How did the calendar Bashny.Net

The days add up into weeks, weeks into months, and months into years. Without a calendar it would be difficult to determine what day or month. It consistently for the whole year painted days of the week and months.
The word "calendar" in translation from Latin means literally: "record loan", "debt book". The fact that in Ancient Rome debtors paid the debt or interest thereon to the day of the calends — the first day of the month. Hence the name. But at the Greek calends was not. So habitual defaulters ironically, the Romans said that they will return the debt to the Greek calends, that is, who knows when. This expression has become popular in many languages of the world. Well, there was a modern 12-month calendar thanks to the Roman Emperor Gaius Julius Caesar. Prior to this was in the course of a calendar of 10 months. In a four-year cycle to three years have 365 days and the fourth of 366 days. So managed to achieve compliance calendar time of the revolution of the Earth around the Sun.





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