Every March 15, the dark history behind the 74th day in the Roman calendar has led many to think of bad omens and doom, but the day has a deep history and purpose. The date has been used in a variety ...

Julius Caesar in 45 B.C. adjusted the Roman calendar, which had been thrown into chaos by the time he came into power. Select an option below to continue reading this premium story. Already a Honolulu ...

As the new year arrives, we often find ourselves lost in the transition of dates and months. However, the pages of the ...

H/T to Eric J. Lyman at Religion News Service for his blog item: Meet the priests of Italy’s ‘Roman beefcake’ calendar Officially, it’s called “Il Calendario Romano” — The Roman Calendar — but it is ...

Imagine a year so long, it had 15 months and lasted 445 days. That was the year 46 BC, also known as the Year of Confusion. This period in Roman history was marked by a chaotic calendar system that ...

Numa Pompilius receives the laws of Rome from the nymph Egeria, a work by Felice Giani. Credit: Public domain / Wikimedia Commons According to Ovid, Varro, Fulvius, and other classical sources, the ...

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 as ...

2024 is a leap year, which means that this February will have an extra day tacked onto the end. But why February? Why not put Leap Day at the beginning of the year, say Jan. 0, or at the end, Dec. 32?