Events that occurred this week in Christian history include the death of Thomas Goodwin, the adoption of the Gregorian calendar, and John Chrysostom becoming a bishop ...

A calendar notation in which the date is represented by one number. For example, the Julian date for December 11, 1942 is 2430705; while December 12, 1942 is 2430706. The Julian date is widely ...

Join us as we journey through the history of timekeeping, from ancient civilizations to the Julian calendar introduced by Julius Caesar and how the inaccuracies in the led to Pope Gregory to an ...

By Marco Elsy Ah, February. The runt of the calendar litter, the month that even the Romans couldn’t be bothered to flesh out properly. But why, you might ask, does this particular collection of days ...

Prior to the Gregorian and even Julian calendars, Roman King Numa Pompilius (715-673 BC) set about creating a calendar with equal-length months, the University of Chicago said. "When Numa ...