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Julian calendar
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calendar introduced by Julius Caesar in 45 BC
The Julian calendar is a system for tracking days and months that Julius Caesar introduced in 45 BC to help organize the Roman Empire's timekeeping. It matters historically because it was widely used for over 1,600 years and laid the groundwork for the calendar system many people still use today.
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- Instance of
- interval scale
- Subclass of
- calendar system
- Has part
- day
- Named after
- Julius Caesar
- Creator
- Sosigenes of Alexandria
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- replaced by
- Gregorian calendar
- Commons category
- Julian calendars
- topic's main category
- Category:Julian calendar
- Commons gallery
- Julian calendar
- different from
- Julian year
- inception
- 0045-00-00
- replaces
- Roman calendar
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
- P8168
- Georgetown County
- location of creation
- Roman Empire
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The Tusculum portrait of Julius Caesar
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