When did we start using the modern calender?

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Depends what you call “the modern calender.” The current iteration is the Gregorian Calender, and it basically dates to 1582. It fixed some bugs in the Julian calender, which was in use since Julius Ceasar (40s BCE, if I recall, either way decades before Christ). That, in turn, is based on even older ones.

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