The solar calendar in usethroughout mostof the world, sponsored byPopeGregoryXIIIin 1582 as a correctedversion of the Juliancalendar. See table at calendar.
The so-called Meridian Hall, created to verify the accuracy of the calendar Pope GregoryXIII promulgated in 1582, is in the Vatican Secret Archives, which hold some 10m documents stored by the papacy over the past 1, 200 years.