English scholar who wrote a history of the early centuries of Anglo-Saxon England and an encyclopedia which consisted largely of excerpts from Pliny the Elder. He noted that the equinox had slipped three days earlier than the traditional March 21, but the calendar remained the same until the institution of the Gregorian calendar in 1582 by Christoph Clavius. Bede was the first to date events from the birth of Christ.

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