On this day, through the enactment of the Calendar (New Style) Act 1750, Great Britain and its possessions finally adopted the Gregorian calendar, by which time it was necessary to correct by 11 days. Thus Wednesday, 2 September 1752, was officially followed by Thursday, 14 September 1752. In Great Britain, the term ‘New Style’ was used for the calendar and the Act omits any acknowledgement of Pope Gregory. The Gregorian calendar was originally decreed in 1582 by Pope Gregory XIII, to correct an error in the Julian calendar that was causing an erroneous calculation of the date of Easter. According to Gregory’s scientific advisers, the calendar had acquired ten excess leap days, so when the Catholic countries of Europe adopted the new calendar, the day after Thursday, 4 October 1582 officially became Friday, 15 October 1582. With a few exceptions, the Gregorian calendar is now the world’s universal civil calendar.
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