{"id":17467,"date":"2024-01-01T13:53:35","date_gmt":"2024-01-01T19:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=17467"},"modified":"2024-01-01T13:53:35","modified_gmt":"2024-01-01T19:53:35","slug":"25-march-started-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/01\/25-march-started-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"25 March Started the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Until 1752 England and their colonies started the &#8220;new year&#8221; on 25 March. That can create confusion because during the time when the year started on 25 March, the year number would not &#8220;roll over&#8221; to the next year until 25 March. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mass.gov\/news\/happy-new-year#:~:text=Until%201752%2C%20England%20and%20its,day%20of%20the%20calendar%20year.&amp;text=Since%20ancient%20times%2C%20England%20had,Julius%20Caesar%20in%2045%20BCE.\">article on the State of Massachusetts website goes into more detail.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This<a href=\"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=7397\"> post on our sister site shows a will dated 17 June 1743 and admitted to probate on 9 March 1743<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Until 1752 England and their colonies started the &#8220;new year&#8221; on 25 March. That can create confusion because during the time when the year started on 25 March, the year number would not &#8220;roll over&#8221; to the next year until 25 March. This article on the State of Massachusetts website goes into more detail. This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153978,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/153978"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}