Russia's February 1918 had no 1st to 13th. By decree, Wednesday 31 January was followed by Thursday 14 February — Russia adopting the Gregorian calendar 336 years after Catholic Europe.
The events
- October Revolution1917 · Petrograd. On 25 October (7 November) 1917 the Bolsheviks led by Lenin overthrew the Provisional Government and seized the Winter Palace. The world's first socialist state was born, and the seizure of power was followed by the Russian Civil War.
- Gregorian calendar1582 · Rome. In 1582 Pope Gregory XIII introduced a new calendar: Thursday 4 October was followed directly by Friday 15 October. Protestant countries adopted it gradually, and Russia only in 1918.
More amazing facts
- 1576 Tycho Brahe kept a tame elk that, so the story goes, was killed by beer.
- 1581 When Oda Nobunaga first saw the African Yasuke in 1581, he had his skin scrubbed, thinking it was ink. Convinced otherwise, he took Yasuke into service with a stipend and a sword.
- 1582 · 1918 In autumn 1582 Catholic Europe jumped from 4 to 15 October, while Yermak’s Cossacks were marching on the capital of the Khanate of Sibir.
- 1586 · 1589 Galileo probably never did his famous Leaning Tower experiment.
- 1586 · 1980 The Tsar Cannon, contrary to the saying, seems to have been fired.
- 1587 · 1588 · 1590 The Roanoke colony may have been lost because of the Spanish Armada.