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SCALIGER SETS JULIAN ERA EPOCH: 1583
The French classical scholar Joseph Justus
Scaliger proposed in 1583 that the epoch of the
Julian era be fixed at January 1, 4713 bc, at noon.
The beginnings of the cycles used in antiquity
coincided at that time, and the date was sufficiently
remote to furnish a reference point to which all
other chronological systems might be compared. The
Julian cycle contains 7980 years of 3656 days, but
computation is seldom by years, and the days are
numbered consecutively.