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A panel from a typical Sino-Thai calendar, showing the solar powered calendar month of August 2004 (B.E. 2547), as well as dates according to the Thai and Chinese lunar calendars. In Thailand, two main calendar systems are used alongside each other: the Thai solar calendar, based on the Gregorian calendar and used for official and most day-to ...
A panel from a typical calendar, showing the month of August 2004 (B.E. 2547). Lunar dates are also provided. The Thai solar calendar (Thai: ปฏิทินสุริยคติไทย, RTGS: patithin suriyakhati thai, "solar calendar") was adopted by King Chulalongkorn (Rama V) in 1888 CE as the Siamese version of the Gregorian calendar, replacing the Thai lunar calendar as the legal ...
The Thai lunar calendar (Thai: ปฏิทินจันทรคติ, RTGS: patithin chanthrakhati, pronounced [pà.tì.tʰīn t͡ɕān.tʰrá(ʔ).kʰā.tìʔ], literally, Specific days according to lunar norms), or Tai calendar, is a lunisolar Buddhist calendar. It is used for calculating lunar-regulated holy days.
In Thailand, the name Buddhist Era is a year numbering system shared by the traditional Thai lunar calendar and by the Thai solar calendar. The Southeast Asian lunisolar calendars are largely based on an older version of the Hindu calendar, [1] which uses the sidereal year as the solar year. One major difference is that the Southeast Asian ...
Thailand uses the Thai solar calendar as the official calendar, in which the calendar's epochal date was the year in which the Buddha attained parinibbāna. This places the current year at 543 years ahead of the Gregorian calendar. The year 2025 AD is indicated as 2568 BE in Thailand.
Usually corresponds with Sat Thai Day, depending on the differences between the Thai and Chinese lunar calendars. Full moon, 11th Thai lunar month (October) a: Pavarana/Wan Ok Phansa b: วันออกพรรษา: Marks the end of the three-month Vassa and the beginning of the Kathina period the following day.
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21 August – Thailand reports its first case of clade 1b mpox in a 66-year-old European man who works in one of the African countries with the ongoing epidemic. [50] 22 August – Thai Flying Service Flight 209 crashes in Chachoengsao province, killing all nine people on board. [51]