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Definition of Old Style calendar
1. Noun. The solar calendar introduced in Rome in 46 b.c. by Julius Caesar and slightly modified by Augustus, establishing the 12-month year of 365 days with each 4th year having 366 days and the months having 31 or 30 days except for February.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Old Style Calendar
Literary usage of Old Style calendar
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Moravians in Georgia, 1735-1740 by Adelaide Lisetta Fries (1905)
"... difference of eleven days in the dates is only apparent, not real, for the
Englishmen used th'e old style calendar, the Germans employed the modern one. ..."
2. Bulletin of the Philosophical Society of Washington by Philosophical Society of Washington (1881)
"... 054— 31 = )23 The Julian or Old Style calendar was established by the Council
of Nice AD 325 ; the first year of the Gregorian or reformed calendar was ..."
3. The History of Fairfield, Fairfield County, Connecticut, from the Settlement by Elizabeth Hubbell Godfrey Schenck (1904)
"Julian or Old Style calendar, then in use, had been corrected by Pope Gregory XIII.
in 1582, and was called the Gregorian calendar or New Style, ..."
4. The Lancaster Family: A History of Thomas and Phebe Lancaster, of Bucks by Harry Fred Lancaster (1902)
"... or "New Style," instead of the Julian, or "Old Style" calendar, and canceling
the then existing excess of eleven days by making the third of September, ..."
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