What Day of the Week

October 21, 1520 was the 295^th day of the year 1520 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 71 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Thursday.

The day of the week for October 21, 1520 under the old Julian calendar was Sunday. Did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

If you are trying to learn Japanese then this day of the week in Japanese is Mokuyōbi.

A person born on this day will be 499 years old today. If that same person saved a Quarter every day starting at age 5, then by now that person has accumulated $45,172.00 today.

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Here’s the October 1520 Gregorian calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly 1520 calendar.

Libra is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Opal is the modern birthstone for this month. Jasper is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

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• 1520

  Ferdinand Magellan discovers a strait now known as Strait of Magellan.
• 1520

  João Álvares Fagundes discovers the islands of Saint-Pierre and Miquelon, bestowing them their original name of “Islands of the 11,000 Virgins”.

A note to students, teachers, scholars and anyone else passionate about this topic. As stated in the front page, this website is using the Gregorian calendar as the basis for all “day of the week” computation whether or not the Gregorian calendar is relevant for the date in question (October 21, 1520). Educators should point out the primary reason why Pope Gregory XIII introduced a new calendar system in October 1582. That is, to make the computation for the annual date of Easter more accurate since it is the foundation of the Christian faith.

Even with that purpose in mind, the Gregorian calendar too will become out of sync. It has a known approximation error of about one day for every 7,700 years assuming a constant time interval between vernal equinoxes (which is not true). This is better compared to the one day for every 128 years error of the Julian calendar.

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