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The Papal States, Spain and Portugal, France, the Netherlands, and Scandinavia adopt the Gregorian calendar, which corrects an error in the Julian calendar that has caused the beginning date for each season to regress almost one day per century. (That is, by 1582 the vernal equinox was occurring on 11 March instead of 21 March.)
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