The Longest Year in Human History (46 B.C.E.)

Historia Civilis · 7.4M views · 2019-04-24 · 27:13

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Historia Civilis tells the story of 46 BCE, the 445-day year in which Julius Caesar reformed the Roman calendar. It covers the political context, including the civil war, Cato and Cicero.

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Recommended as an entertaining and well-explained account of why our calendar looks the way it does.

Recommended by 4 HN people across 3 months · HN mentions 2021–2024

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hr0m · 2024-02 · Recommendation
Ha, a proof that by watching YouTube videos you learn something. This was covered by one of my favorite series on YouTube. Here is the particular video: [VIDEO]
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j-bos · 2024-02 · Recommendation
Historia Civilis has a great video explaining how Caeser used the longest year to his advantage in war: [VIDEO]
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comeonbro · 2022-09 · Recommendation
I didn't appreciate until recently that the calendar we live by today was personally designed by Julius Caesar. Like not by some forgotten technocrats incidentally during his time, but Julius Caesar himself as a subject matter expert, as a side-project. With consultation, certainly, but by his initiative, from long-standing engagement with the problem in one of his early jobs from long before he was a main character of the Roman story. Digestable and entertaining (fragment of a) video on the topic: [VIDEO]
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