Edict of Roussillon
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Edict of Roussillon
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The Edict of Roussillon was a 1564 edict decreeing that in France the year would begin on 1 January. During a trip to various parts of his kingdom, the King of France, Charles IX, found that depending on the diocese, the year began either at Christmas or on 25 March, on 1 March, or at Easter. In order to standardise the date for the new year in the entire kingdom, he added an article to an edict given at Paris in January 1563 which he promulgated at Roussillon on 9 August 1564. It started being
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