1683

High school (ages 12+)
History & Culture

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Step 1 · Read the article

Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

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Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. What is the year designation?1683 was classified as a common year, containing 365 days
2. What is the millennial context?It represented the 683rd year of the 2nd millennium CE
3. What was special about the year 1683?In 1683, two different calendars were used at the same time, making dates ten days apart.
4. Why were the Gregorian and Julian calendars different in 1683?The Gregorian calendar was created to fix a drift in the Julian calendar, and by 1683 the drift had grown to ten days.

Gregorian Calendar Reform: The 1582 papal bull that adjusted the Julian calendar for greater astronomical accuracy.
Solar Year: The time it takes for the Earth to complete one orbit around the Sun, approximately 365.24 days.
Chronological Divergence: The difference in dates between two or more systems of measuring time.