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Funnily enough the new year did use to start in spring before the adoption of the Gregorian calendar, so you were almost right, just 300 years too late
by shawabawa3 4y ago
Funnily enough the new year did use to start in spring before the adoption of the Gregorian calendar, so you were almost right, just 300 years too late
- tolmasky 4y agoInterestingly, I did learn about that later as a kid, which stuck with me for a completely different reason: the new year used to start on my birthday! (March 25th)
- SSLy 4y agoNew year was moved to january in antiquity, nothing to do with Gregory XIII or his calendar.
- messe 4y agoNot in England, Wales, Ireland and Britain's American colonies, which all made the change of the new year from March to January in 1752 alongside the switch to the Gregorian calendar. Scotland made the change in 1600.