What is today's date? If you answer that question, most likely you are going to give an answer based on a calendar that goes all the way back to one put in place by Julius Caesar.

Caesar's calendar, aka the Julian calendar, was pretty good, but it developed problems over time, so it was modified in 1582 by Pope Gregory the 13th.

This calendar, the Gregorian calendar, is what we've been using for the last several hundred years

and it works pretty well. Find out how the calendar of a Roman ruler and a

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To understand how our current calendar came to be, we have to go back to ancient Rome, not just the Roman Empire or the Roman Republic, but way back to the Kingdom of Rome.

The calendar used by the Romans at that time bears a resemblance to our

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