Like the Gregorian calendar, the Julian calendar has 12 months and 365 days "with each fourth year having 366 days and the months each having 31 or 30 days except for February which has 28 or in ...

But though the Julian calendar would stick around for centuries, the date of its new year wasn’t always honored by its adopters. Instead, Christians celebrated the new year on various feast days.

That Time Feb. 30 Was a Real Date on the Calendar If you were born on a Leap Day and find that aggravating, imagine being born on a day that then ceased to exist entirely.

Unfortunately, it wasn’t quite close enough. The average year in the Julian calendar was still 11 minutes and 14 seconds longer than the solar year, so calendar errors started to stack up.

Newswatch 16's Jack Culkin stopped by St. John's Russian Orthodox Cathedral in Mayfield to check out their Christmas celebration.

In the Julian calendar, the new year began on March 25. So March 24, 1701 would be followed directly by March 25, 1702. The Gregorian calendar, as we know today, begins on January 1.

Per the Julian calendar, each year began on the spring equinox, which usually fell around April 1. Under the Gregorian Calendar, however, the new year started on January 1.