Compact History

Changing Calendars - The Switch to the Gregorian Calendar

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In the seventh episode of the 5 Minute History podcast, we take a brief look at the time when everyone thought that their lives had been made 11 days shorter when the Western world in 1752 switched from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar.

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