September 3, 1752 - The Day That Didn't Happen

JW Ross

In the midst of unrelenting attacks on the frontier and the Conococheague by maurading Indians, the British government and her colonies adopted the Gregorian calendar. To make the shift . . . September 3rd in 1752, and the next ten days, essentially, did not happen. Riots broke out in England and a few of the cities throughout the colonies as people thought the government had literally stolen eleven days.

Frontier areas like the Conococheague already in turmoil, reported little consternation and fewer disturbances.