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1582 was a common year starting on Monday in the Julian calendar, and a common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the Proleptic Gregorian calendar. This year saw the beginning of the Gregorian calendar switch , when the papal bull Inter gravissimas introduced the Gregorian calendar, adopted by Spain, Portugal, the ...
It marks the beginning of year 1582 if that year began on 25 December, the traditional date of the birth or nativity of Jesus. "Indictione decima" (Indiction 10) is the year beginning 1 January, which agrees with modern reckoning. All of these years agree that the bull was dated 24 February 1582, using the modern 1 January beginning of the year.
The year 1582 in science and technology included a number of events, some of which are listed here. This year sees the introduction of the Gregorian calendar , promulgated by Pope Gregory XIII in the Papal bull Inter gravissimas on February 24 and based largely on the work of Christopher Clavius .
The months and days are those of the Gregorian calendar, but the year is either the "Western calendar" (西暦, seireki) year number per the Common Era or Anno Domini system, or a year of the nengō of the emperor on the throne. Since 1873, an era and the first year of that era has begun on the day of the year that the emperor ascended the throne.
To reduce misunderstandings about the date, it was normal even in semi-official documents such as parish registers to place a statutory new-year heading after 24 March (for example "1661") and another heading from the end of the following December, 1661/62, a form of dual dating to indicate that in the following twelve weeks or so, the year was ...
Winter solstice is the shortest day of year, longest night of the year and the official first day of winter in the Northern Hemisphere. Find out about the science and traditions behind the solstice.
De Brevitate Vitae (English: On the Shortness of Life) is a moral essay written by Seneca the Younger, a Roman Stoic philosopher, sometime around the year 49 AD, to his father-in-law Paulinus. The philosopher brings up many Stoic principles on the nature of time , namely that people waste much of it in meaningless pursuits.
The days get longer after the winter solstice but sunrises keep getting later into mid-January.