Orthodox countries followed the Julian calendar even longer, and their national churches have still not adopted Pope Gregory XIII’s calendar. It took almost 200 years before England and the colonies switched over when an act of Parliament introduced the new calendar, advancing the date from September 2 to September 14, 1752.īenjamin Franklin famously wrote about the switch in his almanac: “And what an indulgence is here, for those who love their pillow to lie down in Peace on the second of this month and not perhaps awake till the morning of the fourteenth.” In Europe's Protestant countries, however, people feared that the new calendar was an attempt by the Catholic Church to silence their movement.
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