Book Description
Excerpt from The Coin Collector's Journal, 1880, Vol. 5: Illustrated By the reformation Of the calendar by Pope Gregory XIII, the year began on the first of January, and, consequently, whenever and wherever the new style of reckoning time was adopted, then and there the year commenced on this day. Previous to the use Of the Gregorian Calendar, the years had differ ent days of beginning at various times in the same and different coun tries, and occasionally at the same time in the same country. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.