Why Julius Caesar's Year of Confusion was the longest year in history
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To tame a hopelessly disorganised Roman calendar, Julius Caesar added months, took them away, and invented the leap year.

I edited the title because my grammar is terrible

  • rockerface 🇺🇦@lemm.eeEnglish
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    10 个月前

    That’s not what we moved. We moved Christian holidays 2 weeks back to align with Gregorian calendar. Because the Orthodox Christians would count it by Julian Calendar (with Christmas on 7th January). But yeah, we did do that to be closer to European countries than to Russia