FROM TODAY'S PRINT EDITIONS:
Happy New Year to all of Rome. This is the first day of the year 2764 under the old Julian Calendar instituted in 45 B.C. by the Roman dictator Julius Caesar. He dated it from the supposed time of the city’s founding 709 years earlier.
Pope Gregory XIII replaced it in 1584 with the modern Gregorian Calendar because it had fallen 10 days behind the seasons.
The Julian reckoning is now 13 days behind. It will lose another day by January 2101.
(PHOTO: Allison Long, Kansas City Star)