Why Julius Caesar's Year of Confusion was the longest year in history
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To tame a hopelessly disorganised Roman calendar, Julius Caesar added months, took them away, and invented the leap year.

I edited the title because my grammar is terrible

  • rockerface 🇺🇦@lemm.eeEnglish
    20·
    10 months ago

    I mean, March used to be the first month. Traditionally, New Year used to be a spring holiday. In Ukraine, the original lyrics of the Carol of the Bells sing about the spring beginning

    • Dark ArcAEnglish
      13·
      10 months ago

      March or April being the first month honestly would make so much more sense

      • GladiusB@lemmy.worldEnglish
        52·
        10 months ago

        Not for Christmas. Too many equate the holidays with the end of the year celebrating.

          • crapwittyname@lemm.eeEnglish
            6·
            10 months ago

            It should be Easter anyway. Jesus was born. So what - we’re all born at some point.
            But then Jesus rose from the dead? Now that’s worth celebrating.

            Also bunnies and eggs for some reason?

          • Dark ArcAEnglish
            1·
            10 months ago

            It used to be a spring holiday anyways

    • Gork@lemm.eeEnglish
      71·
      10 months ago

      Ukraine recently moved it back though to align with the Western New Year celebrations if I recall correctly. More of a “fuck Russia we’re gonna do our own thing” cultural move.

      • rockerface 🇺🇦@lemm.eeEnglish
        8·
        10 months ago

        That’s not what we moved. We moved Christian holidays 2 weeks back to align with Gregorian calendar. Because the Orthodox Christians would count it by Julian Calendar (with Christmas on 7th January). But yeah, we did do that to be closer to European countries than to Russia