For Britons the end of the tax year looms on April 5th. Why such a seemingly random date?

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(Here’s why some people celebrate Christmas in January.) Pope Gregory XIII found the situation untenable, so his Gregorian calendar was unveiled in 1582—after another drastic adoption of time ...