Year Count and renewing calendar counts The Center for Educational Technology

There are several reasons for leaders to change calendars or renew the counting of the years We will explore some of them …

Bar Kochba Coins Bar Kochba started a new year count On these coins issued during the Bar Kochba revolution is written: First year of the salvation of Israel

The French revolution A new calendar was approved by the National Convention on 24 October 1793 The calendar includes twelve months, each divided into three ten-day weeks.

Balfour Declaration The date of the Balfour Declaration is mentioned as a date of beginning a new count On the grave of Eliezer Ben-Yehuda Eliezer Ben-Yehuda the "reviver" of the Hebrew language and author of the Big Dictionary Passed away on the Sixty fifth year of his life Twenty six of Kislev, six days to the Balfour declaration

Setting the Balfour Declaration as an event that begins a new count reflects the significance of the declaration and how it was conceived as the beginning of a new Jewish state.