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Thread #71838   Message #1232175
Posted By: Big Tim
23-Jul-04 - 09:46 AM
Thread Name: H'py Battle of Aughrim day - Ire & World
Subject: RE: H'py Battle of Aughrim day - Ire & World
Aughrim was 12 July 1691, old calendar: add on 10 days for equivalent modern date = 22 July.

Boyne fought on 1 July 1690, old calendar: equivalent modern date = 11 July. ("the 12th" is a miscalculation, should be the "11th", due to Rome, and Catholic southern Europe, adopting new calendar in 1582 and suspicious Protestant Britain not adopting the new calendar until 1752).

(I still don't know what point Larry is making!).