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We mark certain days of the year with ‘On This Day’ posts, recalling events associated with them.

Our events are grouped under two calendars. The Gregorian ‘New Style’ (NS) is the worldwide calendar first issued at Rome in 1582. On that calendar, today is December 19. The Julian ‘Old Style’ (OS), also issued at Rome but in 46 BC, was used in Roman Britain and then in England from Anglo-Saxon times until 1752. It is still used today by roughly 100 million Orthodox Christians worldwide. On that calendar, today is December 6.

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The Insect on the Leaf

By Charles Dickens

Scrooge begs the Spirit of Christmas to tell him what will happen to Tiny Tim.

Once, Ebenezer Scrooge thought that disabled children should be left to die. Now, he is all anxiety to know what will become of his clerk’s lame and frail boy, tiny Tim.

On This Day • December 30 ns • 1 post

Publication of Dickens’s ‘A Christmas Carol’ (1843)

Posted November 3 2015

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St Nicholas and the Unjust Judge

By Clay Lane

Trouble comes to the town of Myra when Imperial soldiers are despatched to put down a revolt.

In February 313 the new Roman Emperor, Constantine, and Licinius his junior in the Balkans, decreed religious liberty across the Empire. With astonishing speed, formerly persecuted Christian bishops gained public respect, and if this tale is anything to judge by, deservedly so.

On This Day • December 17 os • 8 posts

The Feast of St Nicholas of Myra

Posted June 10 2018

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Roman Easter 2024: Sunday March 31

Old English Easter 2024: Sunday May 5

Christmas 2024: Wednesday December 25

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