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History Daily - This Many Years Ago @thismanyyearsago.bsky.social · 13h

443 years ago, on the 15th of October 1582, the Gregorian calendar was first adopted causing many Catholic European countries to jump from the 4th to the 15th. The calendar was decreed by Pope Gregory XIII to regain a correct calculation of the date of Easter. #otd #history 🗃️

Lunario Novo, Secondo la Nuova Riforma della Correttione del l'Anno Riformato da N.S. Gregorio XIII, printed in Rome by Vincenzo Accolti in 1582, one of the first printed editions of the new calendar.

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History Daily - This Many Years Ago @thismanyyearsago.bsky.social · 13h

Ten Days That Vanished: The Switch to the Gregorian Calendar | Britannica

When it comes to calendars, small errors can add up over time.

www.britannica.com

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History Daily - This Many Years Ago @thismanyyearsago.bsky.social · 13h

As the pope only had authority over the Papal States and church institutions, the adoption required implementation by earthly rulers and came in waves. Now, the Gregorian calendar is used in most parts of the world.

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History Daily - This Many Years Ago @thismanyyearsago.bsky.social · 13h

443 years ago, on the 15th of October 1582, the Gregorian calendar was first adopted causing many Catholic European countries to jump from the 4th to the 15th. The calendar was decreed by Pope Gregory XIII to regain a correct calculation of the date of Easter. #otd #history 🗃️

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History Daily - This Many Years Ago @thismanyyearsago.bsky.social · 1d

959 years ago, on the 14th of October 1066, the Battle of Hastings took place. Harold Godwinson (king of England for 282 days) died in the battle that would turn William from Bastard to Conqueror. Battle Abbey's high altar is said to be in the exact location of Harold II's death. #otd #history 🗃️

Detail of the Bayeux Tapestry depicting an English soldier in combat with Norman cavalry during the Battle of Hastings, wool on linen, 11th-century; in the Bayeux Tapestry Museum, France.
Giraudon/Art Resource, New York

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History Daily - This Many Years Ago @thismanyyearsago.bsky.social · 1d

Well, yes but also no.

History Daily - This Many Years Ago @thismanyyearsago.bsky.social · 1d

I tried finding a source for this. Do you know where this came from?

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History Daily - This Many Years Ago @thismanyyearsago.bsky.social · 1d

@marcmorris.bsky.social Playmobil recreation of the Bayeux Tapestry Battle scene.

Marc Morris @marcmorris.bsky.social · 1d

Today's the 959th anniversary of the Battle of Hastings, so obviously I'm reposting my scenes from the Bayeux Tapestry in Playmobil.

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History Daily - This Many Years Ago @thismanyyearsago.bsky.social · 1d

@todaysimpsons.bsky.social's post today is on the same topic.

Today in Simpsons Screenshots @todaysimpsons.bsky.social · 1d

~ October 14 ~
1066: The Battle of Hastings: William, Duke of Normandy and his Norman army defeat Harold II and his English forces.

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History Daily - This Many Years Ago @thismanyyearsago.bsky.social · 1d

The Bayeux Tapestry online (in case you don’t have a copy at home), battle from scene 51 onwards: www.bayeuxmuseum.com/en/the-bayeu...

Explore the Bayeux Tapestry online - Bayeux Museum

For the first time, you will be able to freely explore the entire Bayeux Tapestry scene by scene with a never seen quality of images !

www.bayeuxmuseum.com

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History Daily - This Many Years Ago @thismanyyearsago.bsky.social · 1d

English Heritage website on the battle: www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places...

What Happened at the Battle of Hastings

Find out what happened at the most famous battle in English history.

www.english-heritage.org.uk

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History Daily - This Many Years Ago @thismanyyearsago.bsky.social · 1d

Many words were imported into English by the French-speaking new elite. The association with class can still be seen. Shoemakers and bakers are Anglo-Saxon in origin while tailors and merchants are French. Farm animals are mostly Anglo-Saxon while their meats are often French. shorturl.at/YkwIw

Change in Language — Never Such Innocence

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History Daily - This Many Years Ago @thismanyyearsago.bsky.social · 1d

959 years ago, on the 14th of October 1066, the Battle of Hastings took place. Harold Godwinson (king of England for 282 days) died in the battle that would turn William from Bastard to Conqueror. Battle Abbey's high altar is said to be in the exact location of Harold II's death. #otd #history 🗃️

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History Daily - This Many Years Ago @thismanyyearsago.bsky.social · 2d

I don't understand what you're trying to say here. Superstition concerning the number 13 and concerning Friday the 13th are 2 distinct things neither of which we know the origin of, only theories. It could be that they're related. It could be that they're not.

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History Daily - This Many Years Ago @thismanyyearsago.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you for the extra context. This is why is very carefully worded it as on of the possible origins.

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History Daily - This Many Years Ago @thismanyyearsago.bsky.social · 2d

That's just the number 13. The last supper (if I remember correctly) is the night before good Friday and thus a Thursday the thirteenth.

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History Daily - This Many Years Ago @thismanyyearsago.bsky.social · 2d

The end of the Knights Templar began at dawn on Friday, October 13, 1307. On Friday the 13th (and this is the reason the day is said to be unlucky, or so I understand), Philip of France arrested all o...

(for previous discussion on the origin of the Templar Order see: https://sarahwoodbury.com/the-knights-templar/

www.sarahwoodbury.com

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History Daily - This Many Years Ago @thismanyyearsago.bsky.social · 2d

Philips IV was deeply in debt to the Templars after his war against England. He managed to influence the newly elected French pope to order the arrest of Templars throughout Europe leading to the dissolution of the order in 1312. The Templar’s fortune mostly ended up in the hands of secular rulers.

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History Daily - This Many Years Ago @thismanyyearsago.bsky.social · 2d

718 years ago, on the 13th of October 1307, King Philip IV of France had hundreds of Knights Templar arrested on charges of heresy, to which most later confessed under torture. This event is one of the possible origins for the Friday the 13th superstition. #otd #history 🗃️

Templars being burned at the stake, illustration from an anonymous German chronicle, Von der Schöpfung der Welt bis 1384

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History Daily - This Many Years Ago @thismanyyearsago.bsky.social · 3d

The Parachute Descent of Jeanne Garnerin

Glorious Georgian dispatches from the long 18th century...

www.madamegilflurt.com

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History Daily - This Many Years Ago @thismanyyearsago.bsky.social · 3d

After Jacques Garnerin’s death, Jeanne opened a table d’hôte with French war hero Marie-Thérèse Figueur, a veteran of both the Frenc Revolutionary and the Napoleonic Wars.

Thérèse Figueur, dite "Mme Sans-Gêne", (1774-1861) dragon dans les armées de la République et de l'Empire

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History Daily - This Many Years Ago @thismanyyearsago.bsky.social · 3d

226 years ago, on the 12th of October 1799, Jeanne Geneviève Garnerin (née Labrosse) was the first woman to parachute. She was an apprentice (and later wife) of pioneer balloonist Jacques Garnerin. She first ascended to an altidude of 900 metres in a gondala attached to a balloon. #otd #history🗃️

Monsieur and Madame Garnerin (Christoph Haller von Hallerstein [de], c. 1803)

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History Daily - This Many Years Ago @thismanyyearsago.bsky.social · 4d

What do you mean?

History Daily - This Many Years Ago @thismanyyearsago.bsky.social · 4d

Already corrected by @nocturnaldruid.bsky.social
Bluesky does not have an edit option (yet).

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History Daily - This Many Years Ago @thismanyyearsago.bsky.social · 4d

You're right. Loads of Johns. He died before the council was completed, handing it over to pope Paul VI.

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