Appendix I:  Chart 5 

Synchronization of the Macedonian, Jewish, and Julian Calendars 

Macedonian Calendar 

Jewish Calendar 

Julian Calendar 

Dystros 

AdarI       (not leap year) 

Xanthikos 

Nisan        (usual synch) 

March 23, 

A.D.

 53  (Passover) 

Artemisios 

Iyar 

April 

Daisios 

Sivan 

Panemos 

Tammuz 

Loos 

Av (Ab) 

Gorpiaios 

Elul 

Hyperberetaios 

Tishri 

Dios 

Heshvan 

Apellaios 

Kislev 

Audynaios 

Tevet 

Peritios 

Shevat 

January, 

A.D.

 54 

Dystros 

AdarI 

Xanthikos 

AdarII        (leap year) 

March 

Artemisios 

Nisan 14    (out of synch) 

April 10, 

A.D.

 54  (Passover) 

(leap year)       Artemisios 2 

Iyar 

Daisios 

Sivan        (usual synch) 

Panemos 

Tammuz 

Loos 

Av (Ab) 

Gorpiaios 

Elul 

Hyperberetaios 

Tishri 

Dios 

Heshvan 

Apellaios 

Kislev 

Audynaios 

Tevet 3          [Wars, 4.654] 

December 20, 

A.D.

 54   

Peritios 

Shevat 

January, 

A.D.

 55 

Dystros 

AdarI  

Xanthikos 

Nisan 14 

March 30, 

A.D.

 55  (Passover) 

Artemisios 

Iyar 

April 

Daisios 

Sivan 

Panemos 

Tammuz 

Loos 

Av (Ab) 

Gorpiaios 

Elul 

Hyperberetaios 

Tishri 

Dios 

Heshvan 

Apellaios 

Kislev 

Audynaios 

Tevet 

Peritios 

Shevat 

January, 

A.D.

 56 

Dystros 

AdarI 

Xanthikos 

Nisan 14   (usual synch) 

March 19, 

A.D.

 56  (Passover) 

Artemisios 

Iyar 

April 

(leap year)       Artemisios 2 

Sivan        (out of synch) 

May 

Daisios 

Tammuz 

June 

Panemos 

Av (Ab) 

July 

Loos 

Elul 

August (the Temple burns) 

Gorpiaios 

Tishri 

Hyperberetaios 

Heshvan 

Dios 

Kislev 

Apellaios 

Tevet 

Audynaios 

Shevat 

January, 

A.D.

 57 

Peritios 

AdarI 

Dystros 

AdarII       (leap year) 

Xanthikos 

Nisan     (back in synch) 

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