Why the year AD1 was also a new era for ancient China
The history of Wang Mang, a Han dynasty minister and imperial cousin who later founded his own short-lived dynasty, resonates ...
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The Gregorian calendar: ‘lost days’ and leap years
Why was this so? Who decreed this ‘loss’? On October 5, 1582, Pope Gregory XIII (1502-85, reigned 1572-85) issued his papal bull Inter gravissimas (In the gravest concern) which modified and ...