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Date: Friday, 5 January 2007 17:04 (UTC)As you may know, the Julian calendar (which was previously used there) had a leap year every fourth year, regardless of whether the year is divisible by 100 or 400 or not, and that's slightly too often -- so the calendar slowly got out of sync with the seasons as the centuries went by.
To correct that, Spain dropped ten days from the calendar when switching, and Thursday, 4 October 1582 (Julian), was followed by Friday, 15 October 1582 (Gregorian).
(England had to drop eleven days, since they didn't switch until 1752, meaning that there had been another leap year too many: 1700. (1600 would have been a leap year under the Gregorian calendar, too.) They went from Wednesday, 2 September 1752 to Thursday, 14 September 1752.)
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