After the PR disaster of handling of Copernicus and Galileo Galleili's assertion of the law of nature, the Vatican wised up. The new Pope invested their new earned contributions from the masses into books, library and scientific research. One of the new investment was a sundial monument to observe the movement of the sun. Commission for the Reform of the Calendar (Pope Gregory XIII Presiding), Biccherna Tablet, 1582 New discoveries showed that the Church and the rest of the civilized world have been getting it all wrong. The radical minded Pope decreed that, to synchronize the season and to give leeway for the errors of the counting of the calender all this while, modern world should fast forward the year by more than 10 days. He set the New Year should start on 1st January every year from that year onwards. News spread like wildfire across the European continent. Their transatlantic cousins who never really fancied the Vatican control (and in absence of global news...
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