Gregory XIII establishes the Gregorian calendar
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- A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years pp. 713-716 · open book
An energetic and intellectually curious pope, Gregory XIII, took it upon himself, with the new-found papal confidence of the Counter-Reformation, to reform the deficiencies of the existing Julian calendar, from 15 October 1582
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