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CALENDAR- a chart or series of pages showing the days, weeks, and months of a particular year, or giving particular seasonal information.

IMPORTANCE OF CALENDAR- Calendars are useful tools for keeping track of upcoming meetings, deadlines, and milestones. They can help you visualize your schedule and remind you of important events, such as holidays and vacation time.

INFORMATION DOES CALENDAR CONTAIN- A calendar is used to display dates and related information, usually in a table format. Calendars are used to plan future events and keep track of appointments, and so a typical calendar will include days of the week, week numbering, months, public holidays and clock changes.

TWO TYPES OF CALENDAR- Calendars fall into four types, lunisolar, solar, lunar, seasonal, besides calendars with "years" of fixed length, with no intercalation. Most pre-modern calendars are lunisolar. The seasonal calendars rely on changes in the environment rather than lunar or solar observations.

HOW IS A CALENDAR MADE- Most of the Western word used the Julian calendar, which was put into place and named after Julius Caesar on 45 BCE, which was the year 709 for them since their calendar started on the year Rome was founded). The Julian calendar had 365 days every year with an extra day every four years.

HOW DOES A CALENDAR WORK- A year is defined as the amount of time it takes for the Earth to orbit the sun one time. It takes about 365 days to do that. ... By adding one extra day to every fourth year, we get an average of 365.25 days per year, which is fairly close to the actual number.

WHO MADE THE FIRST CALENDAR- Historians believe timekeeping goes as far back as the Neolithic period, but actual calendars weren't around until the Bronze Age in 3100 BC. The Sumerians in Mesopotamia made the very first calendar, which divided a year into 12 lunar months, each consisting of 29 or 30 days.

WHAT CALENDAR DO WE USE? The Gregorian calendar The Gregorian calendar is the calendar used in most of the world

HOW MANY CALENDAR DO WE HAVE? According to a recent estimate, there are about forty calendars used in the world today, particularly for determining religious dates. Most modern countries use the Gregorian calendar (see the Year) for their official activities.

HOW IS THE OLDEST CALENDAR? The oldest calendar still in use is the Jewish calendar, which has been in popular use since the 9th century BC. It is based on biblical calculations that place the creation at 3761 BC.

WHICH WAS THE FIRST CALENDAR? The Sumerian calendar The Sumerian calendar was the earliest, followed by the Egyptian, Assyrian and Elamite calendars. A larger number of calendar systems of the ancient Near East appear in the Iron Age archaeological record, based on the Assyrian and Babylonian calendars.

WHAT IS THE BEST CALENDAR SYSTEM- The 7 Best Shared Calendars for Teams Calendly. Calendly is often the first to come to mind when thinking about team, auto-syncing, industry-standard calendars. ... Google Calendar. It is a shared calendar designed for teams, and it's easily integrated into almost anything you use. ... Taskworld. ... Outlook. ... Teamup. ... iCloud.

WHO DECIDED THE CALENDAR- Pope Gregory XIII In 1582, when Pope Gregory XIII introduced his Gregorian calendar, Europe adhered to the Julian calendar, first implemented by Julius Caesar in 46 B.C. Since the Roman emperor's system miscalculated the length of the solar year by 11 minutes, the calendar had since fallen out of sync with the seasons.

WHO DID CALENDAR START? When Julius Caesar introduced his calendar in 45 B.C.E., he made 1 January the start of the year, and it was always the date on which the Solar Number and the Golden Number were incremented. ... The historical year, which started on 1 January. The liturgical year, which started on the first Sunday in advent.

WHAT IS OUR CALENDAR BASED UPON? What is the Gregorian calendar? The Gregorian calendar is a solar dating system used by most of the world. It is named for Pope Gregory XIII, who issued the papal bull Inter gravissimas in 1582, announcing calendar reforms for all of Catholic Christendom.

WHO NAMED THE MONTH? Our lives run on Roman time. Birthdays, wedding anniversaries, and public holidays are regulated by Pope Gregory XIII's Gregorian Calendar, which is itself a modification of Julius Caesar's calendar introduced in 45 B.C. The names of our months are therefore derived from the Roman gods, leaders, festivals, and numbers.

WHEN DID WE START COUNTING YEARS? The Anno Domini dating system was devised in 525 by Dionysius Exiguus to enumerate the years in his Easter table.

IS THE CALENDAR BASED ON JESUS? The Christian calendar was created by an Eastern European monk named Dionysius Exiguus. He invented the now commonly used Anno Domini (A.D.) era, which counts years based on the birth of Jesus. He came up with this concept in the year 525, or, 525 years after the birth of Jesus.

WHICH COUNTRY HAS DIFFERENT CALENDAR? Ethiopia While the first 12 months have 30 days, the last month, called Pagume, has five days and six days in a leap year. Till date, Ethiopia uses its ancient calendar, which hardly creates any inconvenience for travellers because of the calendar difference.