STYLE
, in Chronology, a particular manner of counting time; as the Old Style, the New Style. See Calendar.
Old Syyle, is the Julian manner of computing, as instituted by Julius Cæsar, in which the mean year consists of 365 1/4 days.
New Style, is the Gregorian manner of computation, instituted by pope Gregory the 13th, in the year 1582, and is used by most catholic countries, and many other states of Europe.
The Gregorian, or new Style, agrees with the true solar year, which contains only 365 days 5 hours 49 minutes. In the year of Christ 200, there was no difference of Styles. In the year 1582, when the new Style was first introduced, there was a difference of 10 days. At present there is 11 days difference, and accordingly at the diet of Ratisbon, in the year 1700, it was decreed by the body of protestants of the empire, that 11 days should be retrenched from the old Style, to accommodate it for the future to the new. And the same regulation has since passed into Sweden, Denmark, and into England, where it was established in the year 1752, when it was enacted, that in all dominions belonging to the crown of Great Britain, the supputation, according to which the year of our lord begins on the 25th day of March, shall not be used from and after the last day of December 1751; and that from thenceforth, the 1st day of January every year shall be reckoned to be the first day of the year: and that the natural day next immediately following the 2d day of September 1752, shall be accounted the 14th day of September, omitting the 11 intermediate nominal days of the common calendar. It is farther enacted, that all kinds of writings, &c, shall bear date according to the new method of computation, and that all courts and meetings &c, feasts, fasts, &c, shall be held and observed accordingly. And for preserving the calendar in the same regular course for the future, it is enacted, that the several years of our lord 1800, 1900, 2100, 2200, 2300, &c, except only every 400th year, of which the year 2000 shall be the first, shall be common years of 365 days, and that the years 2000, 2400, 2800, &c, and every other 400th year from the year 2000 inclusive, shall be leap years, consisting of 366 days. See Bissextile and Calendar.
The following table shews by what number of days the new style differs from the old, from 5900 years before the birth of Christ, to 5900 years after it. The days under the sign — (viz from 6000 years before to 200 years after Christ) are to be subtracted from the old Style, to reduce it to the new; and the days under the sign + (viz from 200 to 5900 years after Christ) are to be added to the old Style, to reduce it to the new.—N.B. All the years mentioned in the table are leap years in the old Style; but those only that are marked with an L are leap years in the new. |
| Years before | Days | Years after | Days | ||
| Christ. | diff. | Christ. | diff. | ||
| New Style. | - | New Style. | ∓ | ||
| 5900 | 46 | L | 0 | - 2 | |
| 5800 | 45 | 100 | - 1 | ||
| 5700 | 44 | 200 | 0 | ||
| L | 5600 | 44 | 300 | + 1 | |
| 5500 | 43 | L | 400 | 1 | |
| 5400 | 42 | 500 | 2 | ||
| 5300 | 41 | 600 | 3 | ||
| L | 5200 | 41 | 700 | 4 | |
| 5100 | 40 | L | 800 | 4 | |
| 5000 | 39 | 900 | 5 | ||
| 4900 | 38 | 1000 | 6 | ||
| L | 4800 | 38 | 1100 | 7 | |
| 4700 | 37 | L | 1200 | 7 | |
| 4600 | 36 | 1300 | 8 | ||
| 4500 | 35 | 1400 | 9 | ||
| L | 4400 | 35 | 1500 | 10 | |
| 4300 | 34 | L | 1600 | 10 | |
| 4200 | 33 | 1700 | 11 | ||
| 4100 | 32 | 1800 | 12 | ||
| L | 4000 | 32 | 1900 | 13 | |
| 3900 | 31 | L | 2000 | 13 | |
| 3800 | 30 | 2100 | 14 | ||
| 3700 | 29 | 2200 | 15 | ||
| L | 3600 | 29 | 2300 | 16 | |
| 3500 | 28 | L | 2400 | 16 | |
| 3400 | 27 | 2500 | 17 | ||
| 3300 | 26 | 2600 | 18 | ||
| L | 3200 | 26 | 2700 | 19 | |
| 3100 | 25 | L | 2800 | 19 | |
| 3000 | 24 | 2900 | 20 | ||
| 2900 | 23 | 3000 | 21 | ||
| L | 2800 | 23 | 3100 | 22 | |
| 2700 | 22 | L | 3200 | 22 | |
| 2600 | 21 | 3300 | 23 | ||
| 2500 | 20 | 3400 | 24 | ||
| L | 2400 | 20 | 3500 | 25 | |
| 2300 | 19 | L | 3600 | 25 | |
| 2200 | 18 | 3700 | 26 | ||
| 2100 | 17 | 3800 | 27 | ||
| L | 2000 | 17 | 3900 | 28 | |
| 1900 | 16 | L | 4000 | 28 | |
| 1800 | 15 | 4100 | 29 | ||
| 1700 | 14 | 4200 | 30 | ||
| L | 1600 | 14 | 4300 | 31 | |
| 1500 | 13 | L | 4400 | 31 | |
| 1400 | 12 | 4500 | 32 | ||
| 1300 | 11 | 4600 | 33 | ||
| L | 1200 | 11 | 4700 | 34 | |
| 1100 | 10 | L | 4800 | 34 | |
| 1000 | 9 | 4900 | 35 | ||
| 900 | 8 | 5000 | 36 | ||
| L | 800 | 8 | 5100 | 37 | |
| 700 | 7 | L | 5200 | 37 | |
| 600 | 6 | 5300 | 38 | ||
| 500 | 5 | 5400 | 39 | ||
| L | 400 | 5 | 5500 | 40 | |
| 300 | 4 | L | 5600 | 40 | |
| 200 | 3 | 5700 | 41 | ||
| 100 | 2 | 5800 | 42 | ||
| L | 0 | 2 | 5900 | 43 |
The French nation has lately commenced another new Style, or computation of time, viz, in the year 1792; according to which, the year commences usually on our 22d of September. The year is divided into 12 months of 30 days each; and each month into 3 decades of 10 days each. For the names and computations of which, see the article Calendar.
Style, in Dialling, denotes the cock or gnomon, raised above the plane of the dial, to project a Shadow. —The edge of the Style, which by its shadow marks the hours on the face of the dial, is to be set according to the latitude, always parallel to the axis of the world.
