NOUN
- the solar calendar introduced in Rome in 46 b.c. by Julius Caesar and slightly modified by Augustus, establishing the 12-month year of 365 days with each 4th year having 366 days and the months having 31 or 30 days except for February
How To Use Julian calendar In A Sentence
- Residents on Foula in the Shetland Isles still mark the holidays according to the Julian calendar, with Yule on January 6 and Newerday seven days later. Times, Sunday Times
- Pope Gregory XIII ordered a new calendar (the Gregorian Calendar) to replace the old Julian Calendar.
- The Christian calendar was originally based on the Julian calendar of the Romans.
- the Julian calendar
- The Julian calendar was introduced by Julius Caesar and hence carries his name.
- The Gregorian calendar introduced the concept of skipping three of four century years as a leap year, and so keeps the balance a bit better than the Julian calendar.
- By 1582 the Julian calendar was out of sync with the seasons by several days.
- The Greater Blessing of Water is performed on the Feast of the Epiphany (in the Julian calendar, January 19).
- Under the Old Julian calendar , the popular choice of 5 BC for the year of Jesus's birth would place the 25th of Kislev on the 25th of November.
- The Christian calendar was originally based on the Julian calendar of the Romans.
