Someone literally scrolled all the way back to October 1582 on their iPhone calendar and found that it jumps straight from ...

In honor of Leap Day, this read is for the history nerds. Ever wonder how America caught our calendar up with the rest of the world? In September 1752, we skipped 11 days. According to NASA, the Earth ...

For something that’s meant to lend order to our lives, the modern Western calendar has a messy history. The mess, in part, comes about because of the difficulty of coordinating the orbits of celestial ...

TAYLOR, Pa. -- For Orthodox Christians who follow the Julian calendar all around the world, January 7 is Christmas Day. People gathered inside St. George's Orthodox Church in Taylor for a special mass ...

In 1582 it corrected the Julian calendar, shortening the average year by 0.0075 days to stop the drift with respect to the equinoxes In 1582, Thursday, October 4 was followed by Friday, October 15. In ...

A senior Russian Orthodox Church official is calling for Russia to return back to its traditional Julian calendar that was used until February 1918. In a televised interview with church-affliliated ...

Nearly two weeks after celebrating New Year, many Serbians did it again on Tuesday evening, this time according to old Orthodox Christian tradition. Some Eastern Orthodox churches follow the ancient ...