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From: "Richard Smith" <>
Subject: Re: Dates written early 1700s
Date: Wed, 6 May 1998 18:25:24 +0100


E.C.Apling wrote in message
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>
>
>The answer is that until 1752, to calendar systems were is use in
England.
>The civil or legal year began of 25 March and the historical year of
1
>January. So it was usual to list dates in the earlier part of the
year with
>both year numbers written as if they were a fraction. So Jan 24
1713/14 is
>from our viewpont Jan 24 1714 - with the additional problem that the
date is
>in the Julian Calendar (not the Gregorian as we now use) - the
Gregorian
>calendar was introduced in 1753 with the omission of eleven days (18
>February being reckoned as 1 March) - which is why the tax year in
England
>starts on 5 April (= 25th March in the old calendar).
>

I thought that I had read that the `missing days' were 3rd - 13th Sept
1752. Is this wrong?

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Richard Smith.
Clare College,
Cambridge.

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