Hermione Wrote:
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> I'm not sure that there's any evidence that Julius Caesar or Cleopatra saw the world in quite this fashion.

Me neither, but I just wrote it to show that good reasons exists why Caesar created this new calendar and defined the start of the year at the point where we have it still today (with the small correction called Gregorian Calendar adding that 100 / 400 year leap year rule). Before that calendar, the Romans only had that fuzzy 10-month calendar of 304 days starting with March, where the new moons or full moons defined the months' beginning.

I read, that it is assumed he started the calendar in public 45 BCE (by executive order). That's interesting as 45 BCE is also the assumed year the construction for the current shape of the Hathor Temple was started. But the temple foundation most likely existed already centuries ago already.