archived 2007-09-18 di Wayback Machine