Our close neighbor, Russia, is worthy of being a down-to-earth "fighting nation" and has always liked to fight nature.
The same goes for questions about calendars.
It is clear to everyone that on November 7, 1917, a great revolution took place in Russia, which caused strong political turmoil. According to the Julian calendar algorithm implemented in Russia, it was October 25.
So, although it happened in November of the Gregorian calendar, it really has to be called the October Revolution!
Nothing wrong with that.
In fact, the evolution of the Russian calendar is undoubtedly a living fairy fight. The October Revolution was just a fragment of it.
The first to appear is the following one.
Julius Caesar, the founder of the Roman Empire and an excellent military commander, was Julius Caesar the Great.
In 46 BC, he developed a new calendar with the help of the Greek mathematician and astronomer Socicheni of Alexandria, Egypt, and implemented it on January 1 of the same year.
This calendar is known as the Julian calendar. It is calculated on the basis of 365 days as a year, but also every 4 years for a leap year to increase by 1 day.
This chronology, which seemed extremely advanced at the time, was popular and widely used on the European continent.
Next, a powerful challenger came: Pope Gregory XIII!
He brought not only the pastoral emblem, but also the new calendar.
Why change it? Because, after some people's calculations, it is found that after 128 years, there will be one more day, which will lead to the number of years in the future will gradually deviate from the right track.
In other words, the Julian calendar is not very scientific.
So, in 1582, Gregory XIII set up a special committee to reform the calendar, and decided to adopt the plan of the Italian physician Lirio, removing the three more leap years of the Julian calendar in 400 years.
The new Gregorian calendar, which is common today, was quickly popularized for its simplicity, accuracy, and decorum.
Unfortunately, Russia was not included in the welcoming line.
What is the Gregorian calendar? I don't know! Don't understand! Not accepted!
On the question of the calendar, except for the October Revolution, the Russians' big wave god operation is on the way.
The earliest use of the "Year of Genesis" in Russia. The year 5508 BC is set as the first year, and the new year begins on March 1 (changed to September 1 after 1492).
In December 1699, Peter I, who loved to learn advanced knowledge from the West, ordered the adoption of the Julian calendar, changing the day after December 31, 7208, the "Year of Genesis", to January 1, 1700.
When the news of the advent of the Gregorian calendar came out, Russia, which spanned Europe and Asia, was a stubborn conservative and continued to use the Julian calendar.
It was not until January 26, 1918, that the Russian government announced the adoption of a new calendar (i.e., the Gregorian calendar).
Unfortunately, the good times did not last long. On the road of love and tossing, Russians have never been willing to be lonely.
More than a year later, the "Calendar of the Soviet Revolution", which challenged the laws of nature, was unveiled. It stipulates that from October 1, 1929 onwards, each month is 30 days, 6 weeks, 5 days a week.
In order to complete the Earth's cycle, 5 days are inserted in the middle of each year. One additional day after 30 January is Lenin Day (День Ленинна); two days after 30 April, which is Labour Day (Дни труда); two days after 7 November; and one day after 30 February in leap years.
Moreover, everyone's rest days have increased greatly: from "do six days off one" to "do four days off one". Everyone is divided into five groups of rotating breaks, with an average of one day off per week.
However, the goose, the ideal is very plump, the reality is very punching.
The first to complain about this new calendar are precisely the workers who take more than twenty extra days off each year.
They found that the new way of taking turns caused great chaos in the order of life. Someone wrote to the media complaining that his wife and friends were in the factory when he took a turn off, and that his children were at school "a vacation that had to be spent alone, not a real vacation." Moreover, there are no Sundays in five days a week, Orthodox christians cannot pray, can not find a time to take a centralized break for weddings, and social life is basically paralyzed.
Worse still, it didn't succeed in ramping up production.
Thus, in 1940, the calendar reform was a complete failure, and the Soviet Union changed back to the 7 days a week calendar.
Finally, a little more common sense.
From January 1, 1912.
Whether it's now, or later...