Show LEAP YEAR when julius caesar that old roman filli buster of whom you may way have heard beard undertook to reform the computation co of time he ordained the year should consist of days except every fourth year which should consist of 66 days the additional day to be reckoned by twice counting the of february which was the sixth caland of march hence the th name from the latin words bis twice and ex tilis sixth the calends whence our word calen caien calendar d ar or first day of the month were reckoned backward to the indes thus the first d day of march was the first caland the of F february e auary was the second caland of march february the third and so on the julian year which by this rule was reckoned at da daya days s and 6 hours houis was found not to be accurate iut tut dut nut to excel exceed the tho length of the solar year by 11 minutes which error would in years amount to an entire day it was therefore correct d by pope gregory Gre gory zory in 1582 1382 who re trenched 11 days davs from the julian computation being bein its excess of gain over solar time out of this correction has grown the tho distinction between old style and new style the gregorian or new style was introduced d into germany in 1770 and ly ty l t y act let of parliament into england 1762 1752 just one hundred years ago the ad day of or september 0 S of that year being reckoned reiko ned as the N S under the Gre gregorian gorlan system although the name bissextile is iad with its obsolete import we intercalate the 2901 of february every fourth year for leap year and for fon still greater accuracy make only one laap year par oyt out cf 0 every four eken even centenary years rears that is the year 1700 and 1800 were not leap years nor will A D be reckoned as one but the year 2000 will vill be bissextile aej and the way leap year came to bp an institution 2 aex lex ex |