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Was that the adjustment to align the julian and gregorian calendars???? Cos it happened a lot later in the UK than everywhere else - like 200 years or so and was finally done in April I vaguely recollect from history lessons.
Yes. I didn't realise the English persisted with Julian after 1582, though.
I just looked it up: England skipped 11 days in September 1752.
It's a major plot point in Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco. So it stuck in my little pink mind more than might otherwise have done. Stunning book that - self-delusion on steroids.