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The last significant change to the Christian calendar was in 1582, when the Julian calendar was replaced by the Gregorian calendar, which has three fewer leap years in every 400-year period. The leap years that were changed to regular years are the last year of the first three of every four centuries (100, 200, 300, 500, 600, 700, 900, etc.). Although the Gregorian calendar was introduced in the 16th century, it wasn't until the 20th century that every country that used the Julian calendar had finally switched over.

The following minor change was made within the past century: Most non-Christians prefer to refer to the years before the year 1 as Before the Christian Era (BCE) rather than the traditional Before Christ (BC), and they refer to the years including and after 1 with "of the Christian Era" (CE) instead of the traditional Anno Domini (AD), Latin for "in the Year of the Lord". Thereby they can use the Christian calendar without referring to Jesus as the Christ or the Lord.

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