Oh, The Possibilities! - Trivia

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 128401

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Geoff Bannister" 
<gbannister10 at a...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Steve" <bboyminn at y...> wrote:
> > --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Geoff Bannister"
> > <gbannister10 at a...> wrote:
>  
> bboyminn:
> 
> > I've been looking for an opportunity to drop this little fact. On a
> > recent Astronomy program it was pointed out that up until approx 
1752
> > the new year started in March.
> 
> Geoff:
> I think that was the year, when we switched from the Julian to the 
> Gregorian calendar and a number of days (was it 17?) were dropped out 
> of the year to catch up and there were riots and demonstrations 
because 
> poorer folk actually believed that they had lost that number of days 
> from their lives.

Geoff:
Answering my own question, I just attacked Google and found that, for 
the UK and the American colonies, it was 1752 and it was 11 days, the 
date jumping from 2nd September 1752 to 14th September.

The reference I followed was:
http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/astronomy/GregorianCalendar.html