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A blessed new year to you... Just eight months and three issues before the momentous arrival of the millenium, that is, if you observe the Gregorian Christian calendar of Pope Gregory XIII, instituted in 1582, only eight years before King James VI of Scotland (James I of England) accused Francis Stewart the Earl of Bothwell of leading a coven of Witches against him. In 1593, as Stewart escaped to Italy, Agnes Sampson and other Witches of Stewart's coven were burned at the stake in August 1593. The Gregorian calendar established January 1 as the first day of the new year. In the west the Julian solar calendar, introduced to rectify inaccuracies of earlier lunar calendars, gave the year 365 and a quarter days. Five intercalary days were distributed through the year and a leap year was instituted every fourth year, giving an error of eight days in every one thousand years. Until the earlier revision by Julius Caesar, the Roman calendar, based on a cycle of four years with ten months in one year of 355 days began in May with the quickening of spring. | |
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