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Thursday, 4 October 1582, was followed by Friday, 15 October 1582, with ten days skipped. Philip II of Spain decreed the change from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar, [3] which affected much of Catholic Europe, as Philip was at the time ruler over Spain and Portugal as well as much of Italy.
Inter gravissimas (English: "Among the most serious...") was a papal bull issued by Pope Gregory XIII on 24 February 1582. [1] [2] The document, written in Latin, reformed the Julian calendar. The reform came to be regarded as a new calendar in its own right and came to be called the Gregorian calendar, which is used in most countries today.
October 15: The day after October 4, 1582, is designated October 15 by order of Pope Gregory XIII June 21: Japanese warlord Oda Nobunaga assassinated in "incident at HonnÅ-ji" 1582 ( MDLXXXII ) 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 ...
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To reinstate the association, the reform advanced the date by 10 days: [c] Thursday 4 October 1582 was followed by Friday 15 October 1582. [3] In addition, the reform also altered the lunar cycle used by the Church to calculate the date for Easter, because astronomical new moons were occurring four days before the calculated dates.
The Gregorian calendar reform also dealt with the accumulated difference between these figures, between the years 325 and 1582, by skipping 10 days to set the ecclesiastical date of the equinox to be 21 March, the median date of its occurrence at the time of the First Council of Nicea in 325.
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Struggling with substance abuse and with two children in foster care, Day disappeared on March 30, 2001. Her mother waited a few days to report the 28-year-old as missing.