From: Paul Winalski <paul.winalski@gmail.com>
To: Marc Donner <marc.donner@gmail.com>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: When did "man cal" lose the comment about 1752?
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2024 10:00:43 -0400 [thread overview]
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On Sun, Jul 14, 2024 at 5:25 PM Marc Donner <marc.donner@gmail.com> wrote:
> Note that the switch to the Gregorian calendar happened at different times
> in different countries. In Catholic-dominated countries it happened in
> October of 1582. The English-speaking world, being Protestant-dominated,
> waited until September of 1752 to adopt it.
>
> And Russia didn't adopt the Gregorian calendar until 1918. IIRC the
Eastern Orthodox churches still use the Julian calendar for scheduling
ecclesiastical events such as the date of Easter.
-Paul W.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-07-15 14:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-07-11 1:24 [TUHS] " Dave Horsfall
2024-07-11 1:44 ` [TUHS] " Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2024-07-11 3:10 ` Dave Horsfall
2024-07-11 19:31 ` Stuff Received
2024-07-11 1:53 ` Henry Bent
2024-07-11 3:29 ` Dave Horsfall
2024-07-14 19:04 ` Greg A. Woods
2024-07-14 21:15 ` Marc Donner
2024-07-15 14:00 ` Paul Winalski [this message]
2024-07-15 18:21 ` Marc Donner
2024-07-15 18:41 ` Phil Budne
2024-07-15 17:44 ` Greg A. Woods
2024-07-15 19:03 ` Ken Thompson
2024-07-15 19:04 ` Ken Thompson
2024-07-15 20:02 ` Jaap Akkerhuis via TUHS
2024-07-15 19:33 ` Marc Donner
2024-07-16 15:54 ` Paul Winalski
2024-07-11 4:20 Rudi Blom
2024-07-15 19:52 [TUHS] " Douglas McIlroy
2024-07-16 6:59 ` [TUHS] " markus schnalke
2024-07-16 20:22 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2024-07-16 21:21 ` segaloco via TUHS
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