Do you know 11 days went missing in 1752?

Do you have a calendar of 1752? No. Well then why don't you use your Linux box to see the calendar or you can check in any of the online calendar or your phone too. Well the interesting thing about this year if you noticed in the picture then 11 days went missing from this year. Check the image again, September: You will see after 1,2 the date suddenly jumps to 14. Oh God, what happened? 11 days missing?

Well this has an interesting story that's what I wanted to share with you all. If you check Wikipedia for the year 1752 .You'll see this entry
July–DecemberSeptember 2 – Great Britain and the British Empire adopts the Gregorian calendar, meaning the Julian date of Wednesday, September 2 was followed by the Gregorian date of Thursday, September 14.
While shifting the from Julian Calendar to Gregorian Calendar the dates were wiped off. And According to Julian Calendar New year was on 1st April but according to Gregorian Calendar January was New Year. And the result it was hard to accept January as New Year for the people who had been celebrating New Year on April 1st according to the Julian Calendar. So the then ruler, made a formal announcement that those who celebrated New Year on April 1st were Fools. And since then April 1st is April fools day, and is celebrated in different countries.


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