All the TikTok users have gone crazy after discovering there are a few missing days from the calendar in 1582 October, know its story, missing days and history
All types of conspiracy theories are flooding on the TikTok app with people stating, there was a glitch in the matrix, time stopped or the universe ended for a little while. They are referring to October 1582 calendar here.
Explained What Happened To The Calendar In October 1582 And Missing Days As Story History Goes Viral On TikTok
10 Missing Days In October 1582 Calendar
This week, people on the TikTok platform started scrolling through their iPhone calendar all the way back to 1582. Yes, you can go back that far and you will be seeing something pretty creepy.
People have also discovered that 10 days are missing from the month of October in 1582, meaning there were just 21 days rather than the usual 31 days in the month. The month has October 1, 2, 3 and 4 as normal, then the calendar strangely skips to October 15 and itโs not an iPhone glitch as several first thought.
There really were only 21 days in October of 1582 and itโs all because of the switch to the new Gregorian calendar made in that year.
What Happened In 1582 October?
Donโt worry, there is no glitch in the matrix. The days are missing because the universe switched from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian one, which is what we still use today. As explained by Britannica, the calendar was introduced by Pope Gregory XIII who erased 10 days from the time in order for making the transition to the new Gregorian calendar.
The 10 days between October 5th and October 14th will never exist at all, and the day after October 4th, in 1582 was declared as October 15th. The reason for this was to bring the vernal equinox from the 11th of March back to the 21st of March, but the church didnโt want to skip any major Christian festivals. So, they decided to skip the 10 days from the month of October rather than March, and the Feast of St. Francis of Assisi on the 4th of October was directly followed by the 15th of October.
Reason Behind Skipping 10 Days In 1582 October
The vernal equinox which is known as the spring equinox is the moment in the sun crosses the celestial equator in a northerly direction. There are 2 equinoxes every year when the amount of daylight and nighttime are of equal length and the Sun is exactly above the Equator. The vernal equinox takes place around March 20th to 21st and the autumn equinox occurs around 22nd September to 23rd every year.
He wanted to erase all the errors and get the calendar back in sync with astronomy which is why the days needed to be dropped. However, only Italy, Poland, Portugal, Spain, and France adopted the new calendar at that time. When several countries started using it, more days had to be dropped.
The US, Canada, and the UK skipped 11 days in 1752, Japan cut 12 days in 1872, and Russia, Estonia, Greece, and Turkey, and Bulgaria all dropped 13 days in different years in the 20th century for making it the same as of others.