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The Gregorian Calendar, which is also internationally the most widely accepted and used civil calendar, the unofficial global standard for decades, and recognized by international institutions such as the United Nations and the Universal Postal Union.
The calendar was a reform in 1582 to the Julian calendar, introduced by Pope Gregory XIII (after whom the calendar is now named) by papal bull Inter gravissimas, 24 February 1582. The error accumulated in 13 centuries was corrected by a deletion of ten days. The last day of the Julian calendar was Thursday, 4 October 1582 and this was followed by the first day of the Gregorian calendar, Friday, 15 October 1582.
It took centuries for the whole world to adopt this as the definitive calendar. Greece was the last country to adopt it (1923) and countries which have not adopted it include Saudi Arabia, Ethiopia, Nepal, Iran and Afghanistan.
The year 1 marks the year in which Our Lord Jesus Christ was born - a date estimated in the VI Century and still confirmed today) and years were marked as "Anno Domini" (or, in Italian, "d.C", "dopo Cristo"). The term "Christian Era" was also used; however the denomination "Common Era" or "Current Era" was assumed in the mid-19th and 20th century in academic and scientific publications as a result of widespread secularism and atheism.
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Catholic AnswerThe other calendar which the Church uses, (other than the Gregorian, as noted above) is the Liturgical Calendar, the new year begins with the first Sunday of Advent (the first of the four Sundays before Christmas, which always falls on the 25th of December). The Liturgical Calendar is a cobbled together version of the Jewish lunar calendar and the Gregorian Civil calendar. Everything hinges on Easter; the Western Church has always celebrated the Christian Pasch (Easter) on the Sunday following the fourteenth day of the full moon of the vernal equinox because it was the anniversary of Christ's resurrection. The Council of Nicaea (A.D. 325) reached a final settlement on the date by decreeing that Easter must be universally celebrated in the Christian world on the Sunday following the fourteenth day of the paschal moon, whose fourteenth day followed the spring equinox. The Roman Church adopted a cycle of ninety-five years for determining the date of Easter, and the remaining hold-outs, the Celts finally conceded and gave up their cycle of 532 years in the ninth century.
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