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| `islamic-tbla` | Hijri calendar, tabular/rule-based with leap year rule II (leap years 2,5,7,10,13,16,18,21,24,26,29 in the 30-year cycle (1-based numbering)) and Thursday/astronomical epoch (July 15, 622 Julian / 0622-07-18 ISO) |
| `islamic-civil` | Hijri calendar, tabular/rule-based with leap year rule II (leap years 2,5,7,10,13,16,18,21,24,26,29 in the 30-year cycle (1-based numbering)) and Friday/civil epoch (July 16, 622 Julian / 0622-07-19 ISO) |
| `iso8601` | ISO calendar (variant of the Gregorian calendar with week rules and formatting parameters made region-independent) |
| `japanese` | Japanese Imperial calendar (this calendar adds an era for each new emperor, so the output year and era for a future date may not match the input year and era when your code runs on a future engine version) |
| `japanese` | Japanese Imperial calendar (this calendar adds an era for each new emperor, so the output year and era for a future date may not match the input year and era when your code runs on a future engine version. **Note:** See the remarks below this table about dates prior to 1868-10-23 ISO.) |
| `persian` | Persian calendar |
| `roc` | Republic of China calendar |

As of October 2025, in the `japanese` calendar, dates prior to 1868-10-23 ISO (the start date of the year 1 Meiji) don't work as expected in browsers in two ways. First, [CLDR had the wrong start date for the Meiji era](https://unicode-org.atlassian.net/browse/CLDR-11375), which causes calendar implementations to extend the Meiji era further to the past than it actually did. Second, the upcoming [Intl era and monthCode Proposal](https://tc39.es/proposal-intl-era-monthcode/) specifies that dates prior to the Meiji era should use Gregorian eras, but browsers have traditionally used approximations of prior Japanese eras instead. The `japanese` calendar was taken into use on January 1, 6 Meiji / 1873-01-01 ISO, so these problems only affect proleptic dates.

The types below are specified in CLDR but do not have implementations distinct from the above calendars in browsers.

| Value | Description | Notes |
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