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Subject: Re:  Tropics
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Date: Fri, 2-Aug-85 13:22:31 EDT
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From: jrv@Mitre-Bedford

>         Incidentally, the world shifted to the Gregorian calendar at varying
> times.  The Roman Catholic world did it first, in the 16th Century -- but
> that was after the Schism, and so England didn't follow suit.  For 200 years
> England's calendar trailed the European by first 9, then 10, then 11 days.
> England finally converted in the mid-18th Century, to riots (11 days were
> dropped from the calendar at the stroke of a pen)...

I believe the reason for the riots was that people were forced to pay a whole
month's rent for the short month.

				       - Jim Van Zandt