Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1850-01-21
NEW STYLE



perpleSing the public mind, it NAV not he nra "
cepiable TO many Of our readers 10 learn sa'''e
th'ng oil the manner in which the new s,vI. n's.
adopted IN England, near hundred wears ,ca
we ma The following succinct explanation o;,s.'
IN note TO Hening's Statutes at Law, vol :,
1893: WI p.
HE 10Th day If March the beginning of Tho ,o.-
according 10 the Jewish eompualin and the same ,''
was ob>erved in England I'LL by stat %. Geo. ., u'e
%: sec l. Q75D it was declared that after la, zap
"i December. l75l. the 25th Of March should M ty
ger be accounted the beginning Of The year. bu, thu ,
year If52 should begin the first day Of Janu,,r ~,
So IN each sncc' edng year. the first day Of J,,n,.
should be deemed the first day Of The year This STAT,
was rendered necessary BY The adoption in Ennl.nl
the reformed calender Of Pope GREGoRy XIII ,.,' VI
the year 1879 from which period commenced In. 1 -"
nan calender. or New Style Tie calender adins,ads
julius Cesar. As years before Christ was c,llaJ ny
Julian Calendar or Old Style as con,radis,aa; 'ns
IRON the new Most # the naIions of Europe had NAVY"
ed the Gregorlan Calendar or New STYLE kng lI hA
The tngsh VII" being engaged in extensive conms,. M
oned II c'nvenleni, for the sake Of Eregn
dence, 10 preserve both the Old and The New Si'
b'tween the Isl of Januaiy and The 2Jlh of Mar, o.
each year Accordingly in most of the date, pr,, =, ~,
l|o2, (when the New y yle commenced in F,nnIJ
we see the old year continued TIL The 25lh If NJ
with The new year annexed 10 it from the Isl If J'
1851 3 March, 1923 4, SC, But This was MI nna,,ay'
y done. ''o''h-
30 much OF The act of parliament of 24h Gen o :,
80 as relates 10 the establishment of The New Si ~"
~ The following w0rds-"Thnughoui all his ,5o,
dom'nlons in Europe. Asia. Africa and America sub
10 me Gro" Of Great Britain the snpputa lion ,co
t., which the year If our Lord besinneh on the 25
''arch shall not be made Of after The last doy
cember. lI5l aud the first day of January nexi Cl,
ing The said last day Of December shall be daeua =,
as uay "l me year 81 our Lord 1902, and SO on tho
nrs' DAY oi annaty in every year stall b., deemed h
nfst dy Of the year And after the said first dav IF I
uafy' l|oZ lie days OF each month shall he reclaimed IN
'e same order and the feast of Easter and other nvo
aoie ieas's thereon depending, be ascer;anel accnrd
u the same method, they are un,il tho saoi
F" september IN the laid year 1852 inclusive and Tho
natural day next immediately wing the said s.cnd
" oPember Shall be called The l1h of Sepsmher
o'hg i"r that time only the eleven nermedia,e nom
n uays ol Tue connon calendar and the patual DAYS
following The said l4th Of September shall be Numbered
forwards IN numerical order from the said IAN If Son
enher, according TO The order used in the re.ot
calender and all acts deeds wr iuos notes and ,ba'
ihs rumens tXecnted or signed upon or after the fret
day OF January 1852, shall bear date according io,h
SAID tie" method of suppniaon, Sc" The section then
goes on TO provide for the of courts &c accor
ding 10 the method
With respect to Leap Years the 81 sectinn dec,,es
''Iha the years 1900, 1900, 2lO0 22O0, $500 ar any,
oher hnndredth year OF our Lord. except only every
lourlh hundredth year. whereof The year 2OOO shall hs
the hrs shall not be Bessexe or Lean Years I'm, shall.
be connon years, consisting of 365 DAYS and no more
and the years of our ord 2000 24OO $500 and every
other fourth hundredth year OF Lord from the wear
2o)0 inclusive, and all other years of our Lord which
ny Tie present suppuiaon Bissexe or Lean Years
shall be Bessexte, OF Leap Years consisting of 366
days" wv
ne reason which induced The passing Of the above
reciled act Of parliament, and the difference BET cen the
Julian \ Gregoran calendars, are well explained by a
writer neatly colemporay with the act itself Patun
IN his Elements Of Chronology, (insercd in his treatise
on navigaon) pa. III, says. that Julius Cesar in or
der TO reduce the civil political year nearly to m equal.
NY win the tropical and considering that the tropical
years consisted OF 500 days aud hours nearly which
the civil year by hours each year and conse
qnenlly IN four years exceeded it BY one wImIe day or
Hered mat oeveTy fourth year there should be one day
added, and So make ii consist If SOC Jaws by which
means The civil ard solar years Were reduced pretty near
to an equality This additional day was mt in The
month of February and because ia the common wear The
twenty fourth day of February was called by the Ro
mans The SIKH OF the kaens Of March, he ordered ha,
ms day should be add after the twenty fourth day of
reofuary and called by the same there happen
ing every fourth year, two SIKH, of The Kalends of
Maren, an hence that year was called Bi,se,ue or
Leap year This way was used hy us ill the wear 1852
when the New Style comnencedn
But the true leng h off year being 365 DAYS. 5
hours and AZ minutes, and 10y the Julian accuun, 365
days and hours, lis plain Tue civil year exceeds The
soai ny II minutes nearly. Consequently If the sun
any year enters the eqninocal the both day of March
al noon The next year he will enter The psunoctal the
SAINT udy IL minutes b lore noon the % mDups
bel Re noon, and 50 Consequently 10 1871 wears the
solar VIII anticipate the civil year by one whole day
aud so either eqnInx will moi happen always on the
same day If the civil year but be carried in a re,r,
grade order through all The days of it, This was what
put Pope Gregory Kill upon reforming the JaIian cal
endar-ior, finding that the TIM of the Nre1 c,un.
eli, when the time OF celebrating Easter was instituted
ihe verna equinox happened the 2lst day Of March
aud by flowing continually backwards it happened at
his time (n the year 1922 on the lh day Of March.
anticipating lis former time by 10 whole days he ordered
maj these ten daI should be taken uui If the calendar
and the ih OF March should be recuned the 2stand
10 prevent the seasons OF the year from ing any more
oach"ardS, as they were teore he ordered that every
hundred year of The Christian era (Which according to
the Julian calendar is Bessexe) should he a common
year and 50 consist only of $50 days but this being TOO
much, every tour hundredIh year remain B<spx-
tile "r Leap iear.-Bui since his time to the year 1852
one day more has been anticipated which was ~ reason
that days Were ordered to BIZ taken on of the caeSr
IN the month of September. 1852 when the New Silvia
commenced IN these kingdoms TheJuian form is call
ed oId Style and the GresoIan, New Style"
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