The Dalai Lama has announced that he intends to reincarnate, paving the way for a successor to take on a mantle stretching ...

This perplexed many people, including the Catholic Church, which based its holidays on the vernal, or spring, equinox. In 1582, Pope Gregory XIII (hence the name, Gregorian calendar) decreed that ...

Gregorian calendar is today's internationally accepted calendar but that wasn't always the case. Before 1752, Britain and its Empire followed the Julian calendar, implemented by Julius Caesar in ...

From ancient civilisations to modern nations, calendars have long served as tools to track time, organise society, and mark ...

Over time, the Gregorian calendar was adopted by countries around the world — Japan in 1873, China in 1912, and Saudi Arabia in 2016, just to name a few. It is now the closest thing we have on ...

The Gregorian calendar, instituted by Pope Gregory XIII, went into effect in 1582. In the 1,417 years from 1583 through 3000, it’s most common for Easter to fall on April 16, with 61 instances.

The Gregorian calendar, as we know today, begins on January 1. "To avoid confusion, record-keepers used a system in which they would use two years for dates between January 1 and March 24.

A common year has 365 days on the calendar while a leap year boasts that extra day. Their purpose keeps our calendar in sync with the seasons and solar year, or the length of time it takes the ...

When the country finally did adopt the Gregorian calendar in full in 1753, 11 days had to be excised from the month of February, with the result that the calendar skipped directly from Feb. 17 to ...

In 2025, the calendar matches 1941, sparking online buzz and historical comparisons. While just a date pattern, it’s fueling ...