Show i TWELVE DAYS UTTERLY LOST Short Shott Period in Which No Record rt ok American History Was Kept and the Reason Twelve days dars In the history of AmerIca Amer Amer- Ica lea are blank an au exchange remarks If It you ou should tr try to learn what bap Imp hap happened p In the period I between September Septem Septem- ber her 3 find and September 13 18 1732 you jou n will rind find no records for those dates dutes do not exist t. t Under the old st style le calendar September 2 2 1752 1751 fell on Wednesday The he next da day clay the Gregorian or newt new style t le calendar was as adopted h by Great Groat Britain anti and her hel American colonies anil and the date dote set forward to September 14 H. Up lip to this time the Julian lullau calendar tai had hod been followed b by the English English- speaking world AS reform reformed fed u by Julius Caesar In 4 40 It II n. C. C It Jt made the j year ear em consist of ot days R and six hours with nn an extra day added to February each fourth fO year cor to account for fOI the six bix hours This was the most accurate I calendar year jet yet devised de but It was 11 minutes and und 14 19 seconds longer than the true solar year eal of ot 3 i days lIas 5 hours houi s 48 minutes and 4 40 46 seconds amounting e to a n day In years Pope Gregory Gregor XIII corrected this about 1582 u by dropping ten du days s s 's from the calendar and ordaining that on the theone theone theone one hundredth year In three out of every four centuries the extra tiny clay for l leap p year eal should not be counted SIxteen Sixteen Six teen hundred bundled was a leap year ear and 2000 will be one but 1700 1800 and 1000 were not Even this calendar is 30 seconds too fast amounting to a year jear in years so when comes around it will have to be robbed of ot Its leap year ear day to correct this differ differ- ence The Gregorian calendar was adopted In tn Catholic countries Including 1 France Italy Spain and Portugal in 1582 and within u Il short time by the Germans Swiss and Hungarians but not until 1752 by England and her great grent colonial empire |