Gregorian calendar Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ====Adoption by country==== {{hatnote|This is a brief summary. For a comprehensive table, see [[List of adoption dates of the Gregorian calendar by country]]}} {| class="wikitable" ! Year ! Country/-ies/Areas |- | 1582 | [[Spain]], [[Portugal]], [[France]], [[Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth]], [[Italy]], Catholic [[Low Countries]], [[Luxembourg]], and colonies thereof |- | 1584 | [[Kingdom of Bohemia]], some Catholic [[Swiss cantons]]{{efn|name="CH"|In the [[Old Swiss Confederacy]], [[Helvetic Republic]], or [[Switzerland]], adoptions were made between 1584 and 1811. Some Catholic cantons switched in 1584, some Protestant in 1700/1701. For a complete list see [[List of adoption dates of the Gregorian calendar per country]].}} |- | 1610 | [[Prussia]] |- | 1648 | [[Alsace]] |- | 1682 | [[Strasbourg]] |- | 1700 | Protestant [[Low Countries]], [[Norway]], [[Denmark]], some Protestant [[Swiss cantons]]{{efn| name="CH"}} |- | 1752 | [[Kingdom of Great Britain|Great Britain]], [[Kingdom of Ireland|Ireland]], and the [[British Empire#"First" British Empire (1707–1783)|"First" British Empire (1707–1783)]] |- | 1753 | [[Sweden]] and [[Finland]] |- | 1873 | [[Japan]] |- | 1875 | [[Egypt]] |- | 1896 | [[Korea]] |- | 1912 | [[China]], [[Albania]] |- | 1915 | [[Latvia]], [[Lithuania]] |- | 1916 | [[Bulgaria]] |- | 1917 | [[Ottoman Empire]] |- | 1918 | [[Ukraine]], [[Russia]], [[Estonia]] |- | 1919 | [[Romania]], [[Yugoslavia]]{{efn|1919 in the regions comprising the former Kingdoms of Serbia and Montenegro (present-day Kosovo, Montenegro, Serbia and North Macedonia). The western and northern regions of what became Yugoslavia were already using the Gregorian calendar. For example, most of [[Slovenia]] adopted the Gregorian calendar at the same time as [[Austria]] in 1583. Coastal [[Croatia]], which was at the time ruled by [[Venice]], adopted the Gregorian calendar in 1582. Inland [[Croatia]], ruled by the [[House of Habsburg|Habsburgs]], adopted it in 1587 along with Hungary. The Gregorian calendar was used in [[Bosnia and Herzegovina]] since the 16th century by the [[Catholic Church|Catholic]] population and was formally adopted for government use in 1878 following occupation by [[Austria-Hungary]].}} |- | 1923 | [[Greece]] |- | 1926 | [[Turkey]] ([[common era]] years; Gregorian dates in use since 1917 Ottoman adoption) |- | 2016 | [[Saudi Arabia]] |} Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page