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The Christian calendar, brimming with it's own saint's days, incorporated the festivals of the agricultural calendar (see quarter day);-

Candlemas Day marked the anniversary of the Purification of the Virgin Mary.

Easter, while retaining the name of a Norse goddess, celebrated Christ's resurrection.

Hallowe'en, not to be separated from the association of roving spirits of the dead, became All Saints' Day.

The Winter Soltice, indicator of new life the following year was made the special festival celebrating Christ himself.

The Julian calendar was adopted by most western European countries from the 6th century A.D., onwards.

Because the equinoctial year does not lend itself to simplification by virtue of it's 365.2422 days, the Julian calendar invoked a leap year of 366 days every 4th year.

Protestant England did not adoptedadopt the 'papal' calendar until 1752.

By the 16th century, the accumulated error had reached 10 days - what should have been April 2nd was April 12th, thus in 1582 Pope Gregory XIII introduced a revised calender which has since been known as the Gregorian Calendar.

By the 16th century, the accumulated error in the Julian Calendar's treatment of the equinoctial year had reached 10 days - what should have been April 2nd was April 12th, thus in 1582 Pope Gregory XIII introduced a revised calender which treated every 4th year as a leap year but excluded the last year of a century unless it was devisible by 400.

The simple country folk would not be deterred from the notion that they had been robbed of 11 days of their lives and there were many near-riots. Much of rural life was governed by the calendar and when human logic caused caused confusion, divine guidance was saught from the Glastonbury Thorn by great crowds at Christmas in 1752.

This calendar, which has since come to be known as the Gregorian Calendar, was adopted by Catholic Europe in 1582, most of the other European countries followed in 1583 excepting Protestant England which tarried and did not accept the new 'papal' calendar until 1752.

By 1752, the error had accumulated 11 days which were dropped from the calendar between September the 3rd and September 14th of that year.

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1582France, Italy, Portugal & Spain
1583(January 1st)
Flanders, the Catholic German States, Holland, Prussia & Switzerland
1586Poland
1587Hungary
1700Denmark, the Protestant German States, The Protestant Netherlands, Sweden (by the omission of 11 leap days between 1700 & 1740)
1752Great Britain and its Dominions
1872Japan
1912China
1915Bulgaria
1917Soviet Russsia & Turkey
1919Roumania & Yugoslavia
1923Greece & the Greek, Roumanian, Russian & Serbian Orthodox Churches

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The extant quarter days are those of the agricultural calendar:-

Lady DayMarch 25th
MidsummerJune 24th
MichealmasSeptember 29th
ChristmasDecember 25th

The old Celtic quarter days of the pastoral calendar are no longer in use:-

ImbolcFebruary 1st
BeltaneMay 1st
LugnasadAugust 1st
SamhainNovember 1st

In their modern guises of Candlemas, Whit Sunday, Lammas and Martinmas they are still the official Scottish Term Days.

The various festivals in the country were associated with tasks to be performed on the farm.

Ralph Whitlock, in his 'A Calendar of Country Customs' (1978), describes how one countryman informed him that Good Friday was `the day hardained by the Lord for plantin' tetties', while another maintained that the very best date for planting broad beans was November 5th, Bonfire Night.

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Warrants, dispensations, etc., issued by the United Grand Lodge of England bear two dates for example 1996 A.D., (Anno Domini) and 5996 Ano Lucis. This Year of Light is based on the biblical Book of Genesis 1:3, and the 4000 years difference is based on on Ussher's Notation, published in 1654 which placed the creation of the world in 4000 B.C.

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