When examining records from government sources, a family jiapu, or inscriptions on older Chinese tombstones, most dates will follow a Chinese dating system. The Chinese dating system utilized the sovereign's year of reign and will need to be converted to the Western or Gregorian calendar.
The websites below help translate the Chinese dating system to the Western calendar.
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- The One Hundred and Eleven Years Anglo-Chinese Calendar, by Tsang Kam-Chiu, Hathi Trust Public Library, 1926. Commencing January 1, 1800, and ending on December 31, 1910.
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- US Department of Labor Chinese American Calendar, Washington: U.S. G.P.O. 1928. Commencing January 24, 1849, and ending February 5, 1951.
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- Chinese Heritage Date System used by Chinese Pioneers- 1821-1911.
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- The Republic of China Calendar to convert dates from 1912 to the present.
