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A Brief History of the Western Calendar

Time is an abstract notion. It takes a trained and smart mined to measure it and arrange it into a readable calendar. For over one thousand years, we have been working on the calendar as we know it today. Introduction Albert Einstein once said "The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once". For the genius physicist this possibility could actually became feasible but for ancient people things happened at different moments. They noticed the sun going down, the star rising, the sun going up again, the birth of a child, the death of an elderly, the plants growing and cropping, the trees changing from green to yellow and so on. People did not invent the time, they just ordered it, gave it a name and tried to arrange their lives around it. So, they made calendars, time machines and kept records of their most important events, so that now, we would remember them. And we do, as much as we can. The Babylonians and their calendar