Scotland History: Difference between revisions

In 1600 Scotland adopted January 1 as New Years Day, however the the Gregorian calendar was not used until 1752<ref name="1750Act">[http://www.statutelaw.gov.uk/content.aspx?activeTextDocId=1516754 Calendar (New Style) Act 1750], United Kingdom Parliament</ref>. The Julian calendar began the calendar year on 25 March and ended the year on 24 March. The Gregorian calendar started the year on 1 January and ended the year on 31 December. Thus, before 1600, January, February, and the first twenty-four days of March came at the end of the previous year instead of at the beginning of the next year. <ref name="Spathaky" />

When Catholic Europe adopted the Gregorian calendar in 1582, ten days were dropped from the month of October.&nbsp; Although Scotland adopted January 1 as New Years Day it did not adopt the Gregorian calendar so it remained 10 days out of sinc&nbsp;with much of&nbsp;Europe, as evidenced by legal records.&nbsp;&nbsp;By the time&nbsp;Scotland and the rest of Britain adopted the Gregorian calendar in 1752, a total of eleven days had to dropped.<ref>http://www.scan.org.uk/knowledgebase/topics/daysanddates_topic.htm</ref>

The year 1599 consisted only of nine months: January, February, and March (1-24) 1599 became January, February and March (1-24) 1600.