(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 ...

People who were living in Britain or any other English colonies went to bed on 2 September 1752 and woke up on 14 September 1752. The reason? The Calendar (New Style) Act, 1750. People at that time ...

This day in 1752 saw Britain and its colonies “lose” 11 days, as it switched from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar. If, in 1752, you'd arranged to do anything on any day between 2 ...

Have you ever wondered why most months have 30 and 31 days, except for February which has 28 days and 29 in the case of a leap year? Although before Pope Gregory XIII developed the Gregorian calendar ...

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 ...

George Washington and other British colonists went to sleep on Sept. 2, 1752; when they awoke the next morning, it was Sept. 14, 1752. Ben Franklin marveled at how pleasant it was for an old man to go ...

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 ...

With calendar-like predictability, 4 October marks the 434th anniversary of the introduction of the Gregorian calendar. The happy occasion has been celebrated with the release of a date-themed Google ...