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From: "Laura A. Wallace" <>
Subject: Re: TMG-L: verifying a date 1665/66 or 1666/67
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 15:37:29 -0600


On 1 Mar 00, at 13:17, CWJOHNSON wrote:

> The book "Cradled in Sweden", which I refer to constantly in my
> Swedish research, has a table of Sundays and church feast days from
> 1650 thru 1845. According to this, Jan 19, 1667 was a Saturday.

Okay, all of this fuss had finally sent me to the shelf to consult the
Royal Historical Society's _Handbook of Dates for Students of
English History_ (Cambridge University Press, 1945-95, ISBN 0
521 55151X).

According to this book, which always counts the New Year to
begin Jan 1st (which it calls the "historical year"),

19 Jan 1666 Old Style (i.e., Julian) was a Thursday,
19 Jan 1666 O.S. was a Friday, and
19 Jan 1667 O.S. was a Saturday.

In a separate reckoning, converting/projecting New Style (i.e.,
Gregorian) dating back before 1752 (i.e., subrtracting 11 days):

19 Jan 1665 N.S. was a Monday,
19 Jan 1666 N.S. was a Tuesday,
19 Jan 1667 N.S. was a Wednesday.

Adding the 11 days back in:

30 Jan 1665 N.S. was a Friday,
30 Jan 1666 N.S. was a Saturday, and
30 Jan 1667 N.S. was a Sunday.

So I think the date you want is Julian/Old Style date 19 January
1667, which would be correctly written to reflect the New Year of
March 25th as 19 January 1666/67. By the Gregorian/New Style
calendar (projected backwards), the date is 30 Jan 1667.

Laura Wallace, in Sour Lake, Texas |
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