Whats up with the Gregorian Calendar?
The Gregorian Calendar is currently used by most of the Western World…yet few of us can accurately state where it came from, or how many other calendars are in use around the world today. Where did it come from? The Gregorian calendar was modestly named after Pope Gregory XIII, who commissioned it. It was created by a Jesuit astronomer in 1592 – and not adopted by Britan and the colonies of America until the 1750s! Many people are surprised to learn that people in the American colonies actually rioted when the new calendar was imposed upon them! Protestants believed that it was a Catholic plot to drag them back into Catholocism, and multitudes of people were distraught that the new calendar had “stolen” days from their lives. Why? The earlier Roman calendar, (Julian Calendar), had been used for about 1600 years previously, but due to mathematical inaccuracies it had drifted increasingly away from celestial time markers, such as the Equinoxes and Solstices. The Gregorian calendar, in
