What Day of the Week

October 4, 1582 was the 277^th day of the year 1582 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 88 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Monday.

The day of the week for October 4, 1582 under the old Julian calendar was Thursday. 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 Getsuyōbi.

A person born on this day will be 440 years old today. If that same person saved a Nickel every day starting at age 4, then by now that person has accumulated $7,980.25 today.

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Here’s the October 1582 Gregorian calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly 1582 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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  Pope Gregory XIII implements the Gregorian Calendar. In Italy, Poland, Portugal, and Spain, October 4 of this year is followed directly by October 15.

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 4, 1582). 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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