✦ Time paradoxes · Still around
Gregorian calendar: 1582; Ivan the Terrible: 1530–1584 — that is 2 years later.
When the Gregorian calendar was introduced, Ivan the Terrible was still alive.
Who and what
- Gregorian calendar1582 · Rome. Ten days vanish from the calendar most of the world now uses
- Ivan the Terrible1530–1584 · first Tsar of Russia
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