Recognised as Date
8 May 1501
- Wednesday
- Q2
- Common year
- Week 19
- Taurus
8 May 1501 falls on a Wednesday in the proleptic Gregorian calendar, which did not yet exist at the time. It is day 128 of 365 in 1501, falling in week 19 and quarter 2. Its Unix timestamp is -14,789,260,800.
Calendar position
Day of the weekWednesdayproleptic Gregorian; contemporaries used the Julian calendar and would have named a different day
Day of the month8th
Day of the year128 of 365
Days remaining in the year237
Days elapsed in the year127
ISO week numberWeek 19ISO 8601, weeks start on Monday
Week of the month2nd
Occurrence in the month2nd Wednesday
MonthMay (month 5 of 12)
QuarterQ2 1501
Year1501
Days in the month31
Leap yearNo, 365 days
This date in other formats
ISO 86011501-05-08
British (D/M/Y)08/05/1501
American (M/D/Y)05/08/1501
Long formWednesday 8th May 1501
RFC 2822Wed, 08 May 1501 00:00:00 GMT
Compact15010508
In wordsthe 8th of May, one thousand, five hundred and one
Julian calendar equivalent28 April 1501the date contemporaries would have written, before the Gregorian calendar existed
This date in other calendars
Hebrew10 Iyyar 5261the Hebrew calendar has been fully algorithmic since the ninth century, so this is exact
Islamic (tabular)9 Shawwal 906 AHthe tabular reckoning; the calendar in religious use begins each month on an actual crescent sighting, so expect a day either way
Persian (arithmetic)17 Ordibehesht 880the arithmetic (Birashk) calendar; the official Solar Hijri calendar takes its new year from the astronomical equinox at Tehran
Rata Die547,991days since 1 January 1 CE in the proleptic Gregorian calendar, the pivot every conversion here runs through
Unix time & day counts
Unix timestamp-14,789,260,800seconds since 1 January 1970, midnight UTC
Unix timestamp (ms)-14,789,260,800,000
Relationship to the epoch171,172 days before the Unix epoch
Julian Day Number2,269,416midnight UTC
Days since 1 January 1900-145,605
Days since 1 January 2000-182,129
Moon phase
PhaseWaxing gibbousthe same phase everywhere on Earth at the same instant
Illuminated at 12:00 UTC78%≈to about 1%, by Meeus
Waxing or waningWaxing
Moon age at 12:00 UTC10.8 dayssince the previous new moon
Previous new moon27 April 1501
Next new moon27 May 1501
Previous full moon13 April 1501
Next full moon13 May 1501
Lit side, Northern HemisphereRight
Lit side, Southern HemisphereLeftthe same Moon seen from the other side of the equator; near the equator the lit side points up or down rather than to one side
PrecisionDates onlybefore 1700 or after 2150 the Earth's rotation is not known well enough to give a time, and a phase near midnight can land a day either side
Relative to today
These values depend on today’s date and change daily.
Today21 September 2026
Days ago191,889 days
In other terms525 years, 132 days and 18 hours
Weeks27412.7 weeks ago
Anniversary this year136 days ago
Years elapsed525 complete years
Seasons & signs
Zodiac signTaurusEarth sign
Chinese zodiac yearRoosterthe animal changes at Chinese New Year, not 1 January
Season (Northern Hemisphere)Springmeteorological seasons, by whole months
Season (Southern Hemisphere)Autumn
Easter Sunday that year14 April 1501
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