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> When Britain went Gregorian, with the results shown by cal, there were riots where people chanted “Give us back our 11 days!”. The rioters believed that every
by aquova 4y ago
> When Britain went Gregorian, with the results shown by cal, there were riots where people chanted “Give us back our 11 days!”. The rioters believed that everyone was fated to die on a given calendar date, and thus everybody's life had been shortened.
Sadly, this seems to be an urban legend https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calendar_(New_Style)_Act_1750#Reaction_and_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calendar_(New_Style)_Act_1750#...
- vincent-manis 4y agoIt seems that I fell for the myth of the riots. However, it is true that the Tories opposed the change bitterly, in part for sensible reasons (if done improperly, it would have caused a full rent to be payable for a 19-day month), and in part because it was a Whig proposal. Blind opposition because it was the other party's idea? We can all be glad that this no longer happens.