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Calendars organize days into periods like weeks and months in order to track the passage of time and schedule important events. The most widely used modern calendar is the Gregorian calendar, introduced in the 16th century as an updated version of the Julian calendar used in ancient Rome. Early calendars developed with the invention of writing and varied depending on geographical and seasonal factors, with colder climates basing years on seasons and warmer areas using lunar cycles. The primary purposes of calendars are to measure past and future durations and schedule harvests, religious festivals, and other significant occasions.

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Calendars organize days into periods like weeks and months in order to track the passage of time and schedule important events. The most widely used modern calendar is the Gregorian calendar, introduced in the 16th century as an updated version of the Julian calendar used in ancient Rome. Early calendars developed with the invention of writing and varied depending on geographical and seasonal factors, with colder climates basing years on seasons and warmer areas using lunar cycles. The primary purposes of calendars are to measure past and future durations and schedule harvests, religious festivals, and other significant occasions.

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Origins Mukhriddin Ortikov

11/12/15 Ms.Sutjiawan

Calendars
What is calendars and what is the purpose of calendars ?
Calendars is a system of organizing days of social. This is done by
giving names to periods of time, typically, days, weeks, months,
years. The calendar in most widespreod use today is the Gregorian
calendar, introduced in the 16th century as a modification of the
Julian calendar, which was itself a modification of the Julian calendar,
which was itself a modification of the ancient Roman calendar. The
first recorded calendars date to the Bronze Age, dependent on the
development of writing in the Ancient Near East, the Egyptian and
sumerian calendars. The New Year in 709 AUC ( AD4 ). The resultant
Julian calendar remained in almost universal use in Europe until 1582.
The purpose of the calendar is to reckon past or future time, to show
how many days until a certain event takes place—the harvest or a
religious festival—or how long since something important happened.
The earliest calendars must have been strongly influenced by the
geographical location of the people who made them. In colder
countries, the concept of the year was determined by the seasons,
specifically by the end of winter. But in warmer countries, where the
seasons are less pronounced, the Moon became the basic unit for
time reckoning; an old Jewish book says that “the Moon was created
for the counting of the days.”

Sources
www.historyworld.net
www.infoplease.com
www.history.com
Old Egyptian calendar !

Daily life in ancient Rome: Calendar

Lunar calendar.

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