In order to fully sync the calendar with the lunar year, the Roman king Numa Pompilius added January and February to the original 10 months. February is the only month to have a length of fewer than 30 days. Originally, February was made the last month of the calendar year. The month after that was Xanthicus or April.
Xanthicus normally contained 31 days. During leap years, a leap day is added to the calendar to slow down and synchronize the calendar year with the seasons. Leap days were first added to the Julian Calendar in 46 B. Because February has 29 days in leap-years which is every 4 years , and 28 days in all other years. So there are no years in which February has only 27 days.
The current week week 22 is highlighted…. Week Numbers for Of particular note was the Swedish Empire which includes modern day Finland , which decided not to adopt it at first.
But in the late s, they thought better of it, and decided it was time to join the rest of the world. Yet even then, they were in no rush, and formulated a plan to ease into Gregorian adoption.
Instead of dropping eleven days off their calendar all at once, they decided to simply ignore all the leap years from until , thereby losing the eleven days over a four decade period. Unfortunately, the plan went awry. For some reason, the Empire forgot to skip the leap years in both and — they had managed to drop only one day in eight years, and, even worse, were now no longer aligned with other holdouts still using the Julian calendar.
So the King decided to fix the problem in Instead of simply dropping ten more days and joining the Gregorian nations, he instead rejoined the Julian ones. In , the Empire had two leap days — one as usual, and one to make up for the lost day in This is confirmed by successive dates found in daily issues of Pravda , the official newspaper of the Communist Party, in which February had 28 days in and , in accordance with the Gregorian calendar.
The Soviet revolutionary calendar was discarded as it was difficult to eliminate the Sunday rest tradition. The original seven-day week was restored in The 13th century scholar Johannes de Sacrobosco claimed that February had 30 days in leap years between 45 BCE and 8 BCE in the Julian calendar, when February was shortened to give the month of August the same length as the month of July. However, historical evidence relating to the Julian calendar refutes Sacrobosco, who was critical of that particular calendar.
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