Similar words: gregorian calendar, calendar, calendar year, calendar month, lunar calendar, solar calendar, julian, Julia. Meaning: n. the solar calendar introduced in Rome in 46 b.c. by Julius Caesar and slightly modified by Augustus, establishing the 12-month year of 365 days with each 4th year having 366 days and the months having 31 or 30 days except for February.
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(1) The Christian calendar was originally based on the Julian calendar of the Romans.
(2) The Julian calendar was introduced by Julius Caesar and hence carries his name.
(3) Astrological signs calculated according to the Julian calendar.
(4) This Julian calendar added an extra day every four years to account for the quarter day.
(5) By then the Julian calendar was out of sync with the seasons by 11 days.
(6) By 1582 the Julian calendar was out of sync with the seasons by several days.
(7) Using the Julian calendar, the spring and fall equinoxes and the seasons were arriving 11 minutes earlier each year. By 1500 the vernal equinox had fallen back to March 11.
(8) The Julian calendar began in 45 BC as a reform of the Roman calendar by Julius Caesar.
(9) Under the Old Julian calendar , the popular choice of 5 BC for the year of Jesus's birth would place the 25th of Kislev on the 25th of November.
(10) Using the Julian calendar, the autumnal equinox, vernal equinox, and seasons were arriving 11 minutes earlier each year.
(11) The Julian calendar approximated the mean tropical year as 365.25 days and proposed 366-day leap years for every one divisible by four.
(12) It is based on 46 years BC, the "Julian calendar" as the basis.
(13) At lower left is a diagram of the Ptolemaic view of the solar system and at the lower right is a chart to calculate the date of Easter Sunday in the Julian calendar .
(14) The JDToJulian() function converts a Julian day count to a Julian calendar date.
(15) Dates before this are considered to be in the Julian calendar.
(16) Before the pope's intervention, the Romans and much of the European world marked time on the Julian calendar.
(17) Many people credit Julius Caesar for the use of the leap year in his Julian calendar(http://sentencedict.com/julian calendar.html), but he almost certainly took the ideas from the Egyptians.
(18) A widespread theory is that it dates back to the adoption of the Gregorian calendar with the term April Fool applying to those who were still following the Julian Calendar.
(19) Our modern calendar system of 12 months started with the Julian calendar circa 45 B.C.
(20) This was because Britain adopted the Gregorian Calendar in place of the Julian calendar.
(21) The Gregorian calendar introduced the concept of skipping three of four century years as a leap year, and so keeps the balance a bit better than the Julian calendar.
(22) The solar calendar in use throughout most of the world, sponsored by Pope Gregory XIII in 1582 as a corrected version of the Julian calendar. See table at calendar.
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