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Julian calendar   /dʒˈuliən kˈæləndər/   Listen
Julian calendar

noun
1.
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.  Synonym: Old Style calendar.






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"Julian calendar" Quotes from Famous Books



... additional quarter of a day to be accounted for. This, of course, amounts to a full day every fourth year. We shall see that later Alexandrian science hit upon the expedient of adding a day to every fourth year; an expedient which the Julian calendar adopted and which still gives us our familiar leap-year. But, unfortunately, the ancient Egyptian failed to recognize the need of this additional day, or if he did recognize it he failed to act on his knowledge, ...
— A History of Science, Volume 1(of 5) • Henry Smith Williams

... "birthday." One naturally takes this as referring to the Birth of Christ, but it may at any rate remind us of another birthday celebrated on the same date by the Romans of the Empire, that of the unconquered Sun, who on December 25, the winter solstice according to the Julian calendar, began to rise to new ...
— Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan • Clement A. Miles



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