Compare Plain Text And Find Differences Between Two Texts - Free web based online diff tool - Index Of Different Layouts The 1752 Calendar Change: The Julian Calendar to The Gregorian Calendar The Julian Calendar | The Gregorian Calendar | Double Dating | The Changes of 1752 Which Calendar Is It? | Links | Bibliography Today, Americans are used to a calendar with a "year" based the earth's rotation around the sun, with "months" having no relationship to the cycles of the moon and New Years Day falling on January 1. However, that system was not adopted in England and its colonies until 1752. The changes implemented that year have created challenges for historians and genealogists working with early colonial records, since it is sometimes hard to determine whether information was entered according to the then-current English calendar or the "New Style" calendar we use today. Throughout history there have been numerous attempts to convey time in relation to the sun and moon. In 45 B.C., Julius Caesar ordered a calendar consisting of twelve months based on a solar year. In accordance with a 1750 act of Parliament , England and its colonies changed calendars in 1752. Garman, Leo H.
Regnal years of English monarchs The following is a list of the official regnal years of the monarchs of the Kingdom of England (subsequently Great Britain and the United Kingdom), from 1066 to the present day. The regnal calendar ("nth year of the reign of King X", etc.) is used in many official British government and legal documents of historical interest, notably parliamentary statutes. Overview[edit] For centuries, English official public documents have been dated by the regnal years of the ruling monarch. Traditionally, parliamentary statutes are referenced by regnal year, e.g. the Occasional Conformity Act of 1711 is officially referenced as "10 Anne c.6" (read as "the sixth chapter of the statute of the parliamentary session that sat in the 10th year of the reign of Queen Anne"). Regnal years are calculated from the official date (year, month and day) of a monarch's accession. As different monarchs begin their reigns at different times, the exact month and day when a regnal year begins varies across reigns. [edit]