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 ...
Many countries celebrated Jan. 1 as first day of the new year and the Gregorian calendar. Here are some people who welcome ...
The Western world celebrates New Year's Day on the first of January, though that was not always the case, and it took at least two major calendrical reforms in as many millennia to cement Jan. 1 ...
(From tsar to U.S.S.R.: Learn more about Russia's chaotic year of revolution.) At the conference, Serbian scientist Milutin Milanković proposed a solution: a new version of the Julian calendar ...