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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

1752 was also the first year that began on 1 January. Until the Calendar (New Style) Act of 1750, 25 March was considered to be the start of the new year. So 1751 was just 282 days long, running ...