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  2. Old Style and New Style dates - Wikipedia

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    [6] [d] (Scotland had already made this aspect of the changes, on 1 January 1600.) [7] [8] The second (in effect [e]) adopted the Gregorian calendar in place of the Julian calendar. Thus "New Style" can refer to the start-of-year adjustment, to the adoption of the Gregorian calendar, or to the combination of the two. It was through their use in ...

  3. Gregorian calendar - Wikipedia

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    The Gregorian calendar, like the Julian calendar, is a solar calendar with 12 months of 28–31 days each. The year in both calendars consists of 365 days, with a leap day being added to February in the leap years. The months and length of months in the Gregorian calendar are the same as for the Julian calendar.

  4. List of adoption dates of the Gregorian calendar by country

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    Previously used the Korean calendar. In addition to the Gregorian calendar, the Juche calendar is in use. North Macedonia: Yugoslavia: 1919 14 Jan 28 Jan 13 [25] Norway: Denmark-Norway: 1700 18 Feb 1 Mar 11 Poland: Poland: 1582 4 Oct 15 Oct 10 Local resistance [21] Poland Duchy of Prussia: 1610 22 Aug 2 Sept 10 Southern Ducal Prussia is now ...

  5. Adoption of the Gregorian calendar - Wikipedia

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    The adoption of the Gregorian Calendar has taken place in the history of most cultures and societies around the world, marking a change from one of various traditional (or "old style") dating systems to the contemporary (or "new style") system – the Gregorian calendar – which is widely used around the world today. Some states adopted the ...

  6. List of calendars - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of calendars.Included are historical calendars as well as proposed ones. Historical calendars are often grouped into larger categories by cultural sphere or historical period; thus O'Neil (1976) distinguishes the groupings Egyptian calendars (Ancient Egypt), Babylonian calendars (Ancient Mesopotamia), Indian calendars (Hindu and Buddhist traditions of the Indian subcontinent ...

  7. Old Style 1752 - Wikipedia

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    This is the calendar for Old Style 1752, a leap year which began on 1 January, and dropped 3–13 September to transition to the Gregorian calendar. [1] Previously, the Old Style calendar in England (and related regions) had begun on 25 March and ended with the following March, on 24 March. [ 1 ]

  8. 1752 in Great Britain - Wikipedia

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    1 January – the British Empire (except Scotland, which had changed New Year's Day to 1 January in 1600) adopts today as the first day of the year as part of adoption of the Gregorian calendar, which is completed in September: today is the first day of the New Year under the terms of last year's Calendar Act. [2]

  9. 1752 - Wikipedia

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    1752 was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 1752nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 752nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 52nd year of the 18th century, and the 3rd year of the 1750s decade. As of the start of 1752, the ...