In honor of Leap Day, this read is for the history nerds. Ever wonder how America caught our calendar up with the rest of the world? In September 1752, we skipped over 11 days.

Like the Gregorian calendar, the Julian calendar has 12 months and 365 days "with each fourth year having 366 days and the months each having 31 or 30 days except for February which has 28 or in ...

The world does not revolve around us, and while it might feel like it sometimes, things as simple as knowing what day and year it is varies wildly depending on who you’re talking to. There are ...

The Julian calendar was used in the West until 1582, when the Gregorian calendar was adopted. The Julian calendar's method of calculating Easter was standardized in the year 325 at the First ...

To do so, they decided to base it on the Julian calendar, a solar calendar which Roman ruler Julius Caesar had adopted in 46 B.C. on the advice of Egyptian astronomer Sosigenes in an attempt to ...

A chilly January 7th Christmas celebration began at St. John's Russian Orthodox Cathedral in Mayfield. A celebration that church sexton William Bowan has helped ring in for more than 5 decades. "I ...

In the Julian calendar, the new year began on March 25. So March 24, 1701 would be followed directly by March 25, 1702. The Gregorian calendar, as we know today, begins on January 1. ...

But, as Konstantin Bikos, the lead editor at timeanddate.com shared, "The Julian calendar was just not accurate enough. It had a Leap Day every four years, so over the centuries, it slowly drifted ...