The bulk of the credit for standardizing New Year's Day goes to Julius Caesar, who seized absolute power over Rome in 46 B.C., only to find that the mighty empire's calendar was hopelessly broken.

Everybody knows that the standard year has 365 days. But that is actually a fairly controversial statement historically, as well as being scientifically inaccurate. As was discussed in our article ...

February usually has 28 days due to a combination of historical, astronomical, and cultural factors.

Eventually, during Julius Caesar's rule, the calendar no longer matched the actual seasons so the emperor adopted a 365-day calendar and added 10 days the calendar, including a leap day in ...

A superb general and politician, Julius Caesar (c.100 BC – 44 BC / Reigned ... At home, he reformed the Roman calendar, tackled local government, resettled veterans into new cities, made the ...