Year Counters AKA Calendars

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This week, we discuss year counters, AKA calendars! 

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A calendar - is a system for fixing the beginning, length, and divisions of the civil year and arranging days and longer divisions of time (such as weeks and months) in a definite order. (Thanks, Merriam Webster).

According to Encyclopedia Britannica, by the 40s BCE the Roman civic calendar was three months ahead of the solar calendar. Caesar, advised by the astronomer Sosigenes, introduced the Egyptian solar calendar, which claimed that the length of the solar year was 365 1/4 days. Like our calendar, the year was divided into 12 months, which had either 30 or 31 days except February, which contained 28 days in common years and 29 in every fourth year/leap year. Fun fact: Leap years repeated February 23; there was no February 29 in the Julian calendar. 

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