The Leap year - a year with an extra day has existed for thousands of years and can be traced back to the roman republic.
The Leap year was introduced in the roman republic in 45BC by Julius Cesar after a extended visit to Egypt.When he came back from his travels he found that Master of the Horse,Mark Antony had put the city into chaos and the calender was erring by months. Julius created a calender with the help of some Egyptian astronomers. This Calendar,the Julian, was much more accurate than before as the calendar did not to be lengthened and shortened. Julius Cesar also abolished the month of Mercedonius a 'leap month' after .
From its creation in 45BCE to Augustus's change, The Julian Calendar had 29 days in February (30 in a leap year) which was changed by Augustus(The first roman ‘emperor’) to make his month equal to Julius's.
This system worked fine for a few centuries until the calender accumulated an error of ten days(before the Gregorian calendar was introduced). In the sixteenth century Aloysius Lilius decided to devise a more accurate system by ‘skipping out three out of every four centennial years’. This system was adopted after lilio’s death by Pope Gregory XIII, hence the ‘Gregorian’ calendar.
Although the gregorian calendar was, at its beginning, a remarkable improvement to timekeeping, there are many more calenders that offer a improvement. This day - as you have now read - has been special since its foundation. Now it is the end so I shall finally ‘say’...
Happy Leap Year!
The Leap year was introduced in the roman republic in 45BC by Julius Cesar after a extended visit to Egypt.When he came back from his travels he found that Master of the Horse,Mark Antony had put the city into chaos and the calender was erring by months. Julius created a calender with the help of some Egyptian astronomers. This Calendar,the Julian, was much more accurate than before as the calendar did not to be lengthened and shortened. Julius Cesar also abolished the month of Mercedonius a 'leap month' after .
From its creation in 45BCE to Augustus's change, The Julian Calendar had 29 days in February (30 in a leap year) which was changed by Augustus(The first roman ‘emperor’) to make his month equal to Julius's.
This system worked fine for a few centuries until the calender accumulated an error of ten days(before the Gregorian calendar was introduced). In the sixteenth century Aloysius Lilius decided to devise a more accurate system by ‘skipping out three out of every four centennial years’. This system was adopted after lilio’s death by Pope Gregory XIII, hence the ‘Gregorian’ calendar.
Although the gregorian calendar was, at its beginning, a remarkable improvement to timekeeping, there are many more calenders that offer a improvement. This day - as you have now read - has been special since its foundation. Now it is the end so I shall finally ‘say’...
Happy Leap Year!
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