Julius Caesar sought the advice of an astronomer while he was visiting Cleopatra in Egypt, who helped him create a plan to fix the calendar by creating one very long year. Rather than the usual ...

A superb general and politician, Julius Caesar (c.100 BC – 44 BC / Reigned 46 – 44 BC) changed the course of Roman history. Although he did not rule for long, he gave Rome fresh hope and a ...

And though historians generally agree that Roman civic and religious institutions had already switched to observing Jan. 1 as the conventional start of the new year long before Caesar rose to ...