New Years Day and Tax Day (History rewritten)

Do you know why 6th April is Tax day?  When did the New Year actually start, 25th of March or 1st of January?  And was Christmas Day more than just a pagan/christian festival celebration, as it also coincidentally marked the start of the last Quarter of the Year?

Did you know you can celebrate the Feast of Easter celebration again next month, as the Catholic one based on the Gregorian Calendar is over - but the Orthodox Easter based on the Julian Calendar is still to happen!


History rewritten - dates are not all what you think they are…

Here's an interesting article I found about Calendars being 'reformed' in 1752.  This also means that any dates before 1752 are not linear, so the dates and times may not be correct. - but luckily we're moving forwards so it shouldn't be a problem if you were born after 1752!

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Calendar Reform in England, 1752

In September 1752, Great Britain switched from the Julian Calendar to the Gregorian Calendar. In order to achieve the change, 11 days were 'omitted' from the calendar - i.e. the day after 2 September 1752 was 14 September 1752.
This change was as a result of an Act of Parliament - the "Calendar Act" of 1751 An Act for Regulating the Commencement of the Year; and for Correcting the Calendar now in Use.

What isn't so widely known is a second change which the Act introduced - as named in the first part of the Act's title. The Act changed the first day of the year (or, if you want to impress your friends with a new word, the Supputation of the Year).

Prior to 1752 in England, the year began on 25 March (Lady Day). Lady Day is one of the Quarter Days, which are still used in legal circles. The Quarter Days divide the year in quarters (hence the name), and the Quarter Days are: Lady Day (25 March), Midsummers Day (24 June), Michaelmas Day (29 September), and Christmas Day (25 December).

So, in England, the day after 24 March 1642 was 25 March 1643. The Act changed this, so that the day after 31 December 1751 was 1 January 1752. As a consequence, 1751 was a short year - it ran only from 25 March to 31 December. To throw some more confusion on the issue, Scotland had changed the first day of the year to 1 January in 1600 (in 1600, Scotland was a separate kingdom). When King James VI of Scotland became also King James I of England in 1603, the possibilities of date confusion must have been very large.

Historians have to be on their toes with dates prior to 1752. For example, in The Tower of London there is some graffiti scratched into a cell wall by someone imprisoned in January 1642 for his role in the Battle of Edgehill (which took place on 23 October 1642).


The UK Tax Year starts on...

Lady Day was one of the days when rents were traditionally due. In fact, this practice must have continued will beyond the 18th century as I've seen paintings of large meals for farm workers on Lady Day. Taxes were also due on Lady Day. With the 'loss' of 11 days in September 1752 and the stories of riots on the street, people weren't impressed with having to pay their taxes in March 1753 like nothing had happened (in fact, as 25 March 1753 was a Sunday the taxes were due on Monday 26 March 1753 ) - so the taxman skipped the 11 days and decreed that taxes were due on 6 April 1753. And, to this day, the UK tax year starts on 6 April.

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Read the full article here: Calendar Reform 1752
Calendar Act: British Calendar Act of 1750
Time and date Calendar: Calendar for 1752

For conspiracy buffs, those who like to think rather than be told, David Icke has a section on history rewritten here: History Rewritten

Happy New Year - Your Time is what You Make It!

As midnight struck last night, people rung in the New Year with hopes of a brighter future.  Having waited for 2011 to pass and 2012 to finally arrive.  The tribal partying and celebrating shows the roots of mankind.

Yet it is just another day. Not to make New Year mean any less but to allow you to understand that every single day that the sun rises is the start of a New Day for you.  You didn't have to wait to make resolutions and changes in your life - but if you have chosen to do that for New Year, then stick with them , as you may not allow yourself the opportunity to change every day, which you can choose to do whenever you want.

Cultures used to thank the past day for what it had brought and celebrate the awakening of each day with the same optimism of a brighter future.  It may not have been at midnight but more likely as the sun came up (they didn't even have backlit Casio watches back then to tell the exact time, how did they survive!?)


As the wave of the 'sun rise' travels around the world, as opposed to thinking of the world spinning on it's axis as it really does, a wave of people wake up to the start of the New Year based on The Gregorian Calendar (invented in 1582 by Pope Gregory XIII). This Catholic Calendar was adopted by most of Europe that year and in 1752 by Great Britain and it's possessions.

As the whole World wakes up the New Year on Sunday 1st January 2012, the wave having passed all the way round by Sunday 11am, it is already Monday 2nd Jan 2012 in Samoa who chose to jump ahead a day because the Calendar didn't suit them. New Year’s Day came early in Samoa after the tiny South Pacific nation cut Friday, December 30, from its 2011 calendar so it can catch up with Asia, New Zealand and Australia instead of lagging behind with the USA.
http://www.timeanddate.com
http://www.firstpost.com


Our planet does not pay attention to the Calendar, it actually dictates it. Seasons drift, days change and it probably annoys those that like control (yes the whole World does not always revolve around you).
Although there are no loose or spare parts in any system, as Hugo Cabret said:
"I'd imagine the whole world was one big machine. Machines never come with any extra parts, you know. They always come with the exact amount they need. So I figured, if the entire world was one big machine, I couldn't be an extra part. I had to be here for some reason." Hugo


Days, weeks, months and years aren't lost - just added to your life and experience, then returned to the universal pot that everyone shares.
Your life, your calendar, starts the day that you are born and you can choose how long you measure your time periods in.  Measure it the way that it suits you and do things in the time that is needed to accomplish your goals. The only 'race' is with yourself and it's not even a race, just the gentle passing of now, through change and to where you will be later.


Make the best of YOUR time and you can choose to do everything better this year, starting Today. Enjoy 2012 and make it what you want it to be… your new creation starts now!

All the Best and more for your present in the future.


"Remember time is finite when measured and infinite when it is not." - Bobby Gill

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