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dropped from the calendar, and adopted the present rule for Leap Year. It is said that Gregory's purpose was to keep the Equinox to the same day of the year. 
The Gregorian Calendar was introduced into England and her colonies in 1752 at which time the Equinox had retrograded 11 days since the Council of Nice in A.D. 325, when the rule for Easter Day was established and the Equinox occurred on March 21; hence September 3, 1752, was called September 14, and at the same time the commencement of the legal year was changed from March 25 to January 1, so that the year 1751 lost the months of January and February and the first 24 days of March. The difference between Julian and Gregorian Calendars is 13 days. 
The Mosaic 7-day week of the Hebrews was made legal by Constantine the Great in 321 A.D., when he adopted Christianity. 
The Romans used an 8-day week prior to the Christian Era. The eighth day was Market Day. The 7-day week was legalized by Constantine. The Pagan Sun's Day made the Lord's Day or Christian Sabbath.
The International Fixed Calendar provides a year of 13 months of 4 weeks each, the weeks consisting, as now, of 7 days.
The added month, to be called Sol, is inserted between June and July.
Inasmuch as 13 months of 28 days constitute only 364 days, Eastman suggests an extra day at the close of the year, to be known as Year-Day, dated December 29, as the eighth day in that week.
In Leap Years, in the International Fixed Calendar what is now called February 29, would be Leap-Day, and, as such, would become June 29.