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The Julian calendar is a solar calendar of 365 days in every year with an additional leap day every fourth year (without exception). The Julian calendar is still used as a religious calendar in parts of the Eastern Orthodox Church and in parts of Oriental Orthodoxy as well as by the Amazigh people (also known as the Berbers).
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The Revised Julian calendar, or less formally the new calendar and also known as the Milanković calendar, is a calendar proposed in 1923 by the Serbian scientist Milutin Milanković as a more accurate alternative to both Julian and Gregorian calendars.
Memorial plaque to John Etty in All Saints' Church, North Street, York, recording his date of death as "28 of Jan: 170 + 8 / 9 " In the Kingdom of Great Britain and its possessions, the Calendar (New Style) Act 1750 introduced two concurrent changes to the calendar. The first, which applied to England, Wales, Ireland and the British ...
8 BC in various calendars; Gregorian calendar: 8 BC VIII BC: Ab urbe condita: 746: Ancient Greek era: 193rd Olympiad ¹: Assyrian calendar: 4743: Balinese saka calendar: N/A: Bengali calendar: −601 – −600: Berber calendar: 943: Buddhist calendar: 537: Burmese calendar: −645: Byzantine calendar: 5501–5502: Chinese calendar: 壬子年 ...
The proleptic Gregorian calendar is produced by extending the Gregorian calendar backward to the dates preceding its official introduction in 1582. In nations that adopted the Gregorian calendar after its official and first introduction, dates occurring in the interim period of 15 October 1582 (the first date of use of Gregorian calendrical dates, being dated 5 October 1582 in the preceding ...
Julio is the Spanish equivalent of the month July and may refer to: Julio (given name) Julio (surname) Júlio de Castilhos, a municipality of the western part of the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil; Julio, a 1983 compilation album by Julio Iglesias; Julio, a character in Romiette and Julio by Sharon M. Draper
The Lutheran Duchy of Prussia, until 1657 still a fiefdom of Catholic Poland, was the first Protestant state to adopt the Gregorian calendar. Under the influence of its liege lord, the King of Poland, it agreed in 1611 to do so.