Hi Everyone,
In 0046 B.C. Sosegenes was making adjustments, so the new calendar started on 1st Jan 0045 B.C., so you can choose either 31st Dec. 0047 B.C. or 31st Dec. 0046 B.C. for the end of the Egyptian calendar, which doesnt make any difference as at Sunset on both dates, obviously the Sun is setting as Sirius is rising.
So running through what we can research....
A) The Egyptian Calendar began approx. 5,000 years ago with Sirius the heliacal rising star on Asc.
B) The Egyptian Calendar ended 31st Dec. either 0047 B.C. or 0046 B.C. at Sunset in Thebes, Sun setting as Sirius is rising, to start new calendar on 1st Jan.
C) The Julian Calendar ended 23:59pm on Oct 4th 1582 in Rome, Sirius rising on Asc., and obviously the Sun near I.C.
D)The first Gregorian New Year starts on 1st Jan. 1583 at midnight (00 hrs 00 mins), Sirius is continually on M.C. till 1703, after which begins to fade, last year on M.C. by projected measurement 1781, orb 1 degree.
E) by early 1800, Sirius was in paran with M.C. on some years,
by approx. 1818 on a continual basis till 1904 from Greenwich U.K.,
( used because time zones changed M.C. at other locations at New Year).
Although fading Sirius is still present on some New years for London,
but continual at some other locations.
We must deem it strange that Sirius has been influencial with the angles of the Earth, and i can think of no other research that has a history of 5,000 years regarding the presence of a fixed star in regards to mans efforts to understand time and calendars!
Further information regarding religious interest in Hermetic doctrines during the Renaissance can be found at the Warburg Institute and the research by Frances Yates.
Pope Gregory XIII died soon after introducing the Gregorian Calendar, the next Pope was Sixtus V, and for purely decorative reasons in 1586, moved an Egyptian obelisk to the centre of St Peters Square, which can be seen to this day.
I'm not saying he did it for any other reason, i'm religious and dont want Evangelist comments, i'm just stating facts...let everyone make up their own minds!