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| | Ancient Roman Calendars - Crystalinks |
 | | The Roman calendar changed its form several times in the time between the foundation of Rome and the fall of the Roman Empire. |
 | | Most modern historians tacitly assume that it began on the day the consuls took office, and ancient documents such as the Fasti Capitolini which use other AUC systems do so in the same way. |
 | | The chronologist Joseph Scaliger established in 1583 that the Augustan reform was instituted in 8 BC, and inferred that the sequence of leap years was 42, 39, 36, 33, 30, 27, 24, 21, 18, 15, 12, 9 BC, AD 8, 12 etc. |
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