Photo Shared On Twitter Claims 10 Days Missing In October 1582 - Know What Happened
The missing dates in between surprised the social media users who began to question the reason behind it.
Twitter users were in a state of confusion after a post shared on the micro-blogging site claimed to show that the month of October in the year 1582 had 10 fewer days than usual. Soon after it was posted, people began looking into the calendar of October 1582. And to the surprise of the social media users, October did not look the same that year.
Shared by a Twitter user by the name The Real Bello, the photo was captioned, "Everybody go to the year 1582 on your calendar and look at October......" Soon after being posted people began to look in their computer and smartphone calendars by going all the way back to the year 1582 and found out that October 4 is proceeded by October 15.
The missing dates in between surprised the people and many began to question the reason behind it. They also posted several photos of the 1582 calendar on the social media platform.
One of the user wrote, "What’s really happening there."
What’s really happening there
— ZADDYLOGIC 😎 (@zaddylogic) November 15, 2022
While another wrote, "Wow.... We are practically living in an illusion."
Wow.... We are practically living in an illusion.🤦
— Flawless🤍👑🎧🎤🖊️🤍 (@flawless_gal) November 16, 2022
"What happened the second week of October in 1582 that y’all wanted so desperately to be erased from history, y’all snatched it out the calendar?" wrote a third user.
What happened the second week of October in 1582 that y’all wanted so desperately to be erased from history, y’all snatched it out the calendar? 😂😂😂 pic.twitter.com/wTzt1oAOGB
— AroostookGrizz 💣 (@AroostookG) November 27, 2022
Bello in the same thread further revealed that "The Gregorian Calendar was then introduced on October 4th 1582 and, to realign it to the Julian Calendar, it was necessary to eliminate ten days by passing directly to October 15. And therefore from 5 to 14 October no one was born, no one died."
American astrophysicist and science communicator Neil deGrasse Tyson also explained the matter and said, "By 1582, the Julian calendar, with a Leap Day every four years, had accumulated TEN extra days relative to Earth's orbit. So Pope Gregory jump-started his new and exquisitely accurate calendar by canceling 10 days that year, in which October 4 was followed by October 15."
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