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Swedish Calendar 1700-1712

In 1699, effective 1700, Sweden and its colonies decided to make a gradual switchover from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar, rather than to adopt the Gregorian calendar immediately, by slowly speeding up the pacing of the calendar for 40 years.

Their method? To skip the next 11 leap year days on years divisible by four (no leap year days through 1740). On Feb 29, 1700, Julian-1 calendar it was Mar 1, 1700 Julian-Sweden-1 calendar. On that day, it was one day ahead of the Julian-1 calendar, and 10, instead of 11, days behind the Gregorian calendar. To further confuse matters, also in use is the Julian-3-25- calendar, which matches the Julian-1's dates, but its yearly Number Change Day wasn't on January 1st, but on March 25th.

The plan for Sweden was to shorten the day gap between the calendar they were using and the Gregorian calendar they wanted to use in 1741. by coming one day closer every fourth March 1st in years divisible by four until the use of a leap year resumes with the calendar of 1741.

This change further added confusion between countries on what day it was for commerce and trade. As you can see from the chart below between the four calendars in use by various European countries, it was calendar anarchy in the U.K., Europe, the Meditteranean and elsewhere!

Gregorian	Julian-1	Julian-3-25-	Julian-Sweden-1
Mar 12, 1712	Mar 01, 1712	Mar 01, 1711	Mar 01, 1712
Mar 11, 1712	Feb 29, 1712	Feb 29, 1711	Feb 30, 1712
Mar 10, 1712	Feb 28, 1712	Feb 28, 1711	Feb 29, 1712
Mar 09, 1712	Feb 27, 1712	Feb 27, 1711	Feb 28, 1712
Mar 12, 1708	Mar 01, 1708	Mar 01, 1707	Mar 02, 1708
Mar 11, 1708	Feb 29, 1708	Feb 29, 1707	Mar 01, 1708
Mar 10, 1708	Feb 28, 1708	Feb 28, 1707	Feb 29, 1708
Mar 09, 1708	Feb 27, 1708	Feb 27, 1707	Feb 28, 1708
Mar 12, 1704	Mar 01, 1704	Mar 01, 1703	Mar 02, 1704
Mar 11, 1704	Feb 29, 1704	Feb 29, 1703	Mar 01, 1704
Mar 10, 1704	Feb 28, 1704	Feb 28, 1703	Feb 29, 1704
Mar 09, 1704	Feb 27, 1704	Feb 27, 1703	Feb 28, 1704
Apr 07, 1700	Mar 27, 1700	Mar 27, 1700	Mar 28, 1700
Apr 06, 1700	Mar 26, 1700	Mar 26, 1700	Mar 27, 1700
Apr 05, 1700	Mar 25, 1700	Mar 25, 1700	Mar 26, 1700
Apr 04, 1700	Mar 24, 1700	Mar 24, 1699	Mar 25, 1700
Mar 12, 1700	Mar 01, 1700	Mar 01, 1699	Mar 02, 1700
Mar 11, 1700	Feb 29, 1700	Feb 29, 1699	Mar 01, 1700
			Feb 29, 1700 skipped
Mar 10, 1700	Feb 28, 1700	Feb 28, 1699	Feb 28, 1700
Mar 01, 1700	Feb 19, 1700	Feb 19, 1699	Feb 19, 1700
Feb 29, 1700 skipped
Feb 28, 1700	Feb 18, 1700	Feb 18, 1699	Feb 18, 1700

Who knew which countries were using what calendars? Total confusion. You have the Julian-Sweden calendar being used in only one country. It was clearly obvious it wasn't going to work.

Furthermore, the Great Northern War made the people in charge of the Julian-Sweden calendar forget to skip omitting the Feb 29, 1704 and Feb 29, 1708 leap year days, making the calendar stuck one day ahead of the Julian-1 calendar.

In January 1711, King Charles XII issued a command that Sweden would retreat from using the altered calendar, and return to using the Julian-1 calendar on March 1, 1712. To achieve lining up the dates with the two calendars, a second extra day was added to February of 1712, the day after the 29th modestly called February 30, 1712. This made the calendar 367 days long just for that year. As you can see at the top of the above chart, this is how the dates lined up after February 30, 1712, Julian-Sweden calendar date.

In the year 1753, a year after England and its colonies, Sweden adopted the Gregorian calendar. February 17 being followed by March 1, the transition was complete.

The Julian-Sweden Calendar (used in Sweden 1700-1712)

1. Calendar format: Julian
2. Intercalary format: no leap year day on Feb 29, 1700, extra leap year day on Feb 30, 1712, regular Feb 29 leap year days since 1704
3. era: Christian (1 A.D.) though scholars state Jesus Christ was born between 4 B.C. and 6 B.C.
4. Number Change Day: January 1
5. Days of the month format: counting up from 1 until the end of the month is reached.
6. No Year Zero

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