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Show Present Gregorian Calendar Used In Most Countries Our present calendar the Gregorian Gre-gorian was the first calendar to achieve any semblance of world' unity on the time front. The coming of this calendar, instituted in-stituted by Pope Gregory in 1582 laid the groundwork for universal celebration of New Year's Day. Europe, which for centuries had celebrated March 25 as the first day of the year, was the first to adopt the Gregorian calendar. But it was not a complete adoption until un-til 1752 when Great Britain joined the other European countries recognizing rec-ognizing January 1 as the first day of the year and instituting use of the Gregorian calendar. Of course, the date of January 1 is not celebrated by everyone. The Jews observe a 10-day New Year season at the time of the autumn equinox. The Moslem calendar, cal-endar, which dates to 626 A.D. has-12 months that begin with the approximate new moon without any intercalculation to keep them geared to the seasonal equinoxes. And, the Gregorian, although it performed a great job of unification, unifica-tion, still doesn't satisfy everyone that uses it. Periodicafiy some one comes forth with what they consider con-sider a better way of marking time. . ' |