Give Us Back Our Eleven Days! When Eleven Days in September of 1752 Simply Disappeared and the Historical Urban Legend it Created
Imagine a world where the day to day calendar--something as simple as what day in the year it actually is--could vary from place to place. The New Year might begin as late as March 25th, or much earlier, and things like holidays and the start and end of the seasons could fluctuate from year to year based on the phases of the moon or some other quirk of astronomy much like Easter Sunday and Passover week do to this day. Well, that is exactly the type of world that citizens of Great Britain and her colonies--including our forefathers here in America--lived in until the year 1752. In that momentous year everything changed. Our calendar was completely reset, eleven days from the month of September simply vanished into thin air and for a brief moment in time the entire English speaking world nearly descended into chaos--or did it? But not everyone lived that way until as recently as 1752. In fact, most Catholics (and many other people who weren’...