It was estimated about more than a million people visited the site during the weekend on which the Northward equinox fell in 2010.

The Northward equinox is one point in time commonly used to determine the length of the tropical year.

The effect accumulated from 325 until by the 16th century, when the Northward equinox fell on March 10 or 11.

The Northward equinox marks the first day of various calendars including the Iranian calendar.

In many Arab countries, Mother's Day is celebrated on the Northward equinox.

World Citizen Day occurs on the Northward equinox.

A Northward Migration?

Babylonian New Year began with the first New Moon after the Northward equinox.

African lineages that had been introduced into the Iberian refuge would have then dispersed all over Europe with the Northward expansion of humans.

Soldiers, Indians, and Silver: The Northward Advance of New Spain, 1550-1600.

The Persian Calendar begins each year at the Northward equinox, observationally determined at Tehran.

The celebration coincides with the Northward equinox which falls mainly on 21 March and the festival is held usually between 18 and 24 March.

The Northward equinox is the vernal equinox in the Northern Hemisphere and the autumnal equinox in the Southern Hemisphere.

As March 20 is the Northward equinox, the eclipse occurs as the Sun rises at the north pole for the first time in six months, ending the winter polar night.

The Northward equinox (or March equinox) is the equinox on the earth when the Sun appears to cross the celestial equator, heading northward.

On a plaque on the headstone are the following lines: Look to the Northward stranger Just over the hillside there Have you ever in your travels seen A land more passing fair?

From 1960 to 1995, the Northward equinox always fell at such a time that New Year's Day in Iran occurred on the day called 21 March in the Western calendar.

The Iranian New Year, called Nowruz, is the day containing the exact moment of the Northward equinox, which usually occurs on 20 or 21 March, commencing the start of the spring season.

International Astrology Day is celebrated/observed depending on the exact day that the Northward equinox actually occurs (Spring equinox in the Northern hemisphere, Fall equinox in the Southern hemisphere).

But it is important to note that all Iranians including Zoroastrians celebrate NoRuz (Nawruz) on the actual day of the Northward equinox, therefore some years it can be 20th / 22nd March.

Among his several influential books are Soldiers, Indians, and Silver: The Northward Advance of New Spain, 1550-1600 (1952) and Mexico's Miguel Caldera: The Taming of America's First Frontier, 1548-1594 (1977).

The direction along the line from the Earth in the general direction of the zodiac sign Aries (Ram) is the Northward equinox, and is given the symbol (the symbol looks like the horns of a ram).

So that the Northward equinox would have the same date in the new Gregorian Calendar as it had in the Julian calendar (March 21), ten days were dropped so that October 5 became October 15 in 1582.

The Northward equinox passed from Taurus into Aries in year 1865, passed into Pisces in year 67, will pass into Aquarius in year 2597, will pass into Capricornus in year 4312.

Taylors plat was named Mountain View, but the Post Office Department objected to the name Mountain View and the town was named 'North Bend' after the Northward turn of the South Fork of the Snoqualmie River.