Episode 06
Time in Conflict
Calendars as power
Colonial imposition of the Gregorian year, the 1752 calendar riots in England, the French Republican calendar, the Soviet nepreryvka, and communities that kept their own count in secret.
Beats
- Eleven days stolen in Britain, 1752.
- The Republican calendar as de-Christianization.
- Mission schools and the weekday as a tool of conversion.
Terms
- Calendar riot
- Popular unrest when civil dates jump and rents, wages, or saints' days move.
- Nepreryvka
- The Soviet continuous work-week that tried to kill Sunday.
Discussion
- When is calendar reform experienced as theft?
- Can a people keep two calendars at once without splitting in two?
Classroom check
Britain's September 1752 reform jumped the civil date by: