History Of The Gregorian Calendar
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History Of The Gregorian Calendar
The Gregorian calendar is the time table that we use today. This calendar is also known as the Solar Calenfar. A Solar Year is 365.2 days in length. Our present-day calendar has changed several times from the original calendar that it started out to be. Its names were changed also.
With Romulus as the leader of Rome, the days and the months of the Roman calendar were set by the cycles of the sun and the moon. At that time, a year was considered to be ten months in length. The new year began in the Spring on March 1 and ended in December. Numa then succeeded Romulus as the new leader and introduced a new calendar which consisted of twelve months. This calendar ended in...
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