E: 23/10 Win a crate of Carling (True or False?)

grannybiker

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Britain lived by the Julian calendar until 1752. Under the Julian calendar New Year’s Day officially fell on 25 March. True or False? Guess right and you could win a crate of Carling.
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Googling done... It's looking like "True" this week. Pleased thank Kirkeastment below as well.

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kirkeastment

Quick search of the question lead to a wiki page

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Style_and_New_Style_dates

From the 12th century to 1752, the civil or legal year in England began on 25 March (Lady Day)

which said March 25th was the first day of the year, so t'would seem to eb true.

grannybiker

True from here too... http://www.cambridge.org/elt/ccc/pdfs/bookofdays-nyd.pdf

In England the New Year hasn’t always begun on
January 1st. Halloween was the Druids’ New Year’s Eve
festival, so what is now our November 1st would have
been their New Year. The Anglo Saxons then fixed the
beginning of the year to coincide approximately with
the sun’s rebirth on around December 25th. Then
most of Europe switched their New Year to the

beginning of spring. So, for many years, March 25th was New Year’s Day.

grannybiker

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Last week we asked you - Britain lived by the Julian calendar until 1752. Under the Julian calendar New Year’s Day officially fell on 25 March. It's True! 68% Guessed correctly!
Under this calendar, the first day of the year was March 25th (often known as Lady Day, Annunciation Day, or Feast of the Annunciation), and the last day of the year was March 24th.