Show Of cow course so everybody knows known why wh leap year cane cumo to be necessary In n our measurement InO of fir time limn It was vita not lIot al nl always ways Ir to re 0 Tho Tito earliest astronomers of ot ofen our en history hl lory counted an set even ovon days In ht a n year loar anti And lot let jt It t go nt It that But the tho consequence wan un that they lost about I n a slay In ovary evary four years or nearly hearty u a I month In n a century Con Can Confusion Cant fusion t ton lon ensued ns ed Autumn canto came In the tho r To correct this Julius Cr tl nn nu Egyptian sage gage who him to add a day to 10 every fourth year Ho lie added 80 days to tho ho year In bt which the calendar was wan changed III In order to III tho iho spring to Its Ito It proper date AH As Unto passed however It was WIS found that the Julian calendar Wn was IB Imperfect too for tor n II year nr l II l not exactly days Iny and 6 G inure hours but Jul JC 06 days linn 5 0 hours 48 min attn minutes utes titos al 46 seconds The fhe Julian your year was WU therefore n a ruction fraction of ot nn an hour too I long oat Mill by hy the Ihl year au 1652 It was found I that the lute II spring had receded from front March Macch 5 where Julius had End lut It to Mardi March II Fourteen days had hoer been Pope Gregory XIII XUI then undertook a second reformation by b I ten lell days doys Since Sinco It was town known that hint lh the error In tho Julian ca en a lender amounted to three days In hr years mr th the Pope Papa ordered the tho extra day nf of It February to ho be omitted from nil all centenary ent years excepting those 1050 tho o that ago of or lOO thus Thu 1664 1600 was one u loop hoop year but bul 1100 1800 and 1000 were not nolo England adopted the tho calendar In 1152 but hUI It has n not nol yet et been adopted adapted In In tint that empire the ln t three centenary years yearn have been re to reo partied as liS leap nr Renee Hence II 11 0 ONg inal InAI ton ten days dl I divergence between ll the tho theold theold old style tylo and the new na has hUR now In Increased creased to o thirteen n It la Is nut not to be that dint Iho tho Gregorian Ur civil your year Is ls coincident with tho rho solar year It 11 t Is IR about 26 20 too loo long Hut But It la Is near Mar enough to eduse nu no In Inconvenience convenience |