mapuc
05-14-22, 08:35 AM
According to these historians we are
In 1582, Pope Gregory XIII introduced the Gregorian calendar. Prior to this, most of the Roman world and Europe had used the Julian calendar, proposed by Julius Caesar in 48 BC. In order to try and link the calendar up to the solar year (the time it takes for Earth to revolve around the Sun), the Julian calendar had a leap year every four years, in which an extra day was added.
https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/the-historians-that-believe-were-currently-living-in-the-year-1724/
Are they correct in their statement, is we in the year of the lord 1724 ?
Markus
In 1582, Pope Gregory XIII introduced the Gregorian calendar. Prior to this, most of the Roman world and Europe had used the Julian calendar, proposed by Julius Caesar in 48 BC. In order to try and link the calendar up to the solar year (the time it takes for Earth to revolve around the Sun), the Julian calendar had a leap year every four years, in which an extra day was added.
https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/the-historians-that-believe-were-currently-living-in-the-year-1724/
Are they correct in their statement, is we in the year of the lord 1724 ?
Markus