when was the modern day calender first used and by who. What was used prior to it and whos idea was that?
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i think a monk called the venerable bede from northumberland had something to do with it .check him out on the net
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If your talking about Stone Henge they believe that the stones were used like a calender.
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When there was a conversion from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar, there had to be a change made to account for the year being out of synch with the actual seasons.  The Julian calendar accounted for a solar year equivalent to 365.25 days, but it is closer to 365.2422 days.  As a result, we were adding too many days.  The Gregorian calendar instituted a change where 3 out of every 4 centuries would *not* be leap years.\n\nThe reform happened in 1582.  Ten days were omitted from the calendar, and it was decreed that the day following (Thursday) October 4, 1582 (which is October 5, 1582, in the old calendar) would thenceforth be known as (Friday) October 15, 1582.\n\nThe Gregorian Calendar was adopted immediately upon the promulgation of Pope Gregory's decree in the Catholic countries of Italy, Spain, Portugal and Poland, and shortly thereafter in France and Luxembourg. During the next year or two most Catholic regions of Germany, Belgium, Switzerland and the Netherlands came on board. Hungary followed in 1587. The rest of the Netherlands, Denmark, Germany and Switzerland made the change during 1699 to 1701. By the time the British were ready to go along with the rest of Europe, the old calendar had drifted off by one more day, requiring a correction of eleven days, rather than ten. \n\nThe Gregorian Calendar was adopted in Britain (and in the British colonies) in 1752, with (Wednesday) September 2, 1752, being followed immediately by (Thursday) September 14, 1752.\n\nI think this must be the year that you are referring to... 1752.
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It is sometimes suggested that Ben Franklin was the first to suggest daylight savings in a letter to the Journal of Paris. However he was putting it forward humorously.\n\nt was first seriously proposed by William Willett in the "Waste of Daylight", published in 1907, but he was unable to get the British government to adopt it despite considerable lobbying. The German government introduced it during 1916 to increase productivity in World War I with the British following soon after.
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Well let the mouse to the walking\nfor 'almanak' \nhttp://www.nakskov-gym.dk/almadk/\n\n\nOr did you mean almanac like in almanac, calendar with notations of astronomical and other data. Almanacs have been known in simple form almost since the invention of writing, for they served to record religious feasts, seasonal changes, and the like?\n\nIn that case perhaps it is \nhttp://www.infoplease.com/almanacs.html\n\nBu I think you really meant ephemeris\nand here is an awesome site:\n\nhttp://www.astro.com/swisseph/swepha_e.htm\n\nI think you can download all the information you need even if you are in Chennai :)\n\nGood luck
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I know that there are certain websites were you can look up calendars from as way back as 20 years ago or more. They have the actual information on them that you would be looking for. I had to do the same thing myself, but I'm not sure what the names of the websites were. Just keying "calendars" should be a start, and the websites ask you what year that you need to access the particular calendar. Hope that helps.
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Although the ancient egyptions had a calendar that was divided into 12 months of 30 days, the current 12 month calendar has been in place since Feb 24, 1582.\n\nSee the page below.
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If you can get a gmail account there is a web based calender scheduler on there.\n\nhttps://www.google.com/accounts/SmsMailSignup1
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the longest calendar year was AD 46.  the romans made 1 january the first day of the year in 153 BC, but they also made the year 355 days long.  julius caesar corrected the problem with the julian calendar in AD 46 by making the year 365 days long and adding 90 days.
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The Date of Easter\n\nbar\n\nEaster is an annual festival observed throughout the Christian world. The date for Easter shifts every year within the Gregorian Calendar. The Gregorian Calendar is the standard international calendar for civil use. In addition, it regulates the ceremonial cycle of the Roman Catholic and Protestant churches. The current Gregorian ecclesiastical rules that determine the date of Easter trace back to 325 CE at the First Council of Nicaea convened by the Roman Emperor Constantine. At that time the Roman world used the Julian Calendar (put in place by Julius Caesar).\n\nThe Council decided to keep Easter on a Sunday, the same Sunday throughout the world. To fix incontrovertibly the date for Easter, and to make it determinable indefinitely in advance, the Council constructed special tables to compute the date. These tables were revised in the following few centuries resulting eventually in the tables constructed by the 6th century Abbot of Scythia, Dionysis Exiguus. Nonetheless, different means of calculations continued in use throughout the Christian world.\n\nIn 1582 Gregory XIII (Pope of the Roman Catholic Church) completed a reconstruction of the Julian calendar and produced new Easter tables. One major difference between the Julian and Gregorian Calendar is the "leap year rule". See our FAQ on Calendars for a description of the difference. Universal adoption of this Gregorian calendar occurred slowly. By the 1700's, though, most of western Europe had adopted the Gregorian Calendar. The Eastern Christian churches still determine the Easter dates using the older Julian Calendar method.\n\nThe usual statement, that Easter Day is the first Sunday after the full moon that occurs next after the vernal equinox, is not a precise statement of the actual ecclesiastical rules. The full moon involved is not the astronomical Full Moon but an ecclesiastical moon (determined from tables) that keeps, more or less, in step with the astronomical Moon.\n\nThe ecclesiastical rules are:\n\n    * Easter falls on the first Sunday following the first ecclesiastical full moon that occurs on or after the day of the vernal equinox;\n    * this particular ecclesiastical full moon is the 14th day of a tabular lunation (new moon); and\n    * the vernal equinox is fixed as March 21. \n\nresulting in that Easter can never occur before March 22 or later than April 25. The Gregorian dates for the ecclesiastical full moon come from the Gregorian tables. Therefore, the civil date of Easter depends upon which tables - Gregorian or pre-Gregorian - are used. The western (Roman Catholic and Protestant) Christian churches use the Gregorian tables; many eastern (Orthodox) Christian churches use the older tables based on the Julian Calendar.\n\nIn a congress held in 1923, the eastern churches adopted a modified Gregorian Calendar and decided to set the date of Easter according to the astronomical Full Moon for the meridian of Jerusalem. However, a variety of practices remain among the eastern churches.\n\nThere are three major differences between the ecclesiastical system and the astronomical system.\n\n    * The times of the ecclesiastical full moons are not necessarily identical to the times of astronomical Full Moons. The ecclesiastical tables did not account for the full complexity of the lunar motion.\n    * The vernal equinox has a precise astronomical definition determined by the actual apparent motion of the Sun as seen from the Earth. It is the precise time at which the apparent ecliptic longitude of the Sun is zero. (Yes, the Sun's ecliptic longitude, not its declination, is used for the astronomical definition.) This precise time shifts within the civil calendar very slightly from year to year. In the ecclesiastical system the vernal equinox does not shift; it is fixed at March 21 regardless of the actual motion of the Sun.\n    * The date of Easter is a specific calendar date. Easter starts when that date starts
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http://www.printfree.com/Calendars.htm\nMake your own at this site.
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No because that's when we changed to the Gregorian calender. As previous measurements of time didn't allow for the fact that there are 365 and 1/4 days in a year plus 11 minutes, dates were becoming out of synchronization. Thus in 1582 the system adopted by Pope Gregory XIII was made law in Britain and it's colonies and is now in worldwide use. This meant 'jumping' from 5th October to 14th October to make up for the discrepancy and caused the 'Missing 9 Days' riots as people thought that they would die nine days sooner than they would have done if the calender had not been amended. This is why no-one was born between those dates as they did not exist.
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Before a standard calendar, generally dates were refered to by who-ever was in charge and by the month of the season.  So today would be:\n\nThe 10th day of the 2nd month of the 6th year of the Presidency of George W. Bush.\n\nIt gets a little confusing, but is fairly accruate.\n\nBCE came into being when people realized that not everyone accepted AD (anno domini - Year of God in Latin).  In fact there are several calendars out there.  so BCE and CE have been accepted as the "norm" for all dates in anthropology and archaeology.\n\nI think Rome came up with the first one for months, but still refered to the years as "in the reign of [insert name here]"
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There are even today many different ways of figuring out time. For example this weekend, on 29th Jan the chinese new year starts. It is Year 4703 by the Chinese calendar. And it is the jewish year 5677.\nAnd even the christian calendar has been modified a couple of times. The gregorian calendar reform was adopted in 1582 but not in England and so also not in the US, they only changed in 1752 (so they lost 11 days).\nWhich year we are in is only relative to what you want to measure. If you want to be more explicit you don't just say B.C. (Before christ) but B.C.E (before the christian era). As long as you can figure out how far apart they are you can easily convert one into the other and allow for changes. \nFor time of the year (month/day) it is probably best to go by a system like now, which is constant with and corresponds to the seasons of the year. So while George Washington was born on the 22nd feb 1732, his parents must have thought it was the 11th when he was born. \nI don't know how far historic dates get modernized to reflect calendar changes.
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mankind didn't "invent" the system of time, but just rather makes use of it. time is something that we "notice" as the laws of thermodynamics occur in the universe. everything is cooling down and so time progresses... sort of. thats another subject (time doesnt really exist)...\n"standard time" on the other hand is something that we began to use to - believe it or not - to keep up with train schedules. it is merely standardized for many regions to use and not confuse anyone. first thought of by Dr. William Wollaston (1766-1828) is was adopted by the The Great Western Railway in November 1840 - GMT London time was born! standard time was instituted in the US by the railroads on Nov. 18, 1883 (about the same time as the electric safety elevator)\nthe idea of daylight savings time - used to make better use of the daylight - was conceived by Benjamin Franklin while he was in Paris in 1784. \nUTC is Coordinated Universal Time and helps keep everyone on schedule.\nas for waaaaay back in history, we just kept noticing people getting older and dying and stories getting handed down the line. many different calendars were made by the watching stars farther back than most "written" records go, but the modern calendar is gregorian and centers around the birth of Christ - but is about 4 to 6 years off (on the late end).
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the romans,its refered to as the julian calendar
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by the world wide calender, it's either winter or spring.  If you mean what season we start in, it's winter.  If you want which season starts first, it's spring.  Then again, you must remember, thanks to Julius Caesar our calender is screwed up. DECemember (tenth) OCTober (eighth). JAnuary February were added in the wrong place.