Believe it or not, that year lasted 445 days. It really happened, in Rome, and it became known as “the Year of Confusion.” Caesar had grown tired of spring festivals falling in the heat of summer and ...
Our modern calendar is the Gregorian calendar, named for Pope Gregory XIII, who reformed it in 1582 to correct some errors in ...
January wasn’t always the first month of the year—and in some places, it still isn’t.That simple fact explains why calendars ...