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The Julian Reforms
Julius Caesar found that the Roman calendar had slipped out of sync with the year by nearly a hundred days. The Egyptian measurement of the year at 365 and a quarter-ish days was not quite right, says Robert Paul. In 45 BC there was a great year of confusion, which consisted of 445 days,. And then Caesar got his astronomer, so Sijones, the Greek, to come up with a new calculation of the year. That kept the calendar more or less on track for many centuries to come.