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    (October 15, 1582- )
    Born in Vatican City, Italy
    365 or 366 days per year
    Named by and for Pope Gregory XIII
    Papal bull signed on February 24, 1582

Why Gregorian Calendar might be annoying:

    It was designed specifically to correct when Easter would be celebrated.
    In 1577, mathematicians determined that Easter should be set on a specific date rather than a formula - it was rejected.
    The day after Thursday, October 4, 1582 (Julian) is Friday, October 15, 1582.
    It created historical confusion about whether a historic date is reported in Julian or recalculated to Gregorian. This is compounded by the fact that it was introduced in 1582, but not accepted by the British until 1752.
    Sweden and Finland proposed to remove all leap days from 1700-1740 to synchronize calendars. This got goofed up so they added a February 30th in 1712 and returned to the Julian calendar.
    Protestant countries were reluctant to use this calendar because it came from the Catholic church.
    To keep the calender synchronized with the solar year, leap seconds have occasionally been added since 1972.
    Leap days should occur at the end of the year, but are added in February (which was the end of the year when March 1 was new years, a throwback to ancient Roman calendars).
    British citizens were upset and rioted due to being charged rent and taxes for the 11 days that were removed.
    In 1867, Alaska accepted the calender by repeating the same day of the week twice and shifting the International Date Line.
    Russia did not accept the calendar until January 1918.
    Greece was the last European hold out and changed in March 1923.
    We still mistakenly begin centuries and decades in years that end in zero, since the first year was 1, decades should begin on 1s (like 2001, 2011).

Why Gregorian Calendar might not be annoying:

    A year is equal to one full revolution of the Earth around the Sun.
    Council of Trent determined a year is 365.2425 not 365.25 days, an error in the Julian Calendar (1563).
    It fixed the Julian calendar bug, which after 1600 years was 11 days out of sync with the solar year.
    Although Pope Gregory changed the calendar for religious reasons, most countries eventually adopted it.
    It removed 3 leap days every 400 years (years ending in 00 not divisible by 400 without a remainder).
    Spain, Portugal, Poland and Italy accepted the calendar immediately. The French and Dutch accepted it soon after.
    Britain ,and what would become the United States, accepted the calendar on Wednesday September 2, 1752 (next day was Thursday September 14th).
    Sweden ,after an unsuccessfully attempt to gradually go Gregorian, accepted this calendar in 1753.
    Non leap years always begin and end on the same day of the week.

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