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1582 was a common year starting on Monday in the Julian calendar, and a common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the Proleptic Gregorian calendar. This year saw the beginning of the Gregorian calendar switch , when the papal bull Inter gravissimas introduced the Gregorian calendar, adopted by Spain, Portugal, the ...
Even before 1582, the year sometimes had to be double-dated because of the different beginnings of the year in various countries. Woolley, writing in his biography of John Dee (1527–1608/9), notes that immediately after 1582 English letter writers "customarily" used "two dates" on their letters, one OS and one NS. [54]
The year 1582 in science and technology included a number of events, some of which are listed here. This year sees the introduction of the Gregorian calendar , promulgated by Pope Gregory XIII in the Papal bull Inter gravissimas on February 24 and based largely on the work of Christopher Clavius .
The months and days are those of the Gregorian calendar, but the year is either the "Western calendar" (西暦, seireki) year number per the Common Era or Anno Domini system, or a year of the nengō of the emperor on the throne. Since 1873, an era and the first year of that era has begun on the day of the year that the emperor ascended the throne.
U.S. presidents generally spend years in office, but the ninth president of the United States served only for a month. William Henry Harrison holds the record for serving the shortest term thus ...
To reduce misunderstandings about the date, it was normal even in semi-official documents such as parish registers to place a statutory new-year heading after 24 March (for example "1661") and another heading from the end of the following December, 1661/62, a form of dual dating to indicate that in the following twelve weeks or so, the year was ...
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The days get longer after the winter solstice but sunrises keep getting later into mid-January.