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  1. The adoption of the Gregorian Calendar was an event in the early modern history of most cultures and societies, marking a change from their traditional (or "old style") dating system to the modern (or "new style") dating system – the Gregorian calendar – that is widely used around the world today.

  2. 17 de abr. de 2024 · The Gregorian calendar was adopted by much of Catholic Europe in 1582, as directed by Pope Gregory XIII in the papal bull Inter gravissimas, which was published in February of that year. Protestant and Eastern Orthodox countries initially refused to abide by the new calendar, and the reformed system was foreign to countries outside ...

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  3. — United States Naval Observatory. There were two reasons to establish the Gregorian calendar. First, the Julian calendar assumed incorrectly that the average solar year is exactly 365.25 days long, an overestimate of a little under one day per century, and thus has a leap year every four years without exception.

  4. Eventually, non-Catholic countries did begin to adopt the Gregorian calendar. The Protestant regions of Germany and the Netherlands switched in the 17th century. Great Britain and the territories of the British Empire followed suit in 1752, spreading the Gregorian calendar around the globe.