That's an excellent summary of how the modern calendar came about. Supposedly when Pope Gregory Xlll cut the 11 days from September, 1752, there were a lot of very unhappy people (even reports of riots) for various reasons that ranged from accusations it was part of Catholic plot, to landlords shortchanging tenants all the way to people thinking their lives were being shortened!
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Thankyou for reading this Terry. You are absolutely right. Pope removed 10 days in the 1500s. When Britain finally adopted it in the 1700s, much time had passed and they had to deduct one more day making it 11. And yes as you said, some parts did not adopt it simultaneously. It was chaos.
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