If January felt like endless, February may be refreshing since it's only 28 days long: Thank the Romans for that oddity.

Teymour Taj celebrates the beginning of 2025 by exploring the weird and wonderful history of calendars As 2025 rolled in, ...

In 1752, from Sept. 3rd to 13th, people witnessed a unique historical event. Eleven days were cut from the calendar and deleted forever.

Gregorian or English calendar was born after the Julian calendar of Julius Caesar, based upon Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), which is counted from midnight. The Kal Yug calendar of India is in its ...

Pope Francis said that the Catholic Church is ready to accept a single date for all Christians to celebrate Easter.

Meanwhile, while the former group - which is the most common and includes nations like the UK, France, Spain and Germany - also originally used the Julian calendar, they changed to the Gregorian ...

A remote Shetland island is celebrating its New Year's Day - two weeks after other parts of the world. Foula - which is home ...

Groups that may celebrate the Old New Year include Eastern Orthodox Christian Communities who follow the Julian calendar ... like the U.S. where the Gregorian calendar is standard.

By the mid-15th century, the Julian calendar had diverged from the solar cycle by 10 days. To correct this, Pope Gregory XIII introduced the Gregorian calendar in the 1570s, refining leap year ...

Gregorian or English calendar was born after the Julian calendar of Julius Caesar, based upon Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), which is counted from midnight. The Kal Yug calendar of India is in its ...