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_PM_ME_PANGOLINS_ t1_j1nrdip wrote

It wasn’t a fixed period. Saturnalia was the inter-calendar period, and the priests were supposed to measure the solstice and work out when to start the next year so the farming seasons lined up properly.

Because of a general failure to do this properly, for a number of reasons, Julius Caesar reformed it with a 365-day year and leap year every four.

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Chickentrap t1_j1p20ne wrote

I'm pretty sure the 365 calander came far later than Caesar. Caesar renamed the fifth and sixth months after himself and Augustus, but they still had a 10 month calander with roughly 60 days a year going unaccounted for.

E: Nevermind, I'm talking shit it was Caesar

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_PM_ME_PANGOLINS_ t1_j1uua1i wrote

Augustus wasn't called Augustus until after Julius Caesar was dead.

The Roman calendar had twelve months for the entire Republican period. According to legend, Romulus invented a 10-month one that was used for a bit, but he may have never existed in the first place. It was probably an early Roman King who replaced it.

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