Julius Caesar was believed to have messed up the months in a year, but was trying to fix the solar calendar, resulting in one ...

Zelensky repeats that a proposal for a 30-day full and unconditional ceasefire "remains on the table" and says that Ukraine's ...

The alignment of Easter in Western and Eastern branches of Christianity, along with a 1,700-year anniversary, have renewed ...

For more than 400 years, Catholic and Orthodox churches have used different ways to determine the date of Easter. But this Sunday will mark a special moment for Christians, ...

At the time, the Roman Empire followed a calendar established by Julius Caesar in 46 B.C. — the “Julian” calendar. It was a solar-based calendar that remains familiar today: a year of 365 ...

The Eastern Orthodox Church uses the Julian calendar, a solar calendar that was used by the Roman Empire. This year, Easter and Eastern Orthodox Easter fall on the same date, according to The Old ...

No one really knows for sure.Calendar changeSome historians speculate it dates all the way back to 1582. That's when France switched from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar.The new year ...

The Gregorian calendar was created to correct the Julian calendar’s drift against the solar year. As a result, the date of Easter depends on which calendar is used. Orthodox Easter falls anywhere ...

Because those days didn't exist – the British Calendar Act of 1751 had abolished them. Until this day in 1752, Britain was using the Julian calendar, designed by Sosigenes of Alexandria and ...