Old Style and New Style indicate dating systems before and after a calendar change, respectively. Usually, they refer to the change from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar as enacted in var
Memorial plaque to John Etty in All Saints' Church, North Street, York, recording his date of death as "28 of Jan: 170+8/9"
Thomas Jefferson's tombstone. Written below the epitaph is "Born April 2. 1743. O.S. Died July 4. 1826."
Issue 9198 of The London Gazette, covering the calendar change in Great Britain. The issue spans the changeover; the date heading reads: "From Tuesday September 1, O.S. to Saturday September 16, N.S. 1752" (in fact 5 days).
Vladimir Lenin
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Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as Vladimir Lenin, was a Russian revolutionary, politician, and political theorist. He served as the first and founding head of government of Soviet Russia from 1
Old Style and New Style dates
…in Russia on 14 February 1918 by dropping the Julian dates of 1–13 February 1918, pursuant to a Sovnarkom decree signed 24 January 1918 (Julian) by Vladimir Lenin. The decree required that the Julian date was to be written in parentheses after the Gregorian date, until 1 July 1918. It is common in English-language…
Lenin in 1920
Lenin (left) at the age of three with his sister, Olga
Lenin was influenced by the works of Karl Marx.
Police mugshot of Vladimir Lenin, 1895