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Cultural Olympiad

Olympiad Start date End date Host of the Games of the Olympiad
I (1st) 1 Jan 1896 31 Dec 1899 Athens, Greece
II (2nd) 1 Jan 1900 31 Dec 1903 Paris, France
III (3rd) 1 Jan 1904 31 Dec 1907 St. Louis, United States
IV (4th) 1 Jan 1908 31 Dec 1911 London, United Kingdom
V (5th) 1 Jan 1912 31 Dec 1915 Stockholm, Sweden
VI (6th) 1 Jan 1916 31 Dec 1919 Not celebrated (Originally Berlin, German Empire)
VII (7th) 1 Jan 1920 31 Dec 1923 Antwerp, Belgium
VIII (8th) 1 Jan 1924 31 Dec 1927 Paris, France
IX (9th) 1 Jan 1928 31 Dec 1931 Amsterdam, Netherlands
X (10th) 1 Jan 1932 31 Dec 1935 Los Angeles, United States
XI (11th) 1 Jan 1936 31 Dec 1939 Berlin, Germany
XII (12th) 1 Jan 1940 31 Dec 1943 Not celebrated (Originally Tokyo, Japan or Helsinki, Finland)
XIII (13th) 1 Jan 1944 31 Dec 1947 Not celebrated (Originally London, United Kingdom)
XIV (14th) 1 Jan 1948 31 Dec 1951 London, United Kingdom
XV (15th) 1 Jan 1952 31 Dec 1955 Helsinki, Finland
XVI (16th) 1 Jan 1956 31 Dec 1959 Melbourne, Australia
XVII (17th) 1 Jan 1960 31 Dec 1963 Rome, Italy
XVIII (18th) 1 Jan 1964 31 Dec 1967 Tokyo, Japan
XIX (19th) 1 Jan 1968 31 Dec 1971 Mexico City, Mexico
XX (20th) 1 Jan 1972 31 Dec 1975 Munich, West Germany
XXI (21st) 1 Jan 1976 31 Dec 1979 Montreal, Canada
XXII (22nd) 1 Jan 1980 31 Dec 1983 Moscow, Soviet Union
XXIII (23rd) 1 Jan 1984 31 Dec 1987 Los Angeles, United States
XXIV (24th) 1 Jan 1988 31 Dec 1991 Seoul, South Korea
XXV (25th) 1 Jan 1992 31 Dec 1995 Barcelona, Spain
XXVI (26th) 1 Jan 1996 31 Dec 1999 Atlanta, United States
XXVII (27th) 1 Jan 2000 31 Dec 2003 Sydney, Australia
XXVIII (28th) 1 Jan 2004 31 Dec 2007 Athens, Greece
XXIX (29th) 1 Jan 2008 31 Dec 2011 Beijing, China
XXX (30th) 1 Jan 2012 31 Dec 2015 London, United Kingdom
XXXI (31st) 1 Jan 2016 31 Dec 2019 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
XXXII (32nd) 1 Jan 2020 31 Dec 2023 Tokyo, Japan
XXXIII (33rd) 1 Jan 2024 31 Dec 2027 To be decided
XXXIV (34th) 1 Jan 2028 31 Dec 2031 To be decided

An Olympiad (Greek: Ὀλυμπιάς, olympiás) is a period of four years associated with the Olympic Games of the Ancient Greeks. During the Hellenistic period, beginning with Ephorus, it was used as a calendar epoch. By this reckoning, the first Olympiad lasted from the summer of 776 BC to that of 772 BC. By extrapolation to the Gregorian calendar, the 1st year of the 699th Olympiad begins in (Northern-Hemisphere) mid-summer 2017.

A modern Olympiad refers to a four-year period beginning January 1 of a year in which the Summer Olympics are due to occur. The first modern Olympiad began in 1896, the second in 1900, and so on (the 31st began in 2016: see the Olympic Charter).

An Olympiad was a period of four years. Example: Olympiad 140, year 1 = 220/219 BC; year 2 = 219/218 BC; year 3 = 218/217 BC; year 4 = 217/216 BC.

The sophist Hippias was the first writer to publish a list of victors of the Olympic Games, and by the time of Eratosthenes, it was generally agreed that the first Olympic games had happened during the summer of 776 BC. The combination of victor lists and calculations from 776 BC onwards enabled Greek historians to use the Olympiads as a way of reckoning time that did not depend on the time reckonings of one of the city-states. (See Attic calendar.) The first to do so consistently was Timaeus of Tauromenium in the third century BC. Nevertheless, since for events of the early history of the games the reckoning was used in retrospect, some of the dates given by later historian for events before the 5th century BC are very unreliable. In the 2nd century AD, Phlegon of Tralles summarised the events of each Olympiad in a book called Olympiads, and an extract from this has been preserved by the Byzantine writer Photius. Christian chroniclers continued to use this Greek system of dating as a way of synchronising biblical events with Greek and Roman history. In the 3rd century AD, Sextus Julius Africanus compiled a list of Olympic victors up to 217 BC, and this list has been preserved in the Chronicle of Eusebius.


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