In the 1500’s most Roman Catholic
Countries and Scotland adopted the Gregorian Calendar (a calendar designed to
compensate for the errors in time that built up over the centuries) over the Julian
Calendar that had been being used.
Several Protestant Countries ignored this new calendar however, for
another 200 years or so. England stuck
to the Julian Calendar until 1751 before actually making the switch. Orthodox
countries took the longest to switch over, one of those being Russia who did
not switch to the Gregorian Calendar until after the Russian Revolution in
1917. What did this mean for Russia Back
then? Well, in 1908 there were the London Olympics right? Since Russian at that
point was still using the Julian Calendar, they wound up showing up to the
London Olympics 12 days late!! They missed the Olympics entirely!!! What’s the moral
of the story? Keep up to date with your calendars yo! :P
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