re: Barad-dûr has fallen!

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Wait, they had Roman calendars in middle earth?

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No, The professor provided a whole appendix to explain the Hobbit calendar.
That’s why he’s the best.

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The answer is "yes, and no".

If you read the books, you clearly see actual dates; Bilbo's (and Frodo's) birthday and thus the date of the party in the opening, is September 22. There are other dates written, offhand I can't remember examples (although in the appendixes there's a timeline with specific dates).

If you dig deeper, you learn the whole thing is considered a translation; and that includes dates, as well as any names not Elvish. Meaning, it isn't called The Shire, and there isn't a Frodo or Sam, etc. Tolkien wrote stuff listing the actual names, the actual calendar, etc. But since this is a translation, and taken from the Hobbit's perspective, everything is given an English slant, to make it more familiar.