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For questions about different systems of measuring time.
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Were the dates of saints days moved as part of the Gregorian calendar reforms?
The answer to your question is no. All fixed festivals remained on the same date, for example Christmas was celebrated on 25 December Julian, and then on 25 December Gregorian. However, the Gregorian …
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How come every culture on the planet has a different calendar, yet follow the same system fo...
We have an enormous amount of evidence for the ancient Babylonian calendar, but no evidence at all for a seven-day week in ancient Babylonia. …
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Why does Japan celebrate the Gregorian New Year but China still celebrates Chinese New Year?
It is not an either/or situation. In China they celebrate Gregorian New Year on 1 January and the traditional lunar New Year as well. It is the same in Vietnam.
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What calendar did the Mauryan Empire use?
There is no evidence for any calendar system in India at the time of Ashoka. His inscriptions do not mention any dates. Sometimes historians need to admit that they do not have the answers. …
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How was the current month and day disseminated to the townspeople of Medieval Europe?
In Western Christendom (and also in Byzantium) the universal system of time-keeping was the Julian calendar. You have asked specifically about “townspeople”. … But literate or not, there is no reason to doubt that they knew what the date was according to the Julian calendar. Merchants (for example) needed to know this. …