People who were living in Britain or any other English colonies went to bed on 2 September 1752 and woke up on 14 September 1752. The reason? The Calendar (New Style) Act, 1750. People at that time ...

(WHTM) — In 45 B.C.E. Rome adopted a new calendar proposed by Julius Caesar which, not surprisingly, became known as the Julian Calendar. (Credit where credit is due: a Greek astronomer and ...

Here's the thing about September 10, 1752. It didn't exist. In fact, as far as the UK and its colonies were concerned (this included what later became the US), there was no September 3 through 13 at ...

George Washington and other British colonists went to sleep on Sept. 2, 1752; when they awoke the next morning, it was Sept. 14, 1752. Ben Franklin marveled at how pleasant it was for an old man to go ...

If you’re fretting about how you wasted that extra leap second added to the clock this week, consider Britain in the late summer of 1752. On September 2nd of that year, the Sceptered Isle was still ...

It was not a time machine, nor a TARDIS that caused 11 days to go missing from the calendar in 1752. It was a calendar change, a long overdue one in fact. For centuries, much of the world had existed ...

If today is your birthday, consider yourself lucky. Had you been alive in 1752, there would have been no party for you. That was the year the British Empire dropped the Julian calendar. To get current ...

In honor of Leap Day, this read is for the history nerds. Ever wonder how America caught our calendar up with the rest of the world? In September 1752, we skipped 11 days. According to NASA, the Earth ...