The Dalai Lama has often called himself a simple monk, but millions of his Tibetan Buddhist followers have worshipped him for ...

The Dalai Lama has announced that he intends to reincarnate, paving the way for a successor to take on a mantle stretching ...

Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama presides over an event celebrating his 90th birthday according to a Tibetan calendar ...

China has reacted to the announcement from the Dalai Lama that he will be reincarnated after his death and a successor will ...

The Gregorian calendar was introduced in 1582 primarily to fix errors in the Julian calendar mostly having to do with leap years. In the Julian calendar , named after Julius Caesar, every fourth ...

From ancient civilisations to modern nations, calendars have long served as tools to track time, organise society, and mark ...

The Gregorian calendar also has a bunch of oddities. Unlike the French Republican calendar, our months are uneven, some 31 days, some 30, plus the monstrosity that is February.

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According to timeanddate.com, in 1700, Sweden leaders had planned to convert from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar. Like the Gregorian calendar, the Julian calendar has 12 months and ...

But the Chinese calendar has a deep, centuries-long shared history with the Gregorian calendar. To learn more about this shared history, Gina talks to scientists and historians, ...

The Gregorian calendar, instituted by Pope Gregory XIII, went into effect in 1582. In the 1,417 years from 1583 through 3000, it’s most common for Easter to fall on April 16, with 61 instances.