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  2. Gregorian calendar - Wikipedia

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    The Gregorian calendar is the calendar used in most parts of the world. [1] [a] It went into effect in October 1582 following the papal bull Inter gravissimas issued by Pope Gregory XIII, which introduced it as a modification of, and replacement for, the Julian calendar.

  3. Determination of the day of the week - Wikipedia

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    Gauss's method was applicable to the Gregorian calendar. He numbered the weekdays from 0 to 6 starting with Sunday. He defined the following operation. Inputs Year number A, month number M, date number D. Output Day of year. Procedure. First determine the day-of-week d 1 of 1 January. For a Gregorian calendar, the weekday is [5]

  4. Names of the days of the week - Wikipedia

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    The seven-day week was adopted in early Christianity from the Hebrew calendar, and gradually replaced the Roman internundinum. [citation needed] Sunday remained the first day of the week, being considered the day of the sun god Sol Invictus and the Lord's Day, while the Jewish Sabbath remained the seventh.

  5. List of adoption dates of the Gregorian calendar by country

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    For explanation, see the article about the Gregorian calendar. Except where stated otherwise, the transition was a move by the civil authorities from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar. In religious sources it could be that the Julian calendar was used for a longer period of time, in particular by Protestant and Eastern Orthodox churches. The ...

  6. Zeller's congruence - Wikipedia

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    The reason that the formula differs between calendars is that the Julian calendar does not have a separate rule for leap centuries and is offset from the Gregorian calendar by a fixed number of days each century. Since the Gregorian calendar was adopted at different times in different regions of the world, the location of an event is ...

  7. Lithuanian calendar - Wikipedia

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    Medieval calendar with the so-called Sceptre of Gediminas, 14th century A Lithuanian language calendar by Laurynas Ivinskis. Lithuanian researcher Libertas Klimka [] proposed that there was a simple astronomical observatory on the BirutÄ— Hill in Palanga before the Christianization of Lithuania.

  8. Solar cycle (calendar) - Wikipedia

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    The solar cycle is a 28-year cycle of the Julian calendar, and 400-year cycle of the Gregorian calendar with respect to the week. It occurs because leap years occur every 4 years, typically observed by adding a day to the month of February, making it February 29th. There are 7 possible days to start a leap year, making a 28-year sequence. [1]

  9. Knuckle mnemonic - Wikipedia

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    Knuckles are counted as 31 days, depressions between knuckles as 30 (or 28/29) days. One starts with the little finger knuckle as January, and one finger or depression at a time is counted towards the index finger knuckle (July), saying the months while doing so.