December 27, 2016 at 5:45 p.m.
The calendar has never been simple
Letters to the Editor
To the editor:
New Year’s Day is approaching our doorstep but the annals of history reveal Jan. 1 has not been perpetually established as such. A high degree of continuous bickering emerged involving time consumption bordering on eternal.
Until 1582, New Year’s Day is Europe was March 25. Thus, the next day after March 24, 1581, became March 25, 1582. The following year New Year’s Day for most of Europe was changed to Jan. 1, but England and her possessions along with her American colonies refused to comply until 170 years later. During this extended period, much of Europe ridiculed the English, who continued their week-long celebration ending April 1, branding them a bunch of fools.
From a calendar approach, 1752 was a short year for England and her possessions as King George II decreed the year beginning March 25 would terminate Dec. 31. Exercising additional royal authority, he declared the day following Sept. 2 as Sept. 13, updating the calendar to comply with the earth’s proper seasonal phase. This lagging was detected in the seventh century by the Venerable Bede, but was ignored for 1,000 years. The citizens, not well educated, rioted, thinking the King had shortened their lives by 71 days; the number eliminated from 1752. (George Washington’s actual Feb. 11, 1732, birthday is now recognized as Feb. 22.)
Looking ahead in regard to the cosmos regulating man’s conduct, a rider to the above theme is certainly within the realm of subject thus far expressed.
Easter is recognized on fluid dates, not absolute like New Year’s, but appears to the less informed as a product of historical tampering. Between May 20 and June 19, 325 A.D., bishops gathered in Nicaea, Turkey, and after much intense and lofty dialog solidified its criteria for precedence. East would be recognized on the first Sunday following the first full moon that appears on or after March 21, thus appearing between March 22 and April 25. These established dates generated an intriguing twist that few beyond well-learned religious scholars understand.
An example: Easter came on March 22, 1818, and will reappear on that date in 2285. Nearly 1,700 years have passed since rules so governing were instituted. Their longevity remains intact and free of additional grooming and void of contamination.
History reveals our tendency to view Indians without privilege concerning their lack of mathematical comprehension resulting in time measured by so many moons. We certainly are not immune from lunar influence.
Respectfully,
Roy Leverich
Portland
New Year’s Day is approaching our doorstep but the annals of history reveal Jan. 1 has not been perpetually established as such. A high degree of continuous bickering emerged involving time consumption bordering on eternal.
Until 1582, New Year’s Day is Europe was March 25. Thus, the next day after March 24, 1581, became March 25, 1582. The following year New Year’s Day for most of Europe was changed to Jan. 1, but England and her possessions along with her American colonies refused to comply until 170 years later. During this extended period, much of Europe ridiculed the English, who continued their week-long celebration ending April 1, branding them a bunch of fools.
From a calendar approach, 1752 was a short year for England and her possessions as King George II decreed the year beginning March 25 would terminate Dec. 31. Exercising additional royal authority, he declared the day following Sept. 2 as Sept. 13, updating the calendar to comply with the earth’s proper seasonal phase. This lagging was detected in the seventh century by the Venerable Bede, but was ignored for 1,000 years. The citizens, not well educated, rioted, thinking the King had shortened their lives by 71 days; the number eliminated from 1752. (George Washington’s actual Feb. 11, 1732, birthday is now recognized as Feb. 22.)
Looking ahead in regard to the cosmos regulating man’s conduct, a rider to the above theme is certainly within the realm of subject thus far expressed.
Easter is recognized on fluid dates, not absolute like New Year’s, but appears to the less informed as a product of historical tampering. Between May 20 and June 19, 325 A.D., bishops gathered in Nicaea, Turkey, and after much intense and lofty dialog solidified its criteria for precedence. East would be recognized on the first Sunday following the first full moon that appears on or after March 21, thus appearing between March 22 and April 25. These established dates generated an intriguing twist that few beyond well-learned religious scholars understand.
An example: Easter came on March 22, 1818, and will reappear on that date in 2285. Nearly 1,700 years have passed since rules so governing were instituted. Their longevity remains intact and free of additional grooming and void of contamination.
History reveals our tendency to view Indians without privilege concerning their lack of mathematical comprehension resulting in time measured by so many moons. We certainly are not immune from lunar influence.
Respectfully,
Roy Leverich
Portland
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