Six and a half million Britons went to bed on September 2, 1752, and woke up on September 14. The reason? The Calendar (New Style) Act of 1750, of course.

4- 2 September 1752 was followed by 14 September 1752 (a drop of 11 days to align with the Gregorian calendar) Difference between Julian Calendar and the Gregorian Calendar S.No.

It was not a time machine, nor a TARDIS that caused 11 days to go missing from the calendar in 1752. It was a calendar change, a long overdue one in fact. For centuries, much of the world had ...

If today is your birthday, consider yourself lucky. Had you been alive in 1752, there would have been no party for you. That was the year the British Empire dropped the Julian calendar. To get ...

England held out against it until 1752. By then, the Julian calendar had added another day’s error, so the English were 11 days out of sync with the rest of Europe.

Where countries including France and Norway did adopt the Gregorian calendar in 1582 and 1700 respectively, England and America (present day USA) followed the change in 1752. According to the ...

Depending on the calendar, George Washington was born on either February 11, 1731, or February 22, 1732. Life's Little Mysteries explains why he could celebrate two birthdays.