The Calendar:
The Aerican Empire uses the standard Western (Gregorian) calendar system of January through December. Rather than crafting an Empire-specific calendar system, the Empire instead focuses on that most important of all parts of a calendar: the holidays.

The Empire makes distinctions between two types of special days: Holidays and Niftydays. A holiday is a day which, currently or in the distant past, was associated with holiness according to some faith, culture, or group. For example, most of the major December holidays celebrated by humans worldwide are holidays because, no matter how commercial they have become, they have their origin in religious tales. In contrast, days such as Topin Wagglegammon have never had anything holy associated with them save that which individuals have chosen to ascribe as an afterthought, and so, rather than being known by the misnomer of a holiday, such days are classified as niftydays.

Many days have been marked by the Empire with special events over the years. Where a holiday's name below is a link, follow the link for information about the holiday or a description of some of the special celebrations which have been done for that day.

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January:

February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September:
October
November
December


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