How Did Great Britain and the American Colonists Lose 12 Days in 1752?

How Did Great Britain and the American Colonists Lose 12 Days in 1752?

by Michelle Carr-Crowe, Silicon Valley guide and Cupertino real estate agent selling homes in San Jose

While keeping track of time may seem simple, people had to make some hard decisions to coordinate calendars and time several hundred years ago.

Known as Calendar Adjustment Day, today marks the 260th anniversary of the event.

To make things more complicated, most European countries adjusted their calendars 170 years earlier back in 1582. The change was needed to coordinate current calendars to match the Gregorian calendar.

Great Britain and its colonies, including the American ones, didn't make the move until 1752.

Great Britain and all of its colonies, iincluding the Americas, finally jumped 12 days in 1752. What would have been September 3, 1752 instead become September 14, 1752.

Calendar Adjustment Day is one of those odd facts.