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| | Peter Mathews - Who's Who in the Classic Maya World |
 | | In 45 BC this advisor, Sosigenes, suggested a correction to the previous Roman calendar, by adding one extra day every four years (this involved the year 46 BC-the "Year of Confusion"-having 445 days!). |
 | | In other words, 13.0.0.0.0 4 Ajaw 8 Kumk'u, 8 September, 3114 BC (Julian) and 13 August, 3114 BC (Gregorian), is 584,285 days into the Julian era, JD 1 having been 1 January, 4713 BC, over half a million days earlier. |
 | | Concerning the Maya calendar, this means that the beginning of the current Maya era, 3114 BC, equals -3113 in astronomers' years. |
| research.famsi.org /whos_who/christian_dates.htm (890 words) |
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