There is a strange incident that occurred in the month of September 1752, in which the world had lost 11 days. in September there was no date of 3-13. so from the 2nd to the 14th jump. for those who want to see, just try it set your computer calendar. Except
for windows users, can not view the calendar, for those who use linux,
or windows in addition to, please try, set your computer date the month
of September 1752.
On 2 September 1752, which occurred a strange place that still remains genealogists on their feet. On that day, the British Isles and all the British colonies, including America, lost 11 days - September 3 to 13. People go to sleep and when they awoke the next morning, the date has changed to 14 September. There is unrest in rural areas because people think the government tried to cheat them of 11 days of their lives. Although
today disappear on British soil in 1752, numbers have gone elsewhere -
France in 1582, Austria in 1584, and Norway in 1700.
England were among the last countries in the world to accept that they actually use the calendar disabled. The
Julian calendar - named after Julius Caesar, who adopted it around 45
BC - declared March 25 the New Year's Day and added that the year will
be 365 days and 6 hours long. The
Council of Nicaea adopted the official calendar in 325 AD As it becomes
possible to measure more accurately the length of the solar year,
astronomers discovered that the system exceeds the Julian solar year by
11 minutes, or 24 hours every 131 years, and three days every 400 years.
This excess of 10 days between 325 BC and 1582 ADPope
Gregory XIII ordered a new calendar, called the Gregorian calendar in
1582, when most of the world jump forward by 10 days on October 5, thus
restoring the vernal equinox March 21. To
prevent recurrence of this mistake, he ordered that, in every 400
years, an extra day of leap year should be removed three times. To
achieve this on a regular basis, he eliminated the last day of February
in the year one hundred and first two digits is not divisible by four
without a remainder. So, it was eliminated in 1700, 1800, and 1900, but will not be eliminated in 2000.All Catholic countries, following the Pope's orders, implementing a new system. But
the English, then in trouble with the Church of Rome, refused to
participate in the new calendar until the mid-18th century and later the
difference had grown to 11 days. All land except England Scotland, which converts the calendar 100 years earlier, now celebrating New Year's Day on January 1. In Russia, the Julian calendar still in use.Although
the official calendar, people in Britain and the colonies began using
the Gregorian system at the beginning of the 16th century. Thus,
many early colonial records including double date, written as "12 Feb
1661/1662," shows that, although officially in 1661, some consider it to
be 1662.Genealogists,
especially those just starting their search for ancestors, need to
check the dates found in the English-speaking countries between 1582 and
1752. Is this the date indicated as OS (Old Style) or NS (New Style)? Is there a date listed as 1750/51? That
means it would have probably been between January 1 and March 24, which
means that 1750 is an old-style notation and in 1751, a new one. Double these dates only happen in January, February and March - once in the other months and never after 1752.In addition, the date in the 17th century often have a month which is indicated by numbers and not names. This is because most of the month was Roman or "infidels" and the name of the Puritans and Quakers do not like them. Since
March is considered as the first month of the year prior to 1752, the
date before which might read like this: "13, 2 mo: 1683." This is a "13
April 1683." In general, the day it arrived first and second month, but
for sure, genealogists make sure to compare dates with others in the same record.Often, a change in the calendar will explain the birth of two children seem to be too short a period. So,
if a researcher finds that Joshua and Rachel Smith had a daughter Mary,
born March 22, 1638, and from the record of a son, Henry, born February
27, 1639, it would seem that they were born 28 days apart, but actually
was born 11 months separately, according to the old and new-style dating.
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