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Orthodox Christians celebrate Christmas on January 7. Their "new year" is next week, January 14. It's Julius Caesar's fault

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The Romans sometimes neglected to add an extra month every two years to find the difference between their lunar calendar and the natural year of the sun. Julius Caesar decreed that the year 46 BC had 445 days (some historians say unequivocally: 443 days) to put an end to the catastrophic conflicts that had accumulated over the past seven centuries. It was aptly named the "Year of Confusion".

To “reset” the calendar, Julius Caesar attached New Year's Day to January 1 (date Senate) and added a day or two to a few months.

He, therefore, opened the Julian Calendar, a translation of the last days of Aristarchus' calendar from 239 BC. After his assassination, Quintilis' moon was renamed Julius (July) in honour of him.

The Julian calendar calculates that the solar year (the time it takes for the earth to form one solar system) would be 365 days and six hours. Every fourth year six hours were added and added as extra days to the year, building a 366-day year.

But the basic calendar is 11 minutes and 14 seconds closed. It was beyond the natural year of the sun. Additional minutes were collected throughout the day. In 325 AD, the Spring Equinox arrived on March 21 on the Julian calendar - instead of March 25.

The First Council of the United States met in Nicea in 325 and decided that the date for celebrating Pascha was the first Sunday, after the first full month, after the Spring Equinox on March 21. In other words, it proved to be a distraction from the Julius calendar.

Thus, in 1582, the Spring Equinox arrived on March 11. The misguided actions of Pope Paul III and Pius V failed to establish a vital link between the calendar and the seasons.

Pope Gregory XIII has decided - in his 10th year in office - to reduce the three-year deadline to 400 by saying that any year with a number ending in 00 must also be divided equally by 400 to have a 29-day February.

This will lead to bringing Julian's calendar closer to the natural length of the solar year - although a 26-second error per year will remain.

Balancing the Julian and Gregory calendars and returning the Spring Equinox to March 21, it was reduced to ten days on the state calendar October 1582. Thursday, October 4 followed by Friday, October 15. People rioted in the streets of Europe, definitely robbed for ten days.

But this was just a simple fictional story. The Spring Equinox on the Gregorian calendar was celebrated on March 21 permanently. However, according to the Julian calendar, the 17th century came on March 11, the 18th century on March 10, the 19th century on March 9, and the 20th century on March 8 - 13 days earlier, a date adopted by the Council of Nicea.

The Gregorian calendar was controversial in Protestant lands. Britain and its colonies accepted it only in 1752. They had to give up 11 days on the public calendar and cancel the official new year from March 25 to January 1. For centuries, the days followed by the OS (“Old Style”) Julian days calendar and NS days (“New Style”) according to Gregory. Sweden adopted the Gregorian Calendar in 1753, Japan in 1873, Egypt in 1875, Eastern Europe between 1912 and 1919 and Turkey in 1927. Following January 31, 1918, became February 14, 1918.

It was Pope Pius X, 1910, who changed the beginning of the religious year from Christmas Day to January 1, from 1911 onward.

All the while, the Orthodox Church continued to maintain the Julian calendar. In 1923, the Conference of Orthodox Churches in Constantinople reduced the number of discourses every 900 years and found a difference between the calendar and the natural solar year of only 2.2 seconds per year.

According to this calendar, the Spring Equinox will return in one day every 40,000 years.

They, too, have had to sacrifice 13 days to bring back the Spring Equinox on March 21. So the gap is between December 25 (Gregorian calendar) and January 7 (updated Julian-Orthodox calendar).

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