For centuries, quite a few European nations used to start their year on the March equinox — nine months before the birth of Jesus. Venice, for example, kept that form of dating up into the eighteenth century. You can still see it written sometimes — modo venexiano “in the Venetian way”
For centuries, quite a few European nations used to start their year on the March equinox — nine months before the birth of Jesus. Venice, for example, kept that form of dating up into the eighteenth century. You can still see it written sometimes — modo venexiano “in the Venetian way”