A calendar notation in which the date is represented by one number. For example, the Julian date for December 11, 1942 is 2430705; while December 12, 1942 is 2430706. The Julian date is widely ...

At the time of creating the Julian calendar, Julius Caesar found it appropriate to have January as the first month of the year as it symbolises the doorway to a new year. Unsplash The calendar ...

1 as the conventional start of the new year long before Caesar rose to power, his Julian calendar, as it came to be known, was the first to codify it as such and ensured that Jan. 1 and other ...