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About six and a half million British citizens went to sleep on the night of September 2, 1752 and woke up on September 14th! How did it happen? Today it will be discussed.

More than a century ago, in 1582, the Pope was thirteen Gregory She has been leading the Catholic church for 10 years. In this situation, he was troubled by the date of Easter. At that time, the Julian calendar, which was long before Julius Caesar, was in circulation and it was the most popular in the world. This calendar has a length of 365 days and 6 hours.


This level of the year is fairly accurate, but there is some problem with the rough word. To extract the word, the average length of each year is 365 days 5 hours and 49 minutes. An additional 11 minutes are calculated for two or one year is less value, but after 1,300 years have elapsed since the time the calendar was created, it became a few days. So on February 24, 1582, the Pope issued a degree. He announced that the followers of those churches under him would have to spare several days from the calendar.Some further amendments have been added to make this problem not in the future. Spain, Italy, Netherlands, France, Portugal, Luxembourg, Poland all received this revised calendar from Gregory. The revised calendar is the Gregorian calendar.

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In the next 50 years, Australia, Switzerland, Germany, Hungary and Prussia came together in this calendar shade. As a result, this calendar was introduced in most places in Europe.

But did not happen in Britain. Britain's empire is very big, it does not come here. Oh, it did not feel very relieved to accept a calendar made by Catholics. But British citizens were divided. Many were under the Catholic Church. As a result, the citizens used two different dates for the same day and the noise was boggling. Besides, there are many difficulties in dealing with other countries in the business of business.

Finally, in 1750, the British decided to renovate the calendar through new legislation. The plan was adopted in Britain on the Gregorian calendar and it was decided to remove the date from September 3 to September 13 from the calendar for 11 days to cancel extra days. The month of September is 19 days. For the first time in 19 days, everybody has got salary for 30 days and from this time the payroll starts with the salary. This law came into effect in all colonies under Britain.It was suggested that due to this law, angry response will be created in the mango crowd and will have to go through various discrepancies and complexities. But nothing happened. The citizens simply took new calendars.


Despite the calendar revision in Britain, older calendars have remained in many places in the world. Many state-of-the-art barriers did not break easily. Russia did not accept the Gregorian calendar before 1918. More later in Greece, in 1923. The situation has already worsened. There has been more error in the previous calculation system for more than two days. As a result, these countries had to ignore 13 days instead of 11 days.

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