The Western world celebrates New Year's Day on the first of January, though that was not always the case, and it took at least two major calendrical reforms in as many millennia to cement Jan. 1 ...
The Schism of 1054, “the Great Schism,” had already split Roman Christianity ... The Julian calendar was not just the calendar, but part of the unbroken legacy of the ancient world from ...
Ancient Rome was quite a different story, it added. By 45 BC, the new Julian calendar was created, and the civil year in Rome now officially began on January 1. The Gregorian calendar also ...