2007-08-28T14:10:47Ztag:blog.limedaley.com,2018:/isso/thread/post/calendar-historytag:blog.limedaley.com,2018:/isso/545/23852007-08-28T14:10:47ZSursumCorda<p>You should try being a genealogist, which sometimes seems to require an advance degree in calendarology to figure out dates. Different countries made the switch from Julian to Gregorian at different times. Quakers (and some others) didn't use the familiar month names, but rather numbers, e.g. &quot;10th month.&quot; October, right? Well, maybe. We also switched the beginning of the new year from March 25 to January 1 at one point (and not always the same year; depends on the country).</p> <p>Anyone care to hazard a guess as to why one would start the new year on March 25?</p>tag:blog.limedaley.com,2018:/isso/545/23842007-08-28T12:51:20ZPeter V<p>That's from the change-over from Julian to Gregorian calendars, which happened in 1752 in Britain and its colonies. They had to skip several days to make the adjustment.</p>