The Calendar Act of 1750 and eleven lost days

[@TheHistoryGuyChannel]

Several viewers have noted that Aberdeenshire is in Scotland rather than England.

[@GenuineEarlGrey]

Indeed. I hope your experience has not been too unpleasant. You can use UK (or even the British Isles) to play it safe. Mis-labelling the non-English UK countries is a touchy subject, not quite as bad as it was in the 20th century. A hypothetical example: When UK athlete wins an Olympic games gold he is either British. The athlete then tests positive for drugs and is now Scottish.

[@TheIamIrving]

I'm surprised there hasn't been riots in the streets over this insult! Ye Sassenach!

[@TheIamIrving]

A good video to do would be how they changed the time to suit the railways.

[@GenuineEarlGrey]

kaptain kopter railway time was set to one clock in London, possibly Paddington Station. When a train stopped at a station, the conductor and the station master would synchronise their watches.

[@TheIamIrving]

Magnus McGee - Yes and before GMT/Railway Time became 'legal' time, every town had 'local time'. The further west you went, the earlier it was. For example, Bristol might have been an hour behind London (I don't know the exact figures). Difficult to figure out rail timetables!

[@cpuwrite]

In computers, there is an operating system called "Unix" that has a utility program called "cal" to print out calendars. If you ask "cal" to print out September of 1752, it actually omits the missing days.

[@DDlambchop43]

that's cool! I run Linux on my laptop; does that still work?

[@richardmourdock2719]

H.G... sir, you can put more in eight minutes than anyone I've ever heard.. and do it exquisitely.

[@JerryWick]

Richard Mourdock this is why history guy is awesome. Most popular KZbin channels fit half the amount of information in twice the amount of time

[@charlesfoster575]

Excellent channel. If Rchard is your name (that is better than HG), thank you. One thing that I am only now beginning to notice as a slow but voracious learner, is that for all the mysteries found in the Holy Bible, there are aspects that show an acute focus on precision that destroys any semblance of randomness to anyone who is willing to pay attention. Time, the relationship of how we record time, how we chart geography with degrees on a compass and the fulfillment of prophecy are just the beginning of these characteristics, that are unique and traceable with a bit of knowledge of the ancient prophetic records found in Holy Scripture and even the heavenly language and writing that was used to transmit the Covenant to Moses. This is a map, of sorts. Indeed, a study of the paleo Hebrew letter meanings, which each give depth of understanding to the word they form, is one of the unmistakably supernatural remnants of heavenly knowledge and perfection that is clearly visible to the unspiritual mind imprisoned in darkness (simple spiritual ignorance). For a reference to this from Yeshua HaMashiach, the Son of YHWH, the Most High (Proverbs30:4), see one of His quotes in John 3:16-22. Also, the word "shalom" is spelled: shin - destroys lamed - (the) power/authority vav - attached to mem - chaos/sin Have some fun with this! Another hint: read the meanings of the names of the Patriarchs in succession starting with Adam. (!) What silliness you have deftly pointed out which precipitates from the self-oriented children who God establishes as our leaders when we ourselves are childish as a nation. In that sense alone, every one of the 70 nations and languages God established after Babel fell truly has a representative form of government. (!) I LOVE TRUTH...the only preventative of 2Thes2:9-11 delusion. Thus, because I have come to know my Creator's ways to a degree, I AM very interested to see how the recording of time which was given in the Genesis creation account allows for extra days that the Moedim, Shmita and Jubilee rectify... perfectly, I expect. Keep searching it out untill if fits perfectly, in fact. That is how we "check our math" when studying the things of YHWH, who alone is perfect in all His ways. Shalom bshem Yeshua HaMashiach tsidkenu † Jer23:6

[@francesrude3007]

@@JerryWick yES, AND 2/3 OF those PEOPLE GET IT WRONG. LOL. History Guy, gets it right 99.999 percent.

[@DWilliam1]

You’ve never been on “Only Fans”…;)

[@ernestbywater411]

Many years ago I read somewhere that a planned major battle against Napoleon failed because the Generals from the different countries agreed to meet at a certain location on a set date to fight Napoleon, but they used different calendars. Thus they arrived there over a week apart, and that gave Napoleon the opportunity to defeat the two major armies fielded against him as individual armies instead of one big army that would've beaten him. Thus getting the timing right is important.

[@Rusty_Gold85]

Yes the Russians, Austrians and Prussians did that in 1809

[@REM1956]

Great episode, as usual. Clarity and brevity are lost arts these days. You provide both, and for that I thank you.

[@MrVerno46]

Thank goodness for the pause bottom, your speed exceeds mental note taking! Still, your energy and wit are extremely satisfying. I continue to tune in and enjoy.

[@jeremygilbert7190]

A great explanation of the Julian and Gregorian calendars, Mr. History Guy! I know I'm late to this discussion, but here's my piece of trivia. You alluded to but didn't spell out the reason for the shifting dates of Easter - the church calculates, via the computus, the date of Easter by in part using the vernal equinox - but the vernal equinox isn't the actual astronomical event, which currently can fall on March 19, 20 or 21, but instead a fixed date, as you mentioned. That fixed date - March 21st - had drifted by 11 days or so from the actual vernal equinox by 1582, hence the need for the calendar reform, also as you mentioned. So now the nominal equinox date - March 21st - often falls on the actual date of the equinox. But here is the trivia - this is why Orthodox Easter often occurs after Easter as celebrated by most of the Christian world - they still do the computus but with the old Julian calendar. So March 21st according to the Julian calendar is the nominal vernal equinox even though on the calendar the rest of the world uses "March 21" is actually April 3rd. So, sometimes the orthodox Easter is 4 or 5 weeks later. When the first full moon falls after the Equinox (actually, March 21st) later than April 3rd via the Gregorian calendar, then the computus usually gives the same date of Easter for all Christians. (though the "full moon" is a nominal one, determined via tables.) The next three times Easter will be on the same date are 2025, 2028 and 2031.

[@mellissadalby1402]

The History Guy never fails to astound me in awe of the wondrous "forgotten" historical tales, of which I had never heard. I am grateful for his efforts on the behalf of those of us who are not as astute as he in historical matters.

[@shelbybrown8312]

I work overnights at gas station And you sir Are a life saver

[@MurdockSpain]

Thanks again for a great video. On an interesting sidenote, there is a riddle in Spain which asks how it was possible for Teresa of Avila to die on October 4 and be buried the next day on October 15. The answer is that the year was 1582 and her death coincided exactly with the switch to the Gregorian calendar. What would have been October 5, became October 15.

[@Rusty_Gold85]

that is a good one to be used in Fundraising Trivia Nights

[@johnferguson7235]

I had a friend born on February 29th. He had his fifth birthday party in college.

[@berrytharp1334]

I was born on leap day. 29Feb68 I will celebrate my 13th birthday in 2020.

[@LePrince1890]

A plot trick in the operetta, "The Pirates of Penzance" was that Frederick was apprenticed to the pirates until his 21st birthday. He is going to assist the police in destroying the pirates, until the Pirate King reveals Frederick was born on February 29th. He's only five!. In 1940 (Pirates of Penzance was first produced in 1880) Gilbert and Sullivan fans finally celebrated Frederick's reaching age 21.

[@Fater4511]

to have 21 Feb 29ths you would have to go to 1964 after 1880.

[@bxdanny]

@Raymond Fate Actually, you'd have to go to 1968, since there was no Feb. 29th in the year 1900. But Gilbert and Sullivan apparently didn't realize that either, I think they said somewhere that it was 1964.

[@WildBluntHickok]

You're forgetting that he was 5 in 1880 not 1.

[@lachlanclyne3548]

This episode simply made me smile, so thank you. Wonderful to watch and ever so interesting.

[@TerryClarkAccordioncrazy]

Pure brilliance, particularly where you debunk the popular myth that there were riots about the lost days.

[@azothjohnes]

There was considerable public unrest for one simple reason: that landlords still expected payments of their full-month's rent, when workers had lost eleven (or ten) days of earned wages !

[@jjames3793]

@@azothjohnes ah i could see how that could make people not only bitter but also sort of freaked out if they cant make there rent or else

[@rsr789]

If you visit the Th. Jefferson grave in Monticello, the dates because of the calendar shift are given as: Born: April 2, 1745. O.S. Died: July 4, 1826.

[@MarkStevens-fh3wb]

A novel that ties-in with the Doctor Who TV series took advantage of this "gap in time" Doctor Who as you might know is about time travel, and a group of radical time travelers actually had a headquarters that shouldn't exist, because if you set a time machine for say September 6th 1752 in England, you would land in the middle of their "Eleven Day Empire".

[@paladin252]

I enjoy all of these videos, but this one might be one of the most interesting pieces of knowledge I have gathered from you yet.

[@jsturm41808]

So many fascinating twists and turns and ironies just to try and settle on “when” we are! Your storytelling enthusiasm is riveting!

[@jimthorne304]

Great presentation! One party that did get his 'lost' 11 days back was the Lord Mayor of London whose dates of office were extended by 11 days during the period of the changeover. If I may suggest it, a presentation on the calculation of the dates of Easter would be similarly interesting. In fact the 'incorrect' dates for Easter was the main reason for Pope Gregory's reform.

[@aorton7829]

Your channel is awesome.

[@terpag11]

I lost a few days in college. King Jack Daniels the 7th issued the pronouncement.

[@mikeyh0]

My pronouncement came from Chivas Regal the Fifth.

[@tygrkhat4087]

The Vodka diet: I lost three days last week!

[@jonathanscott7372]

I dont know whether it has already been mentioned, but a by-product of this calendar change is that in the UK the financial year still runs from April 5th, 11 days after the old new years day March 25th.

[@jdb47games]

To be clear, it ends on April the 5th, and starts on April the 6th.

[@mikehowk4086]

Nice well rounded bit of calendar history here!

[@longlakeshore]

Astronomers use the Julian Date (JD) to avoid the imprecision of different calendars and calendar reforms over time. The JD is simply the number of days since January 1, 4713 BC on the Julian calendar projected into the past from its inception in 45 BC. As I write this it is JD 2,458,301. It is especially useful to calculate the frequency of occurrence or the periodicity of astronomical phenomena over long periods of time. For finer precision within a day the JD is calculated to several decimal places. Each Julian day begins at noon Greenwich Mean Time. It was created by French classical historian Joseph Scaliger in 1583 to pin down historical dates because of the Gregorian calendar reform being adopted at the time. Using an on-line Julian Date Converter I see I was born 20,635 days ago.

[@davidgreen5099]

longlakeshore there's a Moody Blues song called 22,000 days.

[@WildBluntHickok]

@@davidgreen5099 There's also a Tool song called 10,000 days about Jesus's life. On a person's ten thousandth day of life they're somewhere in their 27th year, the age Jesus supposedly was when he died. The song is about what a struggle life on earth was for him, and features the line "ten thousand days in the fire is long enough, you're coming home".

[@stephenhoughton632]

For anyone wondering why March 25 was new years day it is because it was the Feast of the Annunciation to the Virgin Mary, which celebrated the conception of Christ as described in the first chapter of the book of Luke. The idea was the the first year of our Lord began then, not 9 months later on Dec 25.

[@searchlight18]

Thanks for the info.

[@stephenhoughton632]

You are welcome!

[@cascorick8253]

Stephen Houghton keep your bible-thumping to yourself! There's other programs you can do that on!

[@libertyresearch-iu4fy]

It is also commonly called Lady Day.

[@brianmatthews4323]

@@cascorick8253 If you keep quiet your ignorance won't show.

[@SgtJoeSmith]

You make history interesting. I want to learn more now. Schools should just play your videos for class.

[@awaitingthetrumpetcall4529]

This is significant information. I just created a single video playlist so I can watch again...and again.

[@vtwinwild1]

I love your channel and watch it a lot. Another note on calendars, even today in different parts of the world they are using different calendars, but the "western" calendar is the recognized universal calendar for international business.

[@poncho6784]

OMG. One of the best - and most complex - videos by THG! I’m gonna have to watch it a few more times for a few more facts to both sink in and entertain.

[@heidiedelman6840]

I found this very interesting and hilarious all at the same time. Thanks for the videos, they are so full of interesting information.

[@flamencoprof]

In my country (NZ) the tax year still ends at the end of March. An old carry-over from one of those old English calendar shifts.

[@normanboyes4983]

Excellent - a well crafted piece.

[@Mildeda]

Thank-you for sharing this piece of history!

[@michaeldougfir9807]

One of my favorite little tricks is to go someplace public on February 29th. The WalMart in our little town is quite the social gathering place for example. I will be chatting with someone and ask them where they were "a year ago on that day." (Not mentioning the date to them.) Most will say they don't know. A few will tell what they were doing on the 28th or March first. Very few focus on it being Leap Day. Anyway the fun is in telling them that there was no "year ago today!" That usually gets a thoughtful look then a laugh. And we do have a neighbor who is a Leap Baby.

[@stevejarrettnc]

My new favorite binge producer. Thank you, sir.

[@annpino5005]

In the older cemeteries of New England, one sometimes comes across tombstones with both Julian and Gregorian dates on them. Whether they rioted or not, some who lived through this time keenly felt the "loss" of those eleven days.

[@rwboa22]

Best example would be George Washington himself, who was officially born on February 11, 1731 (O.S.), but due to the calendar reform, became February 22, 1732 (N.S.).

[@jimdecamp7204]

Alaska had two Fridays in a row. For residents of Alaska, Friday, October 6, 1867 was followed by Friday, October 18, 1867; two Fridays in a row.

[@ChurchOfTheHolyMho]

I was about to write this.... Great story.. Go to bed on Friday Oct 6, 1867 as a Russian... ..wake up the next morning on Friday Oct 18, 1867 as an American. (I actually have no idea how citizenship transferred with the sale of the land, so a bit of a guess on that part.)

[@wanderingangelstudio1359]

My favorite video so far. Love this channel!

[@johankotze42]

A little while back I mentioned the "strange" shenanigans around calendars, at work. I was almost gob smacked by my one colleague who could not grasp the fact that people had not been using the current (gregorian) calendar forever. His one remark was "How did they know when to plant?"

[@almostfm]

There's a different "Julian day" that's used in astronomy-it's the number of days since January 1, 4713 BC, and a "modified Julian date" which starts from November 17, 1858. It was introduced in 1957 to track orbital data from Sputnik on the computers of the day, but it's still used in astronomy.

[@rwboa22]

What is even stranger is that before the Julian Day (which the Stardate from "Star Trek" is based off of) became the norm, older astronomy records used the local noon as the start of the date (namely with observations of Mars in the late 19th/early 20th Centuries).

[@noelpucarua2843]

"Aberdeenshire in England" That may have been true on September 5th 1752.

[@lowellmccormick6991]

The History Guy missed the most important calendar date. When is Mardi Gras? I asked that question when I was an 8 year old altar boy. I found the answer in an almanac that told me that Easter is celebrated on the first Sunday following the full Moon that occurs on or just after the spring equinox. Then I counted backwards to Ash Wednesday & Fat Tuesday (traditionally called Boeuf Gras).

[@johnleslie7788]

Now that was a fascinating piece of history I didn't know. Thank you THG

[@lesahenderson7365]

Thank you! This was entertaining and good to know.

[@ClarenceBJacobs]

A great review of calendar changes. Look the info

[@deborahmccoy3837]

Very interesting piece of forgotten history on this one. Very interesting history guy. I really enjoyed this piece on the subject. Thx.

[@jimf2525]

I like that you slow down the speed you talk since then.

[@silascochran9705]

Your passion of History shows on your face. And that little grin you get love your stuff. Keep it coming. I consume this like potato chips. I go back and watch them later. Cuz I can't remember everything.❤📜

[@Pb-ij4ip]

Apparently I’ve watched this before. I started watching and shortly after noticed it was already “thumbed up”. I’m not sure why YT didn’t acknowledge my having already watched this (and I gladly watched it again) but I can’t help but think: “I’ve been watching THG for over a year!” Time flies when you’re having fun!

[@shamoy1000]

So if I miss my wife's birthday I have some wiggle room for amends.

[@melodyrichter2450]

chas sisom sure you do. Lol

[@briansmith9439]

Actually, it was Henry VIII who failed to produce a male heir as it is the male who transmits either an X or Y chromosome. There was no 5 October 1582 in Spain, Portugal, France, Poland, Italy, Catholic Low Countries, and Luxemburg, but England had one. Always wondered why England lagged so far behind everyone else and assumed it had something to do with the Welsh Tudors. It is surprising to see the number of times historical texts have computed the date correction incorrectly or, perhaps more commonly, assumed the 2-century lag of England was Europe wide. Of late I have been researching records of early Rhode Island and was amused to find the colonists were using the Gregorian calendar in some places as early as the 1640s.

[@RealLifeWorthLiving]

That's why George Washington was born on February 11, 1731, but was changed to February 22, 1732. We used to use the Julian calendar when I was in Vietnam as countdown (short timers) calendars, marking when it was to to go home.

[@Keldor314]

Another interesting fact is that the astrological zodiac is off by just under a month, lagging behind by nearly one full constellation from the actual position of the sun relative to the stars. The reason for this is that the the axis of rotation of the earth precesses, rotating around the axis of rotation of the Earth's orbit around the Sun. This process takes around 26,000 years, so in the nearly 3000 years since the official dates of the Zodiac were written, it's drifted by about 25 days. Perhaps this is the reason your horoscope is incorrect more times than not! XD Over the course of the next 13,000 years, the positions of the stars relative to the Sun on a given date will rotate around 180 degrees, so that constellations high in the sky in Summer will end up high in the sky in Winter instead. Then 13,000 years after that, they will have moved back to where they started. This is especially interesting for Polaris, the North Star, which will end up as far as 1/3rd of the sky away from the North Pole, rather than it's present position which is closely aligned with the pole. The Hindu astrologers corrected their astrological dates, so theirs are in fact aligned with the Sun.

[@WildBluntHickok]

Pretty sure the reason my horoscope is incorrect is because there isn't anything you can write that will happen to an entire twelveth of the population of the city.

[@almostfm]

There's another interesting thing-the Ecliptic (the path the Sun appears to trace in the sky) actually moves through _13_ constellations. From about November 20 through December 18, the Sun is in the constellation of Ophiuchus.

[@dpm-jt8rj]

These little videos are wonderful. They are not only a good reason to slack off for five to 15 minutes, but I get to learn something! How can a boss say no to that?

[@richardlilley6274]

Thank you for sharing From Yorkshire England

[@reidselby2569]

This was new.....thank you for posting !

[@philprint]

Nice Story. Keep them coming!

[@delmancini8428]

Nice video, KZbin finally recommend me a video that I found interesting. I have liked and subscribed. Thank you and have a nice day.

[@marbleman52]

So..."Does anybody really know what time it is"...LOL..Compliments of the great band.... "Chicago"...Talk about a convoluted and tangled web of political marriages, Religion, and Science...sheesshh..!! The only way this could have been more confusing was to have had a lawyer talking about it..!! Actually, I thoroughly enjoyed this. I knew that our modern calendar had gone through many changes and that political marriages between England & France & Spain & Russia &...probably the rest of that part of the world Ha...made for some very interesting politics...But I can just imagine how fun it was for you, Mr. History Guy, to write all this down and read it all to us. Thank you...And about Easter. I think that according to the Bible, that what we celebrate as Easter ( a pagan holiday) is actually Passover and is calculated as being the first Sunday after the first full Moon after the Spring Equinox. Okay...don't ask me what year this REALLY is....who the heck really knows..."Chicago" didn't even know what time it was...!!

[@TheHistoryGuyChannel]

You are correct about easter in theory, but the problem is that the full moon falls on different days in different time zones, so the date was tied to the calendar, which then fell victim to the inaccuracies of the Julian calendar.

[@marbleman52]

It has been confusing to a lot of folks seeing Easter jumping around so much, but I imagine that most people never stop to think & read up on just why that is. Anyway, a very interesting journey you took us on...thanks again.

[@gumunduringigumundsson9344]

According to some it is 13billion 7hundredmillion 2thousand and eighteen years old lol! And to some clever ppl according to the first temple marking first permanent settlement was then so now is 12018 just add one.. they hope itll give humans more context to broader history and therefore more (whatever the word is that makes you feel greater lineage and honor for your tribe) haegemony.. just ask channel kurgezagt. Thanks History Guy!

[@geraldenders8393]

what a great story, keep up the good work

[@robertbilling6266]

Very good again. BTW I have heard that the protests against the change were because tenant farmers were expected to pay a full month's rent for a two and a half week month.

[@davidc6510]

Awesome history lesson. Thanks!

[@SirKenchalot]

I suppose one of the more recent calendars to be introduced is the Unix calendar or epoch whereby the time and date on computers running Unix, Linux and now macOS and pretty much any other OS are all calculated relative to 00:00:00 on January 1st 1970. However, even that has some issues, with leap seconds added from time to time that cause some headaches for developers of time-critical systems such as finance.

[@WildBluntHickok]

Also some files are stripped of their time info (used to sometimes see this in media piracy) and will claim to have a last modified date of the first second of Jan 1st 1970, further adjusted by time zone (so dec 31st 1969 if you're anywhere in north america like me).

[@abelieversperspective9595]

I have two watches. One always runs 15 minutes behind. It's never accurate. The other one is broken. It tells the correct time twice a day.

[@jimbo5635]

Best KZbin channel ever.

[@heronimousbrapson863]

Although the civil reckonning of New Years day was March 25 when England used the Julian calendar, January 1 was still popularly regarded as New Years day even then. Samuel Pepys kept his diaries dated Jan. 1 to Jan. 1. Dates before March 25 were often written to observe both new years conventions, for example, Feb. 20, 1661/2.

[@southernwanderer7912]

I remember reading a book of fiction years ago based on this calendar change that was about an English lady telling the story of her grandfather and others, who had been whipped up into a frenzy by a bad guy, convincing them that 11 days had been stolen from them, and the murder and mayhem went from there. Can't remember the name of the book unfortunately but I remember it was a good book.

[@blackcorp0001]

Fascinating great viewing

[@jsmcguireIII]

Well done mr guy, you covered that in record time.

[@erictaylor5462]

*YES!* I got it right. I said "nothing at all happened on that day." There were no births, no deaths, nobody hit anybody, and nothing was stolen.

[@erictaylor5462]

Well, salaries are paid by the year, not the month. You could say you are paid shot for 11 months of the year.

[@erictaylor5462]

Imagine you agree to do a job for $200. If you are paid $150 you are "paid short" It means they did not pay you what they agreed to pay you.

[@erictaylor5462]

Not so stupid. Idioms can be a bit odd sometimes. I was horrified when I found out the job my Irish friend had when he was 13 was to go around on Sunday morning and "knock up" all the single ladies. To him, knocking some one up was to knock on their window to wake the,... But to me knocking someone up is making them pregnant.

[@jjames3793]

LOL just made me think of a sign outside a house a few blocks away from me that looks like a historical marker that says on this very spot in 1851 absolutely nothing Important happened. lol Tho I'm not sure if that's completely true or not being that not only was it a much more bustling town in the 1800s and was even known as the Barbery coast of the east. with it being at the end of the Erie canal along the Hudson river

[@jamesgoetzke9509]

I love this channel. It always reminds me of how ignorant I am. Ignorant...not stupid. There is a difference.

[@WildBluntHickok]

Fun fact: there are Doctor Who characters (The Faction Paradox) who through the use of time machines make their base in the missing 11 days ("The 11 Day Empire"). Something about the heads of England doing a mystical ritual to actually strip the timestream of 11 days and the callender switch being the cover story. Yeah no matter how you try to explain it it just doesn't quite work, but they still used it as the basis for a couple dozen spinoff novels and audiobooks.

[@knightforlorn6731]

top notch content. Really good stuff. Wish my dad was here to see.

[@ghrey8282]

That was informative and entertaining thank you.

[@blade502gt]

Good video good explanation 👏 nice to see how England was always Unique

[@reco2186]

Thank you

[@RabidRazorback80]

I hear some of these videos and all I can think is your library and internet search history have to be bonkers

[@BanaiFeldstein]

Many vital records in Poland in the 1800s have both calendar dates listed, Julian and Gregorian. They're 12 days apart. In 1900, they went to 13 days apart.

[@dougfairweather]

Love it, thanks!

[@charlesprice925]

Confused yet? Well the rent is still due on the 1st.

[@martinstent5339]

Prior to the calendar act, the new year in England started on March 25th. the Treasury wanted to make sure there would be no loss of tax revenue, so it decided that the tax year should remain as 365 days. And so the beginning of the following tax year was moved from 25 March to 5 April in 1753. Unhappy with the fact that 1800 was not a leap year the treasury declared it “a tax leap year” and moved the start of the financial year to 6 April. In 1900 they decided to just leave it where it was, and so the financial year still starts in the UK on 6 April. How crazy is that?

[@korlaxium]

Cool intro and outro, man

[@chrisfisher1625]

I really liked this one! Very interesting and entertaining subject

[@colingibson8018]

Thanks MHG &MRS HG Although I am British I don't ever remember having that lesson. Thanks for the effort amazing.

[@frankabate3493]

HG what did they do to anybody born during those 11 days. Thanks

[@carwashvnvmc]

I'm a new Subscriber but I sure do enjoy The History Guy!

[@ravagesoyjoy]

The same how nothing happened at tiananmen square 1989...

[@michaelegan6092]

It's even more complicated than that. Up to the death of Romulus, the Romans(and most other civilisations) counted 10 months of 36 days. There are examples of Babylonian dates such as the 34th day of the month. It was Romulus's successor Numa who added 2 months at the start of the year, thus the intercalary date of the 29 of February was actually the last day of the year in a certain manner. This is why December and the three months in front of it are displaced. Sept,Oct, Nov and Dec were 7th,8th,9th and 10th originally.

[@cward970]

good one thank you

[@donalddodson7365]

Fun facts. Thank you.

[@jennyjeffery9483]

I love your channel! I’ve done lots of genealogy and I used to live in England. Aberdeenshire is a county in Scotland, not England.

[@jesusseoane2296]

If any one wanders why January is the first month of the year, and what it has to do with the Roman conquest of the Iberian peninsula! Is history deserves to be remembered!

[@arturzatorski595]

Hello Professor "The History Guy." Great video as always, and great channel! However I'm curious, why are the number of subscribers and the number of views for your videos so small??? Are you not marketing your awesome channel enough, or is it just indicative of the dumbing down of so many that they don't watch your channel because of it's educational nature?

[@TheHistoryGuyChannel]

Thank you for the compliment, although I should mention that I am not a professor, just a lover of history. I would love to have more subscribers, it just takes time to build audience.

[@garyK.45ACP]

My wife is from Ukraine, where the calendar was changed in 1918 by the Soviets, but the Orthodox Church refused to change. The Church still uses the Julian calendar, currently 13 days behind our current calendar (and it will add another day behind in a few years) Hence, Christmas is on January 7 by our calendar. December 25 is just another day in the Former Soviet Union where the Orthodox Church is most common. The few people who celebrate "Catholic Christmas" celebrate on December 25, but it is not an official "holiday". Orthodox Easter this year is one week behind "ours". Some years it is the same as ours (last year) Countries which are primarily Orthodox (Greece, Serbia, Former Soviet Union, etc.) still use the Julian Calendar, at least for Religious Holidays. As I understand, there were two reasons for this. 1. The Church would not accept "the government" deciding when Christmas and Easter were and 2. The Gregorian Calendar was developed by the Catholic Pope, so...NO!!!!!!!!!! We spend a couple months a year in Ukraine and if it is during the holidays it can be very confusing! Most people settle it by having parties and skipping work from December 24 (Gregorian Calendar) until January 13 (Gregorian calendar) and that covers them all. January 13 is a Holiday celebrated as "The Old New Year". If you can imagine the week between Christmas and New Year's in the USA, that is what it is like for an extra 2 weeks.

[@avnrulz8587]

I remember using 'Julian Date' on military forms in the 1980s.

[@bxdanny]

Julian Date (continuous numbering of days, without regard to the calendar) has no connection with Julian Calendar.

[@avnrulz8587]

@@bxdanny considering it's based on the Julian calendar, I would think so.

[@bxdanny]

@@avnrulz8587 Julian Date (or Julian Day Number) is not based on the Julian Calendar in any way. I don't think you used Julian Calendar, aka "Old Style", dates on military forms. (If you did, I can't imagine why.

[@avnrulz8587]

@@bxdanny We used the 'Julian Date', which was last digit of the calendar year and the number of the day of the year; today would be 0350 for the form. I used it for all of my aviation maintenance forms in the 1980s.

[@shizzle5150]

another interesting tidbit is that the command "cal 9 1752" on linux shows this as it jumps from the 2nd to the 14th. Just a little artifact left over in modern computing :D

[@PInk77W1]

“I die the Kings good subject, but Gods first.” -St. Thomas More

[@nugley]

Liked and subscribed, with thanks.

[@jvsmith7888]

Very interesting, learned something new.

[@JackdeDuCoeur]

I had once heard that George Washington's birthday, now celebrated on February 22 had originally occurred on February 11 reflecting that 11 day difference in the change from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar, but I can't see how since the 11 days were lost in September. Had I heard wrong, or is there some explanation?

[@jilpoke]

Also, because the British used March 25 as the beginning of the new year, he was born in a different year.

[@joeahearn4413]

And the United States Congress in its infinite wisdom, moved the celebration of George Washington's birthday, then a Federal holiday, to the 3rd Monday in February, thus ensuring the celebration never fell on either Feb. 11th or Feb. 22nd! To cover up their mistake they later changed the holiday to President's Day.

[@rwboa22]

@@jilpoke George Washington was officially born on February 11, 1731, which became February 22, 1732 under the calendar reform.

[@steveclark4291]

Why is the 15th of March considered the Ides of March ? I have heard it called that but never knew why ! Could you possibly do a video on it ? Thank you !