Calendar Confusion (1752)
This Day in Esoteric Political History
Jody Avirgan & Radiotopia
4.6 • 982 Ratings
🗓️ 16 September 2021
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
It’s September 16th. Or is it? We recently got an email from a listener asking us which calendar we are using when we discuss episodes prior to 1752.
Jody, Niki, and Kellie look at the switchover from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar that took place in the mid-1700s, how it got politicized, and how it continues to lead to mass confusion.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to this day in esoteric political history from radiotopia. |
| 0:06.7 | My name is Jody Avergan. |
| 0:09.8 | This day, September 16, 1752, was actually September 4th, 1752, but no, it was actually written on... |
| 0:19.0 | I've already 15 seconds into this podcast, confused myself, and that is in many ways the purpose of this |
| 0:25.2 | podcast. |
| 0:26.2 | Here is the deal. |
| 0:26.8 | This show, as you know, listeners, is focused on key dates. |
| 0:29.8 | We do a show on a certain date. |
| 0:31.7 | We pick a thing that happened on that date in the past and we talk about it and we do that throughout American history and we occasionally do stuff from very early on in our history the 1600s and the early 1700s and we recently got a note from a |
| 0:45.1 | listener Amari wondering which calendar we are using when we do stuff from |
| 0:50.6 | before the 1750s and that is one of those questions folks where you don't even |
| 0:54.7 | realize that you were doing something until they ask you why you're doing it. |
| 0:59.2 | But here's the deal. In 1752, Britain and the British Empire swive. the September of 1752, Britain's went to bed on September 2nd. They woke up on |
| 1:15.0 | September 14th. The calendar just switched. They lost those 12 days. So here to |
| 1:20.9 | discuss the Julian Turgorian switchover |
| 1:24.7 | how confused we can possibly make ourselves and listeners |
| 1:27.5 | over the course of this podcast. |
| 1:29.3 | And more importantly, whether we need to go back |
| 1:30.8 | and issue corrections on all of the episodes we've done from before 1752 |
| 1:35.1 | are Nicole Hammer of Columbia and Kelly Carter Jackson of Wesley. |
| 1:38.9 | Hello there. |
| 1:39.3 | Hey there, I'm confused. |
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