THE CALENDAR The Egyptians determined the true length of the year— each. 365.242 days and divided it into 12 months of 30 days were devoted The 5 extra days (or 6 extra days in Leap Year) three 10-day into divided was month The . holidays to festival periods. B.C. After the conquest of Egypt, Julius Caesar, in 46| except, Empire, Roman the for r calenda n adopted the Egyptia the equal says George Eastman, that he did not continue days extra 5 the months of the Egyptians. He distributed every other month, throughout the year by adding one day to November, and and ber Septem July. January. March, May. y. Februar off day one took days in 28 B.C., Augustus Caesar, in order to have as many birth the in were there as ) (August in the month of his birth history month of Julius Caesar (July) and also to be known in as having altered the calendar, moved the 29th day of Febru- ary to August. to the Property owners who rented by the quarter objected have would there as change, his by caused s unequal quarter been 90 days in the first quarter and 93 in the third. Augustus compromised by moving September 3ist to October 3/ist. That caused two 3l-day months to come together, and a further change was made by moving November 3Ist to December 3lst. The calendar of the two Caesars, Julius and Augustus, was fourth based upon a 365-25 day year, with e Leap Year every year. The actual year is 365.242 day was accumulated every year. days, therefore, .008 of a By 1582, the accumulation that had amounted to 10 days, and Pope Gregory XII in |& r Octobe and 5 r Octobe n betwee days year ordered the 10 dropped from the calendar, and adopted the present rule fer Leap Year. It is said that Gregory's purpose was to keep the Equinox to the same day of the year. The Gregorian her colonies in graded Calendar was introduced into England 1752 at which time the Equinox had and retro- || days since the Council of Nice in A.D. 325, when the rule for Easter Day was established and the Equinox occurred on March 21; hence September 3, 1752, was called September 14, and at the same time the commencement of the legal year was changed from March 25 to January |, so that the year 1751 lost the months of January and February and the first 24 days of March. The difference between Julian and Gregorian Calendars is 13 days. The Mosaic 7-day week of the Hebrews was made legal by Constantine the Great in 321 A.D., when he adopted Christlanity. The Romans used an 8-day week prior to the Christian Era. The eighth day was Market Day. The 7-day week was legalized by Constantine. The Pagan Sun's Day made the Christian Sabbath. The International Fixed Calendar provides months of 4 weeks each, the weeks consisting, as The added month, to be called Sol, is inserted and July. . Lord's Day or a year of 13 now, of 7 days. between June Inasmuch as 13 months of 28 days constitute only 364 days, Eastman suggests an extra day at the close of the year, to to be known as Year-Day, dated December 29, as the eighth day in that week. In Leap Years, in the International Fixed Calendar what is now called February 29, would be Leap-Day, and, as such, would become June 29.