A calendar notation in which the date is represented by one number. For example, the Julian date for December 11, 1942 is 2430705; while December 12, 1942 is 2430706. The Julian date is widely ...

Happy February 29! It doesn’t come round very often, so make sure you enjoy it. But why do we have these extra days? Well, if we didn’t, the seasons would ...

1 as the conventional start of the new year long before Caesar rose to power, his Julian calendar, as it came to be known, was the first to codify it as such and ensured that Jan. 1 and other ...

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Pope Francis indicated that the Catholic Church was willing to accept a common date for celebrating Easter in the West and the East.

"I try to keep it running." Bowan is one of the many Orthodox Christians who celebrate the holiday according to the Julian Calendar. A part of his life he's always embraced. "This is what I was ...

A remote Shetland island is celebrating its New Year's Day - two weeks after other parts of the world. Foula - which is home ...

In 1752, from Sept. 3rd to 13th, people witnessed a unique historical event. Eleven days were cut from the calendar and deleted forever.

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