Swedish calendar

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Swedish calendar
The Swedish Calendar in use from March 11700 until February 301712 was one day ahead of the Julian calendar and ten days behind the Gregorian calendar.In November 1699 it was decided that Sweden would begin to adopt the New Style, or Gregorian calendar, starting in 1700. The plan was to skip all leap days in the period 1700 to 1740, thus gradually approaching the Gregorian Calendar over 40 years. According to plan February 29 was omitted in 1700, but no further reductions were made in the following years. In January 1711, King Charles XII declared that Sweden would abandon the calendar, which wasn't in use by any other nation nor had achieved its objective, in favour of a return to the Old Style. An extra day was added to February in the leap year of 1712, thus giving it a unique 30 day length.
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