(WHTM) — In 45 B.C.E. Rome adopted a new calendar proposed by Julius Caesar which, not surprisingly, became known as the Julian Calendar. (Credit where credit is due: a Greek astronomer and ...

It was not a time machine, nor a TARDIS that caused 11 days to go missing from the calendar in 1752. It was a calendar change, a long overdue one in fact. For centuries, much of the world had existed ...

If today is your birthday, consider yourself lucky. Had you been alive in 1752, there would have been no party for you. That was the year the British Empire dropped the Julian calendar. To get current ...

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 11 days. According to NASA, the Earth ...

Did you happen to check the date this morning? It's Feb. 22, and according to the calendar, George Washington's birthday. Yes. Then again, no. Our nation's first president was actually born on Feb. 11 ...