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This is the official calendar of the Shire of Glenn Linn. On it you will find posted information about our practices, meetings, events and activities. You may either click on the agenda tab or the spicific activity for more information.
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Society Calendar & Dating System
Society years are counted from the founding of the SCA in 1966 with New Year's Day being May 1st, the anniversary of the original May Day Tournament in Berkeley, California from which the Society sprang. Typically, Roman numerals are used to express the Society year, with the usual notation for the Society year being along the lines of A.S. XXXIV (or Anno Societatis XXXIV). Since the first year of the Society was numbered I, each anniversary of the Society comes at the end of the like-numbered year. Hence, the SCA's 50th anniversary will fall on May 1st, A.S. LI (2016 C.E.), not May 1st, A.S. L (2015).
The common form of Roman numbering uses letters in the Roman alphabet as numerals which represent numbers from 1 to 1000. The individual letters and their values are:
[ I ] | = One |
[ V ] | = Five |
[ X ] | = Ten |
[ L ] | = Fifty |
[ C ] | = One Hundred |
[ D ] | = Five Hundred |
[ M ] | = One Thousand |
A Roman numeral can contain one each of V, L, and D, and up to four each of I, X, and C. In general, Roman numerals are written in order of decreasing character value from left to right, and the value of a Roman number is the sum of all of the individual characters which make it up. Thus, MCCXXVIII represents 1000+200+20+5+3 or 1228.
However, subtraction is used in some cases to shorten the Roman number. When a character falls just before one of a larger value, the smaller value is subtracted from the larger while finding the total value. Only certain standard pairs of subtracted values are widely accepted:
[ IV ] | = Four |
[ IX ] | = Nine |
[ XL ] | = Forty |
[ XC ] | = Ninety |
[ CD ] | = Four Hundred |
[ CM ] | = Nine Hundred |
The subtracted pair will follow any larger value, so that 19 is written XIX and 1400 is written MCD Modern usage prefers such standard pairs for brevity, but period usage includes creating Roman numbers only by addition, so that both IIII and IV are acceptable representations for 4, and LXXXX and XC are acceptable representations for 90.
A.S vs. C.E.
The table below shows the A.S. society years and the C.E. current era years they corrospond with. Remember that each society year rins from May 1st to April 30th and spand parts of two C.E. years.
A.S.
I
II
III
IV
V
VI
VII
VIII
IX
X
XI
XII
XIII
XIV
XV
XVI
XVII
XVIII
XIX
XX
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Year
1966-1967
1967-1968
1968-1969
1969-1970
1970-1971
1971-1972
1972-1973
1973-1974
1974-1975
1975-1976
1976-1977
1977-1978
1978-1979
1979-1980
1980-1981
1981-1982
1982-1983
1983-1984
1984-1985
1985-1986
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A.S.
XXI
XXII
XXIII
XXIV
XXV
XXVI
XXVII
XXVIII
XXIX
XXX
XXXI
XXXII
XXXIII
XXXIV
XXXV
XXXVI
XXXVII
XXXVIII
XXXIX
XL
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1986-1987
1987-1988
1988-1989
1989-1990
1990-1991
1991-1992
1992-1993
1993-1994
1994-1995
1995-1996
1996-1997
1997-1998
1998-1999
1999-2000
2000-2001
2001-2002
2002-2003
2003-2004
2004-2005
2005-2006
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A.S.
XLI
XLII
XLIII
XLIV
XLV
XLVI
XLVII
XLVIII
XLIX
L
LI
LII
LIII
LIV
LV
LVI
LVII
LVIII
LIX
LX
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Year
2006-2007
2007-2008
2008-2009
2009-2010
2010-2011
2011-2012
2012-2013
2013-2014
2014-2015
2015-2016
2016-2017
2017-2018
2018-2019
2019-2020
2020-2021
2021-2022
2022-2023
2023-2024
2024-2025
2025-2026
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