Wprowadzenie kalendarza gregoriańskiego na Pomorzu Zachodnim w 1700 roku
The Introduction of the Gregorian Calendar in Western Pomerania in 1700

Summary/Abstract: The change of the Julian Calendar into a ‘corrected’ calendar did not cause any commotion in Western Pomerania. In the official sources there are no traces left of social reaction to the removal of 11 days in 1700 that would have been similar to the reactions of the English street to a analogous calendar reform in 1752. We do not know the feelings of an average Pomeranian, in whose life the day of February 18th, 1700 was followed by March 1st, 1700. The only problem we now know about was the one concerning printing new calendars. In the Brandenburg- Prussian part it resulted from the introduction of the state monopoly on printing yearbooks granted to a newly created Scientific Society in Berlin. The local printers protested, included Johann Nicolaus Ernst, the official printer of the province, but to no avail. In the Swedish part that type of state directives were not implemented, but the local printers were quite interested in the change; what mattered there was the fact that the ruler granted the privilege of printing the official calendar to the Province, which led to a long- running dispute among printers.

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