- Swedish calendar
The Swedish Calendar in use from
March 1 ,1700 untilFebruary 30 ,1712 was one day ahead of theJulian calendar and ten days behind theGregorian calendar .In November
1699 it was decided thatSweden would begin to adopt the New Style, orGregorian calendar , starting in 1700. The plan was to skip all leap days in the period 1700 to 1740, thus gradually approaching the Gregorian Calendar over 40 years. According to planFebruary 29 was omitted in 1700, but no further reductions were made in the following years. In January1711 , King Charles XII declared that Sweden would abandon the calendar, which wasn't in use by any other nation nor had achieved its objective, in favour of a return to theOld Style . An extra day was added to February in the leap year of 1712, thus giving it a unique 30 day length.In
1753 Sweden introduced the New Style, whereby the leap of 11 days was accomplished withFebruary 17 being followed byMarch 1 . Despite this, Sweden did not accept the Gregorian rules for determiningEaster until1844 ; from 1753 until then, Sweden observed Easter on the Sunday after the first astronomicalfull moon after the truevernal equinox .See also
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Leap year
*Holidays in Sweden
*Flag days in Sweden
*Name days in Sweden
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