Hey, kids. Just a short history fun fact for today. If this were the year 1582 and you lived in Italy, Poland, Portugal, or Spain, today would not be happening.
That is to say, in the year 1582 there was no October 5. It's sort of like how in those Wayside School books there was no 19th story.
Yes, if you lived in Spain in 1582, yesterday would have been October 4, and today would be October 15. That's because earlier in 1582, Pope Gregory XIII decided it was time to switch from the Julian calendar, on account of how there were leap years just fucking everywhere. The Julian calendar picked up a day about every 134 years, so by 1582 they were about 10 days off and needed to get back. The solution was to adopt the Gregorian calendar, but first they had to account for those ten days, so the Pope just...got rid of them. Poof. October 5-14, gone. Is that some crazy Rip Van Winkle shit or what?
So that means that Saint Theresa of Avila died 427 years and one day ago, on October 4. And she was buried the next day, 427 years ago...on October 15. Is your mind sufficiently blown?
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So...let me get this straight...in 1582 they just cut out those days completely to make up all the extra days they kept getting from the Julian's batshit craziness?
ReplyDeleteI think you broke my brain.
If I were to wake up tomorrow and have it be next week, I'd probably cry.
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