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Question 12

Which calendar reform is credited to Caesar's dictatorship?

  1. A lunar calendar of twelve fixed 28-day months
  2. Replacement of the consular year with a fixed Olympiad cycle
  3. Abolition of any method for correcting the calendar's drift
  4. The Julian calendar, a solar calendar of 365.25 daysCorrect answer

Explanation

Caesar introduced the Julian calendar in 45 BCE, a solar calendar with a leap day every four years that corrected the drift of the old Roman lunar system. He did not introduce a 28-day lunar calendar, adopt the Greek Olympiad cycle for dating, or remove all mechanisms for correcting calendar drift.

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