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Twelve Emperors by Suetonius

Julius Caesar, Chapter 40: Julius Caesar reforms the Calendar[46 BC]
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Then turning his attention to the reorganisation of the state, he [Note 1] reformed the calendar, which the negligence of the pontiffs had long since so disordered, through their privilege of adding months or days at pleasure, that the harvest festivals did not come in summer nor those of the vintage in the autumn; and he adjusted the year to the sun's course by making it consist of three hundred and sixty-five days, abolishing the intercalary month, and adding one day every fourth year [the year had previously consisted of 355 days, and the deficiency of about eleven days was made up by inserting an intercalary month of twenty-two or twenty-three days after February]. Furthermore, that the correct reckoning of seasons might begin with the next Kalends of January, he inserted two other months between those of November and December; hence the year in which these arrangements were made was one of fifteen months, including the intercalary month, which belonged to that year according to the former custom.

Note 1: he = Julius Caesar

Event: Julius Caesar reforms the calender

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Pontiff / Pontifex:Member of the college of State priests