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The seven-day week was adopted in early Christianity from the Hebrew calendar, and gradually replaced the Roman internundinum. [citation needed] Sunday remained the first day of the week, being considered the day of the sun god Sol Invictus and the Lord's Day, while the Jewish Sabbath remained the seventh.
A full calendar system has a different calendar date for every day. [20] [21] Thus the week cycle is by itself not a full calendar system; [22] neither is a system to name the days within a year without a system for identifying the years. The simplest calendar system just counts time periods from a reference date. [23]
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A 2007 wall calendar with moveable date marker. A calendar is used to display dates and related information, usually in a table format. Calendars are used to plan future events and keep track of appointments, and so a typical calendar will include days of the week, week numbering, months, public holidays and clock changes. [1]
An eight-day week was used in Ancient Rome and possibly in the pre-Christian Celtic calendar. Traces of a nine-day week are found in Baltic languages and in Welsh. The ancient Chinese calendar had a ten-day week, as did the ancient Egyptian calendar (and, incidentally, the French Republican Calendar, dividing its 30-day months into thirds).
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Medieval calendar with the so-called Sceptre of Gediminas, 14th century A Lithuanian language calendar by Laurynas Ivinskis. Lithuanian researcher Libertas Klimka [] proposed that there was a simple astronomical observatory on the Birutė Hill in Palanga before the Christianization of Lithuania.
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