Take a Look at September 1752 Explanation for what you see: Isn't the output queer? A month with whole of eleven days missing. It all happened when Pope Gregory XIII ordered a change from Julian to the Gregorian Calendar in 1582, they had to cut down 11 days! Therefore, days were cut out between 2nd and 14th September 1752. But the government ended up paying for full 30 days.. And that's how "Paid Leave" was born. Hail the King!!! The change from Julian Calender to Gregorian CalenderIn 325 A.D Nicene council officially adopted the 'Julian Calendar' which declared that 'a year would be 365 days and 6 hours long' and March 25th being the 'New year'. Many centuries passed and at last astronomers found out the flaw in Julian calendar which exceeded the newly measured 'Solar year' by 11 minutes. This amounted over time from 325 A.D to 1582 A.D, exceeding nearly 10 days! In order to avoid this error and to make the dates go in uniformity with the dates followed by the world, Pope Gregory XIII ordered a new calendar, named as 'Gregorian Calendar'. As Julian calendar did not have leap years, thedifference of 11 days had to be cut down. What did happen in the month of September, 1752?So in 1752, the government ordered to cut down the dates between 2nd and 14th of that month for every colonies controlled by them. This meant that the British Isles, English colonies and America, lost 11 days in September 1752. The days in the September month of 1752 began with 1, 2 but 11 days was skipped and the days continued from 14, 15 till 30th. This made that from 3rd to 13th nothing actually happened. Before that April is the first Month of the year. Even then people didn't agree to use the Roman Julian Calendar and celebrated 1st April as a New Year then the King announced that, those who celebrate April as the New Year are fools... (April fools...) History is really interesting!!!  |
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