What Day of the Week

December 29, 1170 was the 363^rd day of the year 1170 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 2 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Tuesday.

The day of the week for December 29, 1170 under the old Julian calendar was Tuesday. Did you notice the similarity with the Gregorian calendar?

If you are trying to learn Spanish then this day of the week in Spanish is martes.

A person born on this day will be 848 years old today. If that same person saved a Dime every day starting at age 6, then by now that person has accumulated $30,788.20 today.

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Here’s the December 1170 Gregorian calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly 1170 calendar.

Capricorn is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Turquoise is the modern birthstone for this month. Onyx is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

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  Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, is assassinated inside Canterbury Cathedral by followers of King Henry II; he subsequently becomes a saint and martyr in the Anglican Church and the Catholic Church.

A note to students, teachers, scholars and anyone else passionate about this topic. As stated in the front page, this website is using the Gregorian calendar as the basis for all “day of the week” computation whether or not the Gregorian calendar is relevant for the date in question (December 29, 1170). Educators should point out the primary reason why Pope Gregory XIII introduced a new calendar system in October 1582. That is, to make the computation for the annual date of Easter more accurate since it is the foundation of the Christian faith.

Even with that purpose in mind, the Gregorian calendar too will become out of sync. It has a known approximation error of about one day for every 7,700 years assuming a constant time interval between vernal equinoxes (which is not true). This is better compared to the one day for every 128 years error of the Julian calendar.

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