🏛️📆 By 46 BCE, #Rome’s calendar had drifted so badly that #spring festivals happened in what should have been #winter. Priest-politicians had manipulated the system for centuries, adding or skipping months to benefit allies.

Julius Caesar added 90 days to the year – making it 445 days total – then scrapped the old lunar system for a #solar calendar. The Julian calendar became the foundation of the one we use today, though Roman priests immediately botched the leap-year rules after Caesar’s assassination.

👉 https://www.zmescience.com/feature-post/history-and-humanities/history/the-longest-year-in-history-lasted-445-days-because-romes-calendar-had-completely-fallen-apart/

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