Re: VMs: Stars or No Stars

[Koontz John E <John.Koontz@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 15 Oct 2004, Pamela Richards wrote:
> Different parts of Europe converted to the New
> Calendar on different dates.  For example, the
> Catholic countries changed their calendar in 1582, but
> Bohemia changed over in 1584.  Protestant Germany, on
> the other hand, did not undergo the same calendar
> shift until 1700.

England 1752, Russian 1918.

See

http://users.skynet.be/sky60754/genealbe/hulpwetkalverhe.htm
http://europeanhistory.about.com/library/weekly/aa041301c.htm.

Histories of certain periods in certain languages from certain time frames
often give all the dates twice, once in each form.  For example, British
histories of the War of the Spanish Succession from before 1752, or
Russian histories of the Napoleonic Wars from before the Revolution.

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