In 1740 (1152 AH) during the reign of Sultan Mahmud I, March was adopted as the first month of the fiscal year for the payment of taxes and dealings with government officials instead of Muharram following Treasurer Atıf Efendi's proposal. In 1677, Head Treasurer ( Ottoman Turkish: باش دفتردار, Baş Defterdar) Hasan Pasha under Sultan Mehmed IV proposed the correction of financial records by dropping one year (an escape year) every 33 years, resulting from the difference between the lunar Islamic calendar and the solar Julian calendar. Because the length of the lunar month is not an even fraction of the length of the tropical year, a purely lunar calendar quickly drifts relative to the seasons.ġ677 Introduction of the Fiscal calendar In the Islamic state of the Ottoman Empire, the religious Islamic calendar was in use, within which days are numbered within each lunar phase cycle. The Hebrew date 22 Nisan 5671 ( 22 ניסן 5671) appears at the bottom.The upper right shows the Islamic date 21 Rebiülahir 1329 ( ١٣٢٩ ربيع الآخر ١٢).Under the Greek is Armenian, reading April ( ԱՊՐԻԼ) and Thursday ( ՀԻՆԳՇԱԲԹԻ).Above these two is 30 (twice), the number of days in the Julian and Gregorian months the month (April, Априлий) and day (Thursday, Четвъртъкъ) in Bulgarian.Next to that is the Gregorian date (20 April, AVRIL 20) and day ( Jeudi) in French.The same Julian date (7 April, ΑΠΡΙΛΙΟΣ 7) and day (Thursday, Πέμπτη) appears below in Greek with the AD year 1911.The upper left shows the Rumi date in Ottoman Turkish: year 1327, 7 Nisan ( ٧ نیسان ١٣٢٧).
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