octavian added a day to his august, taking it away from the last month of the roman year, february.ope gregory 13 found out that the julian calendar was still behind the sun by 11 minutes and 14. russia in 1918, according to it, leap years are those that are divisible by four. on february 29, 1692 , the persecution of witches began, which went down in history as the salem witch hunt. in in the village of salim in new england, today it is the north american state of massachusetts, there lived settlers who today would be called... fanatics, they explained many troubles by the machinations of the devil and witchcraft. one day, in one family , their teenage daughters fell ill with an unknown disease, they had a fever, hallucinations, they complained that someone was stabbing them... and with a knife, the doctor could not cure them, he said that the girls had been hexed, that day the first ones were arrested witchcraft suspects, sarah gut and sarah osborne. then about 200 more were thrown into prison people, men, women and even children, were interrogated with prejudice, almost all admit