How Britain and America LOST 11 DAYS | Gregorian calendar explained | Julian calendar explained

[@HistoryCalling]

Should we alter the anniversary dates we celebrate famous events on so that they align with the Gregorian calendar now in use, or just keep marking them on the ‘wrong’ day? Let me know what you think in the comments below and remember to check out: BUY MY BOOK (Find Your Irish Ancestors Online): amzn.to/3Z2ChnG Website (with 2 FREE DOWNLOADS): www.historycallingofficial.com/ Patreon: www.patreon.com/historycalling Amazon storefront: www.amazon.com/shop/historycalling Instagram: instagram.com/historycalling/

[@natalieelizabeth6062]

I would say we should not take into account the shift in the calendar and compensate historical dates to match accordingly. I’m of the opinion, that for the most part, we recognize the date as being significant and not the day (i.e. the position of the stars and where the planet was in its orbit lol)

[@BlackCatMargie]

As a genealogist, I did know about the change in 1752, and thought I understood it. Your video has totally thrown my confidence in my understanding right out the window! 😂 Thanks, I think. 😅😜🥴

[@HistoryCalling]

Uh oh. Sorry! I hope I explained it well enough to give you your confidence back. It is annoying that different countries changed calendars at different times.

[@BlackCatMargie]

@@HistoryCalling It's all good. I like having my knowledge challenged. Cheers.

[@kimberleyannedemong5621]

I knew we used the Gregorian calendar instead of the Julian calendar but I never knew why. Thank you for a very interesting & informative video

[@HistoryCalling]

Thanks Kimberley. Yes, it's an interesting story how the world has very slowly made its way from one to the other. I believe last Christmas was the first time Ukraine had actually celebrated it on the Gregorian calendar for instance (though they use the Gregorian already for most things).

[@andypham1636]

I think it was just the Ukranian orthodox church @@HistoryCalling

[@wncjan]

In Denmark the switch to the Gregorian calender happened in 1700. The day after February 18 was March 1. I used to ask my students how many children were born on February 25 1700?

[@HistoryCalling]

I'm sure they loved the trick question :-)

[@wncjan]

@@HistoryCalling The challenge was to find the answer on the internet. And to show them that everything can be googled in one search.😛

[@yvonne3903]

I am in Scotland but always start Hogmanay and New Year with Australia time which gets a wee bit confusing to some of my friends in other countries.

[@heronimousbrapson863]

Lots. Just not in Denmark...

[@AmynAL]

WHEW! That was an interesting video. I had to watch it twice, but alas, I did not mind. Just leave it like it is please. I’m not sure this grandmother can time travel successfully. I just love your videos! I learn so much and go down so many rabbit holes. You are helping me stay young!! Keep up the good work. 🥰

[@HistoryCalling]

Thanks Amy. Yes, I know what you mean about it being confusing. I'm glad I didn't have to live through it. I support just keeping our anniversaries the same too. I can't be bothered learning all the new dates.

[@stephencarrillo5905]

I'm liking this even better on the second viewing, HC. It's great that you take on diverse and wide-ranging subjects. 👏👏I'd say just leave anniversary dates as they are; I already have trouble keeping track.🤔 Have a great week!

[@HistoryCalling]

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE DONATION STEPHEN and I'm glad you're enjoying the video again. Have a great week too :-)

[@mcgrathsw1]

That was wonderfully interesting! I really enjoy when you branch out from your usual fare.

[@HistoryCalling]

Thank you. Me too. The less run of the mill topics don't do as well of course, but they're good for my sanity in many ways. There's only so much royalty a person can take.

[@tonyk1584]

With tongue firmly planted in my cheek, I can relate how one day I was foolish enough to make a disparaging remark about my wife’s cooking. She happily “cleaned my clock” and when I awoke, I found that I too had lost 11 days.

[@HistoryCalling]

Haha! Well, never criticise the chef ;-)

[@annmoore6678]

🤣

[@FandersonUfo]

ty for all the little details as per usual - very fun to watch

[@HistoryCalling]

Glad you like them :-)

[@SurferJoe1]

Sometimes, and this is one of those cases, I listen intently, pause, rewind, listen again; scratch my chin thoughtfully, re-focus, re-engage, and finally end up being thankful and content that somewhere in Ireland, a very bright person with a beautiful, lilting voice understands it all. Stay on that wall for us, HC!

[@HistoryCalling]

AWW, THANK YOU JOE FOR SUCH A KIND DONATION AND LOVELY COMMENT :-) I'm not sure I understand it all, but I'll keep trying :-)

[@gillsinclair6927]

It must have been so confusing for people at that time. As far as the calendar is concerned, leave things be. Thanks for the information and your detailed research

[@HistoryCalling]

Yes, it would have been wild to jump a week and a half like that. I'm sure it affected things like birthdays, anniversaries etc for decades.

[@patpierce4854]

I’ve got a (fairly) recent personal story related to how the Julian vs. Gregorian calendar change almost derailed (or rescheduled) my own wedding! I am an Orthodox Christian. My parish and all those under our bishop, followed what we called the Old Calendar (Julian) for feast days and such. When my fiancé popped the question, we planned for our wedding to happen in August, after what would have been the 14 day fasting period for the Dormition. During fasting periods, weddings aren’t allowed. To my astonishment, in springtime of the year of our wedding, our entire jurisdiction changed over to aligning with the New Calendar, making the 13 day changeover into something that now had my wedding occurring in the forbidden fasting period, which would have thrown all of our 18 months of planning out the window! Thankfully, our bishop granted us an exemption, and our wedding day was able to stay on the same date in the civil (New, or Gregorian) calendar. Knowing how this affected me and my family, the mind boggles what a challenge it must have been for entire nations to make the switch, or to live at a time when next door neighbor countries were using different systems.

[@HistoryCalling]

Oh wow. That's quite a story. I'm so glad to hear you were able to get it sorted and still have your wedding as you planned.

[@david_walker_esq]

I wouldn't alter the anniversary dates or holidays to align with the Gregorian calendar unless we adopted a new 13 month long year, 28 day long month calendar which would also require altering the anniversary dates currently recognised on our current calendar.

[@HistoryCalling]

That's pretty complicated. Let's just keep things as they are :-)

[@cordeliacullen2621]

That's a calendar that did exist! It's the Kodak calendar, after the photography company which was weird and exclusively used a 13 month year.

[@david_walker_esq]

@@cordeliacullen2621 The Anishinabek (Ojibwe, Odawa and Potawatomi) seemed to have had such a calendar as well. The names for the months correspond to activities done during that lunar period. For example: "Iskigamizige-Giizis" means Maple Sap Boiling Moon, which corresponds to April when the maple runs and can be harvested and boiled down into syrup. "Manoominike-Giizis" means Wild Ricing Moon, which corresponds to August when the rice is harvested by canoe. "Gashkadino-Giizis" means freezing moon, which corresponds to November when the winter frost sets in and so on.

[@Nibiru3600X]

My messed up cycle would very much appreciate this calendar 🙏

[@annmoore6678]

Here in Oregon, there is an effort to stop the time changing every six months (springing forward one hour in the Spring and falling back in the Fall). It has not been at all easy to make the change. If we spring forward one last time and remain in Daylight Saving all year, the federal government has to approve it. If we don't go into Daylight Saving one time in the spring and just remain in Standard Time for the rest of history, our legislature can decide it for this one state. But even that is not easy to do. When I worked in Michigan, there were some parts of Indiana that used Daylight Saving Time and others that did not. Deciding whether it was too early or too late to make a telephone call to any given part of Indiana was a problem all summer long for our office. The moral of the story is: we'd best not try to get the whole world to agree on a change!

[@HistoryCalling]

Yikes. That all sounds like a nightmare. I already thought it must be difficult to have a country split into different time zones the way the USA is and you've just confirmed it even further for me.

[@tanyarobinson1146]

​@@HistoryCalling to be fair this US is a very big country. We need time zones to function well. It really isn't confusing. Daylight savings is horrible, I never feel right off 8 months.

[@annmoore6678]

Oregon just failed today to agree on giving up Daylight Saving Time. We’d best not try to get the whole world to agree on switching historic anniversary dates!

[@dennispepperack2973]

@@HistoryCalling Not to mention states like Kentucky, Tennessee (used to live in Nashville) & Florida (now live in Tampa) that have portions in both Eastern & Central time zones. But I mostly remember being confused & bemused as a kid in the 70's near Detroit studying the American Revolution & all the birthdates for the major cast of characters being listed in both N.S. & O.S.

[@theresalaux5655]

This was so interesting. Thank you very much!

[@HistoryCalling]

Thanks Theresa :-)

[@revgurley]

I love to have conversations with my hubby about time, how we measure it, etc. We're really quite lucky living right now, as we've had a way of counting for our entire lifetimes. I have a hard enough time writing the new year for the first two months - can you imagine having to start over every time a new ruler came into power (like ancient Egyptians)?

[@HistoryCalling]

I know. It sounds so awkward. I suppose they were just used to it, but I certainly think our way seems better (I'm biased of course).

[@historylover13]

Absolutely fascinating! Thank you for this excellent explanation of the Georgian/Julian calendars.

[@EriAug78]

Wow my head is spinning lol you did a fantastic job explaining that. I’ve always wanted to look more into that .

[@HistoryCalling]

Thank you very much. I'm really glad it was helpful :-)

[@andypham1636]

Fun fact: Sweden tried but failed to switch to the Gregorian calendar gradually. it was meant to last to 1740, but was abandoned in 1712 after confusion. The plan was to skip leap days to eventually sync with the Gregorian calendar, but the great northern war stopped any further omissions of leap days. In 1712, February 30th was added to return Sweden to the Julian calendar. In 1753, a year after Britain, Sweden finally switched to the Gregorian calendar, going from February 17th to March 1st.

[@elisabethhopson5639]

Mindboggling is how I would describe this. A whole 11 days goes missing from the calendar, no wonder there was so much confusion. Should we change the festivals - nope. Things are bad enough as it is without making Christmas on the 3rd of January. Doesn't have the same ring about it. Easter jumps about anyway. Thanks HC, not sure I got all this, but I can always watch again in 11 days time huh? 😆

[@dutchhistoricalactingcolle5883]

Thanks!

[@HistoryCalling]

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR VERY KIND DONATION. I hope you had a good time (pun intended) watching the video :-)

[@richd6362]

Great video. George Washington was born February 11, 1731 under the old system. He changed his birthday to February 22, 1732 to celebrate the actual day of his birth.

[@HistoryCalling]

Ah, thank you. Someone else mentioned him to me and we wondered how he managed his birthday. I said there must be a source out there that explains if he kept it or switched it and you've just answered my question for me :-)

[@cordeliacullen2621]

The "no year zero" thing is why centuries are weird, also. The 1800s are the 19th century, because 1-100 is the first century instead of 0-99. So 1801-1900 is the 19th century, and so on.

[@HistoryCalling]

I know. It totally messed with people's minds at the time of the millennium (as did the fact that Jesus' birth was miscalculated anyway).

[@heronimousbrapson863]

To make everything logical, not only would there have to have been a year zero, each century would have to have a decade zero, and the first century would have to be renamed century zero as well.

[@sekhmet7440]

Very interesting question proposed to us at the end. I believe in keeping it simple; if something happened on say 15th September, you should remember it each 15th September; keep it a constant. Take things like birthdays, anniversaries or mourning the day you lost a loved one in the years following... We remember a date and celebrate it on that date, whether it happened EXACTLY x years ago or not. It would be far too difficult to keep track of 'real' date changes after leap years etc. Then there's the issue of time; for example British Summer Time was only implemented in 1916; we remember the sinking of the Titanic in 1912 at 2:20am but, in Britain since 1916, it technically occurred at 3:20am BST (as BST is GMT+1) given maritime uses GMT... A lot to be said, but it's mostly symbolic so as long as we personally fulfil what we want to (whether it be remembering people/events, celebrating birthdays etc) the logistics don't massively matter... Let me know what you think!

[@emmarichardson965]

Oh! Deborah Harkness's All Souls Trilogy mentions this! Book 2 takes place in 1591, and the characters discuss England and France having different dates.

[@HistoryCalling]

LOVE those books and the TV show too and season 2 is my favourite. :-)

[@emmarichardson965]

@@HistoryCalling I started watching it for the costumes in season 2!

[@pamsharpe60]

A really interesting video, I enjoyed it very much. Thank you!

[@HistoryCalling]

Thanks Pam :-)

[@vernon2542]

That was very interesting, as I had never heard of this happening. I think that the anniversary days should stay as is. Thank you look forward to next weeks.

[@HistoryCalling]

Thanks Vernon. Yeah, it's not terribly well known (unless you're an 18th century nerd like me of course).

[@elizabethjones5041]

Leave things as they are, life is complicated enough without doing this. Thank you for an interesting video x

[@HistoryCalling]

I agree. I couldn't be bothered relearning all the dates :-)

[@dutchhistoricalactingcolle5883]

Thank you for this!

[@HistoryCalling]

My pleasure. Thanks for watching :-)

[@joklazen]

Verry well done on the pronounciation of Hellevoetsluis! :D

[@HistoryCalling]

Thank you. I had to use an online pronunciation guide (as I do for a lot of words in my various videos), but you still never know if it's quite right.

[@itsjustme7487]

The bank I used to work for still used the Julian calendar for filing purposes but the Gregorian calendar for all other business.

[@HistoryCalling]

That sounds horrendously complicated!

[@itsjustme7487]

@@HistoryCalling Once I got used to it, it was OK.

[@The_DuMont_Network]

What was the purpose of that?

[@itsjustme7487]

@@The_DuMont_Network I was never told, but I think it had to do with the banks Y2K compatable computer operating systems.

[@j0078924la]

What was the purpose 🤔

[@annmoore6678]

Thank. you so much for explaining that history so clearly. I remember having to deal with the question of what date/year it was when I was an undergraduate studying Tudor history and reading correspondence and legal proceedings from the Tudor era (not in original manuscripts, but in modern editions). I didn't really understand why two dates and sometimes two years often appeared. Now I do! I don't think it would be useful or even feasible to try to reposition the dates of events from before the changes (such as the Ides of March 44 B.C.). Too many different cultures and governments would have to buy in, and it seems unlikely we'd get it completely sorted out in any workable time frame.

[@HistoryCalling]

Thanks Ann. Yes, I agree. It would be a nightmare to change everything now and I for one couldn't be bothered learning all the new dates. :-)

[@morriganwitch]

This always fascinates me xxx

[@HistoryCalling]

Yes, it's an interesting story, though not one that gets a lot of attention.

[@morriganwitch]

@@HistoryCalling well done you tho for doing it xxx

[@straingedays]

Thanks, this has made those very early conflicting dates/years on my family tree make a little more sense. But I don't think we should alter dates of famous events to conform with our adjusted calculations of time. If I lived in the past and stubbed my toe on the 5th of June 1750, then that's the date it happened then, when & there, for me.

[@HistoryCalling]

Haha, I agree. It would be too confusing to have to memorise a whole host of new dates now.

[@sjodoin1474]

Thank you for a clearr explanation!!!!

[@HistoryCalling]

You're welcome. It was quite complicated to research, so I'm glad the end result was easy enough to follow.

[@maryloumawson6006]

Good heavens! I had no idea the calendar change caused so much difficulty. I knew about it, but always thought it amounted to much ado about nothing Something like the Y2K controversy we had around the turn of the 21 century. Also, because much of the population were rural, agrarian people, I assumed it went by largely unnoticed by most people since most people were not literate at the time. But I can see where certain countries being reluctant would be bound to cause confusion among tradesmen, landlords, sailors and even farmers when you consider the festivals and harvest times. This was very enlightening HC, thank you! I vote we don't change a thing about our celebrations. Life offers many changes that are hard to avoid, we don't need any more. (When did watching TV become so complicated?) ;-)

[@HistoryCalling]

I know. I'm so glad I didn't have to live through the era of multiple calendars and date changes. Y2K was annoying enough (remember the millennium bug?) Yes, I would keep celebrations as they are now too. Too much hassle to change them and relearn all the dates.

[@beastieber5028]

Good evening to history calling from Bea 🇬🇧

[@HistoryCalling]

Hi Bea. Something a little different from my normal fare this week :-)

[@selinapersaud7629]

Wonderfully detailed video! It would be interesting to see you cover the smaller increments of time and how they were used, or how Europe reacted to them. That would be really confusing though, but it would be interesting. Nice work, Professor!

[@HistoryCalling]

Thanks Selina. Oh gosh, that sounds like it would be even more of a headache than this one was :-)

[@AusNetFan13]

Strange, the actual day lasts for 23 hours 56 minutes 4.1 seconds. Also known as a Sidereal Day. Besides leap days, sometimes we insert leap seconds into the day. The calendar and time are interesting subjects.

[@HistoryCalling]

Yes, I've heard of leap seconds too. It's all pretty complicated.

[@deniseramosgonzalez4799]

Thank you for explaining this so throughly 😊

[@wendym215]

Wow maybe late lately but excellent as ever wow this was interesting thanks @historycalling

[@HistoryCalling]

Ah, but can you really be late to a video about timey wimey stuff? :-) (a little Doctor Who reference there, just in case you don't watch it).

[@wendym215]

@HistoryCalling yes I used to watch Dr Who great reference 😀😃🙂

[@beth7935]

Such an interesting topic, thankyou for the comprehensive explanation! I knew about some of it, but it's so complicated & there were multiple changes.

[@HistoryCalling]

No worries. Glad you found it helpful. :-)

[@DarthDread-oh2ne]

Fun fact: While on his deathbed, Peter II advisors tried to get him to sign A will, naming his fiancé as his heir but he was too sick. If he had done it; the dynasty of Russia would have changed.

[@HistoryCalling]

Ah, but Kings' wills don't always hold anyway. Just look at Henry VIII. His will was chucked aside very quickly when it came to the Protectorate.

[@DarthDread-oh2ne]

@@HistoryCalling True but Peter the great made A law that any tsar could name his or her successor.

[@HistoryCalling]

Ah, but what if another Tsar made a different rule, as Edward VI tried to do when he attempted to change the succession laid down in his father's will? It's all very messy.

[@DarthDread-oh2ne]

@@HistoryCalling Yup, that's one of the reasons why, when, Paul I took the throne; he throw out the old law.

[@andypham1636]

he wasn't married + didn't like her anyway

[@simon112]

I think it's confusing enough haha so. I'd keep things as they are, superb as always HC, it sounds a real nightmare sorting out dates and calendars. 😊👀

[@HistoryCalling]

Thanks Simon. Yes, I agree. I can't be bothered memorising lots of new anniversary dates. I'm just going to continue associating Anne Boleyn's death with 19 May for example.

[@simon112]

@@HistoryCalling Thank you HC totaly agree.

[@AXEL00754]

Thank you for yet another fascinating video. I have also wondered about the origins of the various calendars. Well done again👏

[@HistoryCalling]

Thank you very much. I'm glad you liked it. It's not a very popular topic I'll admit, but I find it interesting and wanted to do a video on it.

[@Megan-bt9pm]

When it comes to celebrating anniversary events, the point is to remember and commemorate the event itself than to make sure it's one the "correct" date. So I don't think it's as big a deal to try to change everything to celebrate on the exact date as that would confuse everyone to celebrate off kilter rather than together as the point would be.

[@HistoryCalling]

Excellent point. Basically, it's the thought that counts :-)

[@MelEveritt]

Do the museums ever get cranky at you for writing History Calling on everything? 😅😅 great video as usual, thanks from outback Queensland, Australia 😊

[@HistoryCalling]

Hehe. No, I've never had complaints. :-) The images from museums are mostly either public domain, or I took them myself and so I own the copyright on the photo. If anything, I think they'd be happy that in the case of their photographs from their website, even when I don't have to, I acknowledge where I get them. Greetings to you too from the UK (where of course I'm living in the 'past' compared to you guys down under, who are about 12 hours in the 'future').

[@nickk6518]

The Julian Calendar continued to be used in the Anglican Parish registers right up until 1752, with some exceptions. For example, in the first Burial Register for All Saints, Kingston on Thames the Latin phrase meaning 'The year ends here' is written after the last burial which took place before December 31st 1549 and burials for 1550 are recorded after January 1st rather than March 25th. I suppose this means that that particular church was either using the original Julian calendar or had already started using the Gregorian calendar. These things are really fascinating!

[@charliekezza]

A 15 minute time zone? Whats the point? Aussie here and we only (not including daylight savings time) only have 3 hourly zones. In Sydney the west coast and New Zealand are both 3 hours off one behind one ahead

[@HistoryCalling]

I agree. It was just too complicated to explain in the video. I looked at a time zone map and thought, 'I am just not getting into that'! :-) As someone who lives in a country with a single time zone, I always think it must be a bit complex to live in a multi time zone country, but I suppose you're just so used to it, you don't think about it.

[@Rocsanna]

Such an interesting topic! As usual, a very well researched and entertaining video! 👏

[@HistoryCalling]

Thanks Rocsanna. I think so too (about how interesting it is) :-)

[@donnicholas7552]

Very interesting, but my brain hurts trying to follow all those changes. lol! 🤣

[@HistoryCalling]

Imagine having to live through it :-)

[@kate_cooper]

Maths isn't my strong point so this was a bit tricky to follow in places. But I'd say leave all anniversaries as they are, changing them wouldn't actually accomplish anything apart from complicating things.

[@HistoryCalling]

Hehe, I know how you feel. I kept worrying I'd counted the wrong number of days as I was putting this together.

[@aldonapolitano5979]

We love your channel. Unless I missed it, I'm disappointed that you glossed over A.D.

[@HistoryCalling]

Thank you. I'm not sure I understand what you mean about glossing over AD though? Do you mean the reasons we say AD vs BC or CE vs BCE?

[@aldonapolitano5979]

@@HistoryCalling No. It's the current, recent trend to obviate the use of AD, Anno Domini or Year of Our Lord and BC, Before Christ.

[@DarthDread-oh2ne]

Hello history calling, did you know:Solomonia Yuryevns Saburova was married to Vasili iii of Russia. After twenty years, it became apparent that Solomon is was barren. Vasili perfectly understood that if if he died childless his brothers would inherit the throne. In order to preclude this scenario, they were incarcerated or forbidden to marry until his own son was born.

[@HistoryCalling]

I didn't, but his brothers were probably lucky he didn't just kill them :-o

[@DarthDread-oh2ne]

@@HistoryCalling Doesn't that remind you of the wars of the roses ?

[@HistoryCalling]

Yup, it sure does, though they were even worse as brothers did kill brothers (and nephews) at that point.

[@nadjakari1752]

Great video! Loved it!!!

[@Treia24]

As to your ending question, I don't think changing the date of observation is necessary, but it would be nice if historical education materials such as text books included more calendrical information. Also though, Japan had some 'fun' calendar shifting too (and kinda still does)! In 1873 they switched from their traditional system of months and the Chinese new year to the Gregorian calendar, to about the same level of confusion as seen in Europe as you've so helpfully described. But they preserved their prior practice of not observing individual birthdays, but counting another year onto *everyone's* age each new year until 1902, and again the general confusion ensued (and continued confusion trying to determine the age of historical figures in modern terms!). And that isn't even getting into the switch from their traditional reckoning of time of day to the western hour and minute model, and the incredible engineering of the mechanical clocks they devised before the switch!

[@debbiecooper1677]

I am in the states. and I hate time change spring foward and fall back.

[@HistoryCalling]

It's always a bit depressing when the sun goes down at 4pm, I'll grant you that, but without it the sun wouldn't come up until something like 9.30am or 10am in the winter and I'd hate that too. Basically, it feels like a no-win situation.

[@reintsh]

They didn't lose or skip days, but dates when switching to another calendar. Just like one does not lose or skip any distance when switching from kilometers to miles during a journey from Paris to Londen.

[@HistoryCalling]

I know, but it's just a bit of lighthearted fun :-)

[@yvonne3903]

This is a fascinating subject,

[@peiginthecity]

I may have misunderstood but I was under the impression that the original great victory commemorated by the Williamite supporters on July 12th OS was that of the arguably decisive Battle of Aughrim, but the Boyne battle fit better the new calendar and was also a big win, so an easy switch.

[@DarthDread-oh2ne]

I almost forgot , I was reading the spider and the fly and it reminded me of Anne and Henry the 8th.

[@HistoryCalling]

Good analogy :-)

[@amandagreen4332]

When reading secondary sources about the 18th century I always wonder if the dates have been adjusted. Not every scholar sees the need to “correct” contemporary sources.

[@HistoryCalling]

Yes, I have the same issue sometimes. It's also confusing to see months written as 8ber or xber, meaning October and December, even though those aren't the 8th and 10th months and haven't been for millennia.

[@andypham1636]

It would typically say NS or OS

[@MichelleBruce-lo4oc]

Hi, awesome live history video I enjoyed it. How are you doing? I'm doing well and so is my cat Benjamin. We have a hoilday called family day in Ontario Canada. It's when families spend time together. The weather is like spring like weather. How is the weather where you are. Have a great day see you next video 😊

[@HistoryCalling]

Hey Michelle. All good here thanks. That sounds like a nice holiday. We don't have anything like that here. Still winter weather in NI I'm afraid.

[@alexlemelin3217]

11:21 anybody got more info on the “so.no.” meaning? means new style but can’t find anything about it anywhere

[@matthewmckever2312]

I didn't know about the new year starting at the end of March, so that was surprising. Strange concept in so many regards, humanity has ALWAYS been obsessed by such an abstract idea, its so ingrained in our reality that it is very often not even considered, like gravity, oxygen and light. When i first thought about it being the 20th century while humans have been around for 300 thousand years, wild. Brilliant stuff.

[@DarthDread-oh2ne]

One more thing; this KZbinr asked us if we could change one thing in history, what would it be; I chose to rescue the two princes in the tower and put one of them on the throne.

[@HistoryCalling]

I've thought about that too, but found it impossible to choose something. If you start pulling on those threads, you could wipe yourself from existence.

[@MichelleBruce-lo4oc]

Hi , awesome live video I enjoyed it. Happy Leap Day to you. How are you doing? I'm doing well and so is my cat Benjamin. We have cold weather today. How is the weather where you are? Have a great day see you next video 😊

[@OkieJammer2736]

A nightmare, indeed! WELL DONE.

[@HistoryCalling]

Thank you. Yes, it was a nightmare to keep track of it all, let alone live through it :-)

[@kimberleyannedemong5621]

No alterations of dates. It would be a nightmare of monumental proportions

[@HistoryCalling]

It would. I couldn't be bothered re-memorising all the dates.

[@Moebian73]

Thank you!

[@andypham1636]

IF you think this was confusing, the Korean age system is more. Fortunately, SK officially abolished it in '22, the legal drinking age lowered from 20 to 19 to adjust

[@economath8164]

[3:08] Four equinoxes?! Where'd the other two come from? And where did the two soltices go? 😂

[@silverjade10]

I feel like this contributes to my hatred of clock time. I'm not sure how, but it supports my feelings that all of timekeeping is sus.

[@HistoryCalling]

Well I suppose with no time keeping, we could all deny the ageing process. That might be kinda fun :-)

[@Taversham]

I would like to know more about this

[@silverjade10]

@@Taversham I have a moderate case of time blindness, so clock time perpetually frustrates me. Ten minutes feels the same as an hour, 2 hours feels identical to 8 hours, etc. I'm okay with 1 to 5 minutes increments, but anything longer than that is a mess to track unless I keep looking at a clock. It's even more irritating because humans are the ones who made it up! It's so arbitrary! Argh. While I know clock time is a necessary evil, I'm not happy about it. One day, quantum physics will prove I'm right about clock time being stupid. I'm sure of it.

[@Taversham]

@@silverjade10 Thank you for sharing that, that must be very frustrating. It's not just you, there's research into the detrimental impact of society moving from "natural" timekeeping to precise clock time (which was essential for the industrial revolution, long distance travel, technological advancements, etc), from the obvious things like how difficult people find it to get up in the dark to commute to work in the mornings for a job that could be done just at well 11-7 rather than 9-5, but also stuff like how children/employees have to eat at a set predetermined "lunchtime" every day regardless of whether they get hungry at 11am or 2pm and that has a negative affect on diet and relationship with food (and consequently maintaining a healthy weight). But I had never considered how it would affect an individual in passage-of-time terms before.

[@katebowers8107]

In the US, one handy fact is George Washington’s birthdate, which is February 22, 1732 [O.S. February 11, 1731]. Because even small schoolchildren have heard of him, he’s an easy example for folks to get their head around.

[@HistoryCalling]

Thanks Kate. Someone else mentioned him too and we were debating if he started celebrating his birthday on a different day and someone said that he did.

[@lfgifu296]

as for ye question, who’s you favourite and least favourite of the Norman Monarchs? Tbf, there’s not many of them, and all are quite bad💀 but my favourite is probably Henry II- he was doubtlessly a bad person, but he got the job done (succession apart💀) and for least favourite- I’m torn between William the Conqueror and Stephen- Stephen’s reign was a lawless time, always at war, and he usurped the throne, but William was a brute, he brutalised England and erased Anglo Saxon culture in great quantity. Ultimately, I can’t choose💀

[@HistoryCalling]

I don't think I know enough about them all at the moment to choose. I rarely look at that period of English history. Sorry :-(

[@lfgifu296]

@@HistoryCalling np :) I’ll try to ask you about some 18th Century British Isles topic next week👹

[@missvidabom]

This is fascinating. It’s all a construct isn’t it? I’ve read that before trains were ubiquitous, you could be in a different time than the city next to you. Once train schedules needed to be standard, this changed. I’ll read more about it and see if I can find some good sources for this statement.

[@joebrouillard565]

If there is an error, cut HC a break, she's a historian for heaven's sake not a mathematician! Thank you for another interesting historical explaination...this was detailed and very complicated.

[@MustAvoidScurvy]

I often think about who decided "tomorrow will be Monday" 😅 Great video, thank you!!

[@HistoryCalling]

Thank you too 😃

[@Claire_T]

That's an excuse for being late to work if ever I've heard one

[@HistoryCalling]

Exactly! :-)

[@MohammedAF2030]

If I may, I have a question: Do you mind if I translate some of your videos into Arabic and re-upload them to my channel? Your videos are well made and very informative, and many would enjoy them, especially non-English speakers.

[@anthonycalbillo9376]

Here in the United States, we have a phrase, "Spring forward, and Fall back." You spring forward an hour in the Spring, but Fall back an hour in the Fall. Talk about Springing Forward!

[@HistoryCalling]

We have that here too. It's the only time I say Fall instead of Autumn and it's a very useful phrase. Thank you America :-)

[@shanenolan5625]

Thanks

[@HistoryCalling]

You're welcome. Thanks for watching :-)

[@andypham1636]

Russia actually changed its calendar twice. In 1700, Russia adopted the Julian calendar from the Russian calendar. way after, in 1918, Russia finally switched to the Gregorian calendar

[@adunreathcooper]

19:50 I was told or read, many years ago, decades ago, that the reason for the riots was because they thought their death was predetermined, and they felt they would die 11 days too early.

[@HistoryCalling]

Ah, I think someone was pulling your leg (or just made a genuine mistake).

[@AnnaAnna-uc2ff]

That was fun.

[@HistoryCalling]

Thanks Anna :-)

[@hollyp3276]

Hello HC 🖐, OMG my head is spinning just listening to this. I can't even imagine how yours must of felt doing the research for this one. The 1 BC/1AD always gets me. Although a Bible scholar that had a doctorate in Theology we watched in the 1980's made it simple. 1BC (Before Christ) 1AD/ACE Anno Domini (in the Year of our Lord) or After Common Era. Seeing there wasn't a 0 zero year. I know confusing. He also stated the guy you mentioned earlier in tge video changeling Christ's birth to December 25th was wrong. He did understand what he was reading. Christ was born 6 months after his cousin John. John according to him was born in March/Spring. 6 months later is September/fall. So Christ was born in early September. December 25th was picked for the pagen Roman God of Sun abd the Winter Solstice. Seeing Christ was the bringer of light his birth should be celebrated on the Pagan Sun God's day. That's what was taught to me by watching this guy. It was interesting and informative at the time and has stuck with me. Quite frankly I wish that we'd stop doing the time Changes, Spring a head 1 hour in March and Fall Back 1 hour in November. It messes with your body clock something awful. At least it does for m Thanks for another great video.

[@HistoryCalling]

Hi Holly. Yes, it is so confusing isn't it? Of course Christmas in Spring would mean no snowmen, so I suppose we've lucked out there and it is nice to have something to look forward to during the cold and dark winter months. :-) On the clock changes and our natural body clocks, I remember reading once that there are more heart attacks worldwide on the days when we lose an hour's sleep and fewer on the days when we get an extra hour, which just shows the importance of sleep to us I think.

[@hollyp3276]

@@HistoryCalling yes, that's so true with the time changes. We have to be extra watchful of our health and body reactions to loosing that hour.

[@lfgifu296]

Interesting!! The change of calendars is quite weird- even the fact that Charles I was executed in 1648 and not 1649 in the eyes of the people then👀

[@DarthDread-oh2ne]

Hi friend. I'm sorry for bothering you but did you look up that man I told you about yesterday ?

[@HistoryCalling]

I know. So many of the anniversaries we think we know are actually 'wrong'.

[@lfgifu296]

@@DarthDread-oh2ne I haven’t yet, sorry :(

[@selinapersaud7629]

I think we should keep the major anniversary where they are, because it would probably cause massive confusion if they changed, and there would be a lot of people against it.

[@HistoryCalling]

I'm right there with you. Think of how many books and websites would be suddenly 'wrong' as well.

[@alisonmiles8984]

Wow! I did not know that. The older I get the less I know, on one hand I feel philosophical about that, on the other cross. And no let's leave dates and events as they are, it's how we've always known them, you know like B.C. and A.D!!!

[@HistoryCalling]

Yes, I couldn't be bothered memorising a bunch of new dates either.

[@chrisbanks6659]

Interesting - would have thought you'd have kept this for the W/E of 31th march / Easter Sunday. Where we all lose another hour!!!!😂

[@HistoryCalling]

You know what, I never even thought of that! You're right though, I should have. Ah well :-)

[@redemptivepete]

Leave the dates as they were ...... i'm feeling too old to relearn history! Can I recommend Kurt Vinnegut's book 'Timequake' in which a global timequake occurs on 13th February 2001 forcing everyone to relive the 1990's? Very funny and thought provoking!

[@HistoryCalling]

Gosh, reliving the 1990s. I mean would I have to go back to being a little kid (but with my adult memories), or would I be reliving them as an adult?

[@1roanstephen]

Calendars are a human construct and such are in error. What matters is celestial events like Equinoxes ans Solstices. As to moving the remembrance of historical dates to their "correct" dates, the actual day does not matter as much as the remembrance. Instead of adding confusion and discord, leave well enough alone. Nobody alive today was present for any of them.

[@Marcus51090]

4:23 lol 😂 same! Don’t examine my maths either. Time is such an interesting thing. We are at the bringing but in the next 100 years there will have to be a new time created STD space standard time…. As if you’re on a mining ship in the belt or something what time are you following? We will all have to agree a standard time all space goers use… because if we don’t we will have all this all over again, ironic how history repeats itself

[@HistoryCalling]

You're making my head hurt :-)

[@dianeaiken3435]

I wasn’t aware of how the Calendar developed, especially around the World.

[@HistoryCalling]

Me neither actually until researching this. It's fascinating though.

[@andypham1636]

I think dates should be retroactively adjusted to reflect the date it'd be nowadays. This is actually called propletic Gregorian calendar

[@urbino79]

So what happened after 25 March 1568? Would it be 25 March 1569?

[@janetlynn3397]

B.C. Before Christ A.D. Anno Domini Latin for "in the year of our Lord"

[@davemaginness]

Here in New Zealand, we like to think that the rest of the world will finally catch up 😉

[@HistoryCalling]

Haha, I dunno. I think you've got a pretty good head start. After all, it's already Tuesday for you and still Monday night here in the UK and Monday afternoon in the US :-)

[@davemaginness]

@@HistoryCalling 13 hours extra naptime for you lot currently. Don't worry though in 6 weeks or so it will be down to 11

[@Jason.cbr1000rr]

You are awesome, love how you get your facts and if it's not 100% certain you pick the right option/theory that fits and makes sense. Very intelligent girl/person. Also your accent still gets me til this day and when you had just 46k subs! You're videos also have gotten better quality wise. Look at you now with 250k+ subs! Thanks ...professor? Doctor? Or you don't have a phd or become a doctor yet? Like Dr Mark Felton! 😅

[@HistoryCalling]

Thanks Jason and thank you for sticking with me, as I think 46k subs was back in about August 2021 :-) Not quite at 250k yet, but hopefully not long now :-) Yes, I have a PhD in history. I was never a Professor though, just a regular lecturer.

[@Jason.cbr1000rr]

@@HistoryCalling hey, no, thank you! Truly. Yes I remember 2021, watching you're vids and falling asleep to some, LOL not saying it's boring but yeah it's that good haha. If I have time one day I'll go back to the old vids from back then to see what comments I added heheh. Thanks, Dr. history calling! 🙂

[@huwgrossmith9555]

When did 00 years become non leap

[@huwgrossmith9555]

2000 wasn't a leap year

[@jasonpalacios1363]

​@@huwgrossmith9555The year 2000 was a leap year because it was the 400 year mark.