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World Service,1 min

How Caesar reformed the Calendar

The Forum

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Julius Caesar is known as a general and politician who transformed the late Roman Republic. Amongst his wide-ranging reforms was the transformation of the calendar. Classicist Matthew Nicholls tells Bridget Kendall how Caesar shaped the way in which we mark the months to this day. Picture: Julius Caesar, Credit: Gerard Julien/Getty Images

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