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Gregory XIII

Also called: Pope Gregory XIII, Ugo Boncompagni

Pope from 1572 to 1585 who in 1582 promulgated the new calendar that corrected the Julian calendar — the Gregorian calendar

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    1582Introduction of the Gregorian Calendarcreator

    In 1582 Pope Gregory XIII promulgated a new calendar correcting the error of the Julian calendar — the calendar the world uses today.

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  • Scientific Revolution, Enlightenment and the English Revolutions1543 – 1796

    The Scientific Revolution from Copernicus to Newton, parliamentary government in England won through the Puritan and Glorious Revolutions, and the Enlightenment that sought to remake society by reason — the groundwork of the civic revolutions and the Industrial Revolution