Despite leap years, the Julian calendar is said not enough was approached to astronomical cycles, before the calendar year and had a few minutes more than the solar cycle. It was a mistake, very important, and that actually seems senseless, but it was collecting and accumulating, and almost in 1100, the spring came in March, advanced, and not 21 as it should be. This led to trigger a difference in the annual cycle of ten full days.
Thus, to improve this error, Pope Gregory XIII asked Clavius, astronomer, to undertake a new and modern calendar. It was in 1583 that the pope performed reform the calendar, and this tied in a mandatory way the rest of the countries to adapt and to change day by high, approximately 10 days, and the stations would fall in the right way. This improves error annual just seconds, and then it was the pope who introduced the first of January as a day of the New Year.
Europe immediately introduced this new schedule, but those countries that Protestants were not wanted and refused to do so. There were problems in London, many riots, which were launched to reclaim outraged day sauteed. In the US president, at that time Franklin, advised that sleeping peacefully at an early date and to begin the other day, they would be automatically advanced 10 more days.
One of the countries that have the Julian calendar was Russia, which remained in this country for 200 years more. After the Bolshevik revolution, this will remove 13 days to put it in combination with other European countries. But since the church does not accept, until now follows the Julian calendar and celebrate Christmas and the January 7.
The importance of the Gregorian calendar
The problem of the origin of our Era was resolved with the creation of the Gregorian calendar: if it says that the Christian era began 1582 years before its creation and all countries respect this idea, any discussion should end, and the issues of when Christ was born or what the established Dionisio Meager they lose importance (at least from the standpoint of time measurement). The final issue was the adoption of the calendar and, as we have seen, all countries of the world have been taking over time.
And here is where we can highlight the value of this measuring instrument: if everyone agrees, all discussions on the subject can spare. We can travel to any country, and to buy a calendar or schedule, it will always be the Gregorian calendar this year. You can vary the location of the start and end of week (Sunday or Monday) or language, but it will be the same schedule.
And a tool that takes just a correction of 1 day every 3300 years or so, is an extraordinary development that is a magnificent heritage of Western culture.
It is worth pointing out, too, that on the basis of respect for other cultures or countries that do not have as much faith in the beliefs of the Catholic Church and other Christian churches, and one might say that the effects of Modernity has, the typical abbreviations BC (BC) and A.D. (After Christ) have been replaced respectively by aem (Formerly of the Modern Era) and e.m. (Modern Era), or by a.e.a. (Before the current era) and e.a. (Present era), is also used a.n.e. (BC) and d.n.e. (Our time), which is used by more atheists. Besides that may qualify these abbreviations (BC - AD) as antiquated and obsolete, given the mistakes made by Dionysius the Meager (move in a year as the birth of Jesus, marking this year as the year 1: Jesus born with a year age, according to Meager). When we express something about the year 1 AD We are dealing with something happened in the year Zero (which does not exist), the year in which Jesus was born, according to the Gregorian system. And what happened in the year Zero will, therefore, the year 1 BC Therefore, we would be a year ago. Thus, the year 2000 a.e.m. 2001 would be the year a.e.m.
Some authors argue that the mistake made by Dionisio "Meager" was higher: between three and six years, the result of his calculations, using periods of government, both Roman rulers, and those in the region where Jesus was born, using sources Extra-biblical that are known today. Thus, the Latin American Bible indicates that Jesus of Nazareth was born in the year -3, or which had three years at the beginning of our era.
However, all this has no value in practice: we are governed by the Gregorian calendar, which is accepted throughout the world.
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