If the year can be evenly divided by 100, it is not a leap year unless the year is also evenly divisible by 400, according to mathisfun.com. For example, 2000 and 2400 are leap years, but 1800 ...

But though the Julian calendar would stick around for centuries, the date of its new year wasn’t always honored by its adopters. Instead, Christians celebrated the new year on various feast days.

The year 1700 was a leap year by the Julian calendar but not by the Gregorian, and therefore March 1, 1700, Julian, corresponded to March 12, 1700, Gregorian, the difference then amounting to ...

This brought the average length of the Gregorian year to 365.2425 days, off by just 26 seconds compared to a solar year. While under the Julian calendar, a day shift accumulated every 129 years ...

A Julian calendar Christmas in Lackawanna County. Story by Jack Culkin • 1w. A chilly January 7th Christmas celebration began at St. John's Russian Orthodox Cathedral in Mayfield.

Thursday (Feb. 29) is "leap day," an artifact that dates back to the year 46 B.C. Find out how this calendar oddity came to be.

In the Julian calendar, the new year began on March 25. So March 24, 1701 would be followed directly by March 25, 1702. The Gregorian calendar, as we know today, begins on January 1. ...

Per the Julian calendar, each year began on the spring equinox, which usually fell around April 1. Under the Gregorian Calendar, however, the new year started on January 1.