Join us as we journey through the history of timekeeping, from ancient civilizations to the Julian calendar introduced by Julius Caesar and how the inaccuracies in the led to Pope Gregory to an ...
The original Roman calendar divided the year from March to December into 10 months of either 29 or 31 days, based on lunar ...
The Lent season – which is a 40-day period of prayer and fasting leading up to Easter – starts on Ash Wednesday and ends on ...
Easter's date is determined by the spring equinox and lunar cycle, causing it to shift yearly. In 2025, it falls on one of ...
In the Gregorian calendar, it is always observed on a Sunday between March 22 and April 25. Easter can be observed between April 4 and May 8 in the Eastern Orthodox Church, which follows the Julian ...
Prior to the Gregorian and even Julian calendars, Roman King Numa Pompilius (715-673 BC) set about creating a calendar with equal-length months, the University of Chicago said. "When Numa ...