(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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

For one year, more than two centuries ago, September 3-13 didn't exist in the British Empire. Overnight, citizens were transported from Wednesday, September 2, 1752 to Thursday, September 14. The loss ...