Going dark here for a trip to Chicago. I wish everyone a great 2008 - SD
In the continuing series of holiday posts, I offer you this from Wikipedia:
Adoption of 1 January as New Year
* 1522 Venice
* 1544 Holy Roman Empire. The area covered included Germany, Austria and their future territories.
* 1556 Spain, Portugal, Roman Catholic (southern) Netherlands. This extended to all Spanish and Portuguese territories and outposts in the Americas and around the world.
* 1559 Prussia, Denmark, Sweden
* 1564 France. The dating applied to all subsequently acquired French territories.
* 1579 Lorraine
* 1583 Protestant (northern) Netherlands
* 1600 Scotland
* 1725 Russia, and its future territories.
* 1721 Tuscany
* 1752 Britain and its colonies. This included the east coast of what would become the United States and Canada. Also as each part of the world came within the sway of English law, the English style dates applied. Over time that would include large swathes of Africa, India, Malaysia, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand, etc.
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