To restore the calendar to its supposed original relation with the seasons, he extended the year of 45 B.C. This was creating disturbances and confusion throughout the Empire. the abuse of this practice was so great that the Spring Equinox was falling in winter. The result was that in troubled times, the Roman calendar gradually got out of hand, as people added or withdrew intercalary months for political reasons, and not to keep the seasons in order.īy the time Julius Caesar returned to Rome in 45 B.C. Those who they disliked found themselves out of office, even though an intercalary month was overdue. The Pontiffs decided when the intercalary month would occur: Consuls who they favored were given an extra month in office. In Roman times, the intercalary month became a way for the Roman Pontiffs to manipulate politics. This completed the solar year, and kept the seasons in order. For this reason, an intercalary month of varying length was added every two to three years. This result gave a year of 354 days, which followed the moons, but was far short of the 365-day solar year. The twelve months followed the actual lunar movement by adopting months of 29 and 30 days alternately. “Our calendar originally comes from a semi-lunar one, this is why the word month is so similar to the word moon. History of Leap Year Days – Why is there a Leap Year Day?įire in the lake: the image of Revolution. This historic document published in 2001 contains a summary review on the subject of calendar reform. In order to examine the true origins of this “hiccup in time” known as the “Leap Year Day” in more detail, we will now bring back to memory an excerpt from “The Campaign for the New Time”. March 8 also signals Woman´s Day celebrations around the world… We will expand on the importance of this in the future. In simple words: Mamarks the actual-factual 438th solar orbit since the institutionalization of this calendar. Since the initial 10-day difference between the Julian and the Gregorian counts is now 13 days, Febru(Julian) now corresponds to Ma(Gregorian).
NOTE: Before we continue, it is important to clarify that since we want to match the astronomical configuration of the planets for February 24, 1582, in relationship to their corresponding positions in 2020, we need to observe the Julian count. This may be the reason why the Gregorian Reform Bull was ALSO signed on Febru(Julian calendar). In the same way as the Julian calendar precedes the Gregorian Calendar, the Roman calendar precedes the Julian, and the day February 24 used to mark the LAST DAY of the Roman year. … TODAY is a perfect opportunity to dive deep into the ocean of TIME and comprehend the transcendental nature of the window comprised between February 24 to 29, 2020. February 28, 2020 marks the completion of a prophetic cycle of 7 YEARS since the day when Pope Benedict XVI stepped down as the head of the institution behind this reform… and…Ĥ.“Leap Day” February 29, 2020 can be considered a “time anomaly derived from this reform”… The Gregorian Reform of 1582 introduced the “Leap Year Rule” or “Intercalary Day Rule”…ģ. In the Julian calendar every fourth year is a leap year in which February has 29, not 28 days, but in the Gregorian, with the introduction of the “Leap Year Rule”, it was established that “ years divisible by 100 are not leap years unless they are also divisible by 400″. Therefore, the years 1600, 20 are leap years, while 1700, 1800, 1900, 2100, 22 are not leap years.ġ.
The Gregorian calendar is a minor correction to the Julian. The reform came to be regarded as a new calendar in its own right and came to be called the Gregorian calendar, which is used in most countries today.” – Wikipedia The document, written in Latin, reformed the Julian calendar. “Inter gravissimas was a papal bull issued by Pope Gregory XIII on Febru(Julian calendar).
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