Time Keeping Flashcards
(6 cards)
Olympiads
Used Olympiads to tell time. period of four years example Rome is founded in the third year of the sixth Olympiad
Time in antiquity
Lists of office holders and priests
No specific way to keep the time
Lunar calendar
One month equals 29.53 days
One year is 354 days
11 days missing from our year and no leap year
Egyptian calendar
Had two solar calendar that was for civil uses a lunar calendar for religion
Also dated the year by the reign of the pharaohs
The Julian calendar
Calendar reform in 46 B.C.E. had 445 days
Leap years and a year now has 365 days
Georgian Calendar reform
Was in the 16th century Gregory the 13th
People aren’t sure when to celebrate holidays so in 1582 October 4 was immediately followed by October 14
No leap years in full century years that cannot be divided by 400
Average year became 365.2425 days
January 1 start the new year