While driving home I listened to a radio show on the leap second which leads to a interesting question. On what date was George Washingtons Born? Believe it or not this is a world question. If no one gets it right I will give the answer next week.
As far as I know, back in the day only the churchs (mostly catholic ones) and big families (as in, inportant ones) had a record of birth dates and defunctions, so most people went undetected. It was not until the late 1800s when some countries established a central unified entity to keep an eye on the data of every human being born in their territory. The US is kinda weird in this aspect, since the government never decided on making a move in this area, and thats why the most common ID is the social security number. Anyway, I'm more of a jefferson fan...
Actually the world used two different calanders and changed to one before the 1800's. Another clue King George the 2nd declared this.
February 22nd 1732? Thats what wikipedia says. As far as I know, it was the church who deleted 10 days (between 12th and 22nd October) in the 16th century. But thats not the point in here I assume.
As I read, he was born at the 11th of February 1731 which equals 02/22/1732 on todays kalendary system. These 10 days always confuse me
You are right. Most people answer he was born on feb 22. His Birthday is the 22 but his born date is the 11th. If you go by the dates he was born on feb 11 1732. Here is a brief synopsis on the leap The first leap year in the modern sense was 1752, when 11 days were 'lost' from the month September with the adoption of the Gregorian calendar by Britain and her colonies. When King George proclaimed this he never stated it being retroactive and since to be considered 21 Washington needed to add 11 to his real Birthday making his birthday need to be 22. Here is a link to the proclamation: http://www.exit109.com/~ghealton/y2k/br1752a.html I found this interesting if you are doing any History on your own family because more than likely if you are looking at birthdays and when relatives are born if anyone is basing it off the new calander, for relitives born before 1752 than you could in fact have the birthday off.
