How did the Calendar begin?

Question

How did the Calendar begin?

Answer 1

it begins with letters and numbers

Answer 2

Initially men noticed that there were approximately fixed number of days between one planting time & the next. This was their first attempt to find out how long a year was! The ancient Egyptians were the first to measure a year with any exactness. They knew that the best time to plant was sight after the Nile River between each overflowing the moon rose 12 times. So they counted 12 moonts or months, & figured out when the Nile would rise again. About 6000 years ago, Egyptian priests noticed that everytime about the occurrence of flood, a certain bright star would rise just before the sun rose. They counted the days that passed before this happened again & found that it added upto 365 days. They divided into 12 months of 30 days each, with 5 extra days at the end of the year. Thus they invented the first calendar. Eventually, the calendar was based on the number of days (365 ¼) it takes the Earth to go around the sun. The extra quarter of the day caused confusion until Julius Caesar ordered that the year 46 B.C. should have 445 days to “catch up”, & that every7 year from then on was to have 365 days, except every fourth year. This fourth year would have a Leap year of 366 days to use up the fraction left over in each ordinary year. But, it was discovered later that Easter & other holy days were not coming where they belonged in the seasons. In the year 1582, Pope Gregory XIII decided to do something about it. He ordered that ten days should be dropped from the year 1582 & leap year should be skipped in the last year of every century unless that year could be divided by 400. Thus, 1700, 1800, & 1900 were not leap years, but the year 2000 will be a leap year!