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Excerpt from Outlines of American Colonial History Julian Calendar. 46 B. C. Every year exactly divisible by four a leap year. This made average year 365 1-4 days, which was too long, so that the solar outran the calendar year. Reform of Gregory XIII. 1582 A. D. The calendar had fallen ten days behind in 1582. Gregory dropped ten days, i. E. Added them to the date. Also provided that centurial years should be leap years only when divisible by 400. This makes average year 365 days, 5 hours, 49 minutes, 12 seconds, which is less than 26 seconds too long and amounts to but one day in 3325 years. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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• Full title: Outlines of American Colonial History (Classic Reprint)
• Author: Frank Heywood Hodder
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 52
• EAN: 9781333941543
• ISBN: 1333941544
• ID: 14586658
• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Weight: 85 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 3 mm
• Date of publishing: 13. October 2016

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