Thank you all.
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Originally Posted by Baja_Traveler
So, curious - what happened in the Middle East 1397 years ago to kick off year zero? Wikipedia was not any help at all...
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To the West all Muslims are Arabs. Not true.
Persian history goes back more than 2500 years, but this calendar was forced on Persians along with Islam. It was after the Arabs killed Persians, destroyed art and burned libraries.
I rather not discuss it any further in this thread.
When Was Year 1?
The Solar Hijri year count starts with the Islamic prophet Mohammed's migration (Hegira or Hijrah) to Medina in 622 CE. Although the Solar Hijri calendar shares this start date with the Islamic calendar (Hijri calendar), the calendar systems are not related otherwise.
1397+622=2019
The Hijri calendar is a lunar calendar. Because of this, the year counts between the Solar Hijri calendar and the Hijri calendar differ substantially. For example, January 1, 2016 fell into year 1394 in the Solar Hijri calendar, which corresponds to year 1437 in the Hijri calendar.