Gregorian calendar

基本解釋

The Gregorian calendar was not widely adopted across the world until much later.
格裡高利歷法（公歷）直到很久以後都未被世界採(cǎi)用。
With the reform of the calendar under Charles IX, the Gregorian Calendar was introduced, and New Year's Day was moved to January 1.
後來(lái)隨著查理九世對(duì)日歷的改革，格裡高裡歷被引進(jìn)，新年也隨之移到了1月1日。
ORIGIN: the exact origin of April Fool's Day isn't known, but many think it began in France around 1582 with the introduction of the Gregorian Calendar, which is the most widely used calendar today.
起源：四月愚人節(jié)的確切起源已不可考，不過(guò)很多人認(rèn)爲(wèi)這個(gè)節(jié)日是起源於1582年前後的法國(guó)，在公歷被引進(jìn)之後——公歷就是我們到今天還在使用的歷法。

We controlled for other well-known fixed calendar (we call them Gregorian anomalies), notably,day of the week effect, like Monday,January effect, Halloween effect, and none of those factors explained results.

The Gregorian calendar is used today in the large majority of countries.
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the revision of the Julian calendar introduced in 1582 by Pope Gregory XIII and still in force, whereby the ordinary year is made to consist of 365 days and a leap year occurs in every year whose number is divisible by four, except those centenary years, such as 1900, whose numbers are not divisible by 400