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Show New Year, !52 B.C. Celebration of New Tear's Day on January 1 began in Rome in 452 B. C. and therefore, there-fore, contrary to logical reasoning, reason-ing, had nothing whatsoever to do with the birth of Christ. The Julian calendar, effective by decree of Caesar in 4G B. C, was adjusted to the Christian era in 516 A. D. by Dionysius who meant to begin the era from the year of Christ's birth. However, an error in chronology chronol-ogy figured the event four years later than it actually occurred. Therefore, the latter half of the 20th century should have begun four years before 19D0, and 1950 should have been 1954, really! |