Gregorian calendar reform
1582 · Event
Pope Gregory XIII corrects the drifting Julian calendar; the Gregorian calendar is now the world's civil standard.
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Around 1582
- English Reformation ends (1559)
- British East India Company chartered (1600)
- Thirty Years' War begins (1618)
- English Reformation begins (1534)
- Death of Henry VIII (1547)
- English Reformation (1534)
- Council of Trent (1545)
- William Shakespeare (1564)
- Reign of Elizabeth I (1558)
- Shakespeare's Hamlet (1601)