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Who started the modern calendar?

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Anonymous

12y ago
Updated: 8/19/2019

The exact calendar that we used today was created by Pope Gregory XIII in the mid-1700s. The original basis for this calendar was the Julian Calendar (the difference between them was the timing of leap years) and the Julian Calendar was invented by Julius Caesar, Emperor of Rome.

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