Gregorian or New Style. M HEN the New Style of writing dates, introduced by Pope Gregory XIII., was first adopted [A.D. 1582], days and dates written according to the New Style were made to be ten days in advance of Old Style days and dates written according to the Chriftian era, introduced by Dionyfius Exiguus, 1285 A. U. c. 532 A. D., and in certain hundredth years following the year 1582, one day more increased the amount of days in advance, viz, on the Ift of March (New Style) in each hundredth year which was not a fourth hundredth, in confequence of the 29th of February being unwritten in fuch hundredth years, according to the New Style, thus: New Style = 10 days in advance of Old Style. Letter Letter 1752 (Sept. 14), day and date in Foreign Countries (except Ruffia, Greece, and in the East,) corresponded with day and date On Mon.the 19th Feb. 1699-1700, O. S. . G F until and Friday, the 17th Feb. 1800, O. S.. AG in England. From Friday, 15 Oct. 1582, to Sunday, 28 Feb. 1700. Gregorian or New Style. When dates according to the common Chriftian era will be found to be 10 days in advance of the Old Style of Dionyfius. |