These pages list the key dates in the history of the sailing navies of the world.
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01 April
1742
HMS Eltham(44), Cptn. Edward Smith, and HMS Lively(20), Cptn. Stewart, engaged three Spanish ships of 60, 40 and 30 Guns off St. Kitts.
1761
HMS Isis (50) took French Oriflamme (56)
1797
HMS Hazard(18), Alexander Ruddach, captured French brig-privateer Hardi(18) off the Skellocks, Ireland.
1809
Boats of HMS Mercury(28), Cptn. Henry Duncan, cut out Venetian gunboat Ledaat Rovigno.
HMS Amelia(38), Cptn. Frederick Paul Irby, destroyed batteries in Aix Roads.
02 April
1755
HEICS Protectorattacked and destroyed the fortress of Tulaji Angre
1781
US Frigate Alliance (36) captures 2 British privateers, Mars (26) and Minerva (10) off the French Coast
1801
First Battle of Copenhagen. British under Vice Ad. Nelson destroy moored Danish ships under Cptn. Johan Olfert Fischer.
1804
HMS Apollo(36), Cptn. John William Taylor Dixon, wrecked running on shore in Mondego Bay, Portugal.
HMS Hindostan (54), Cptn. John Le Gros, caught fire off the coast of Spain and blew up after the crew got ashore.
1814
Boats of HMS Porcupine(22), Cptn. Sir George R. Collier, captured 12 and destroyed 4 vessels.
HMS Gleaner(12), Lt. Alexander Barclay Branch, fouled by other vessels off the mouth of the Adour in a storm and driven ashore.
03 April
1801
Boats of HMS Trent(36), Cptn. Sir Edward Hamilton, drove ashore 2 armed escorts and captured French prize.
1804
HMS Swift(8), Lt. William Martin Leake (Killed in Action), captured by French privateer Esperance(10), Cptn. Escoffier.
1805
HMS Bacchante(22), Cptn. Charles Dashwood, captured Spanish schooner Elisabeth (10) off Havana.
1813
Boats of HMS San Domingo (74) and consorts captured 4 schooners, Arab (7), Lynx (6), Racer (6) and Dolphin(12), in the mouth of the Rappahannock River.
04 April
1655
Burning of the Tunis ships in Porto Farino by British fleet under Robert Blake
1759
HMS Achilles(60), Cptn. Hon. Samuel Barrington, took French privateer Le Comte de St. Florentine (60), Cptn. Sieur de Montay, off Cape Finisterre.
1776
Continental Navy frigate Columbus captures HM Tender Hawke, first American capture of British armed vessel
1789
HMS Bounty left Tahiti for the West Indies with breadfruit.
1798
HMS Pallas(32), Cptn. Henry Curzon, lost anchor in a gale and drove on the rocks under Mount Batten, Plymouth.
1806
HMS Renommee(44), Cptn. Sir Thomas Livingstone, captured Spanish brig Vigilante, (18), Lt Don Joseph Julian, from under Fort Callartes, Cape de Gata.
1808
HMS Alceste(38), Cptn. Murray Maxwell, HMS Mercury(28), Cptn. James Alexander Gordon, and HMS Grasshopper(18), Thomas Searle, took 7 vessels and drove many others ashore at Rota.
1810
Boats of HMS Success(32), Cptn. John Ayscough, and HMS Espoir(18), Robert Mitford, took and set on fire 2 vessels at Castiglione, Calabria.
HMS CuckooBrig (4), Lt. Sam. Nisbett, wrecked on Haaks, off Texel.
1812
Capture of a French privateer xebec Martinet (2) by the Boats of HMS Maidstone(32), Cptn. George Burdett off Cap de Gatt.
1854
Sailors and Marines from sailing sloop, Plymouth, protect U.S. citizens at Shanghai
05 April
1769
Thomas Masterman Hardy born in Portisham, Dorset.
1772
HMS Resolution,Cdr. James Cook, and HMS Adventure,Lt. Tobias Furneaux, sailed on voyage of discovery.
1805
Boats of HMS Bacchante(22), Cptn. Charles Dashwood, stormed a tower and cut out 2 schooners at Mariel, Havana.
1849
The Battle of Eckernførde. Danish Ship-of-the-Line Christian VIII, the frigate Gefion and the paddle steamers Hekla and Geiser, under Cdr. S. G. Paludan, attacks the German gun batteries at Eckernførde inlet. Christian VIII takes fire and blows up, while Gefion strikes to the Germans.
06 April
1776
Continental frigates Warren(34), Commodore John Burroughs Hopkins,and Queen of France(28), Cptn. Joseph Olney, with sloop-of-war Ranger (18), Lt. Simpson, capture British privateer schooner Hibernia (10) and the following day 7 merchant vessels
1797
Boats of HMS Magicienne(32), Cptn. William Henry Ricketts, and HMS Regulus(44) destroyed 11 and cut out 2 merchantmen in the harbour of Cape Roxo, St. Domingo.
1800
Boats of HMS Leviathan(74), Cptn. Carpenter, and HMS Emerald(36), Cptn. M. Waller, captured Spanish brig Los Ingleses (14)
1806
Boats of HMS Pallas(32), Cptn. Lord Cochrane, cut out Tapageuse (14) one of two French brig-corvettes lying in the river Gironde leading to Bordeaux.
While awaiting the return of her boats, Pallas drove on shore two French ship-corvettes, Garonne(20) and Gloire (20), and the brig-corvette Malicieuse (16).
1809
HMS Amethyst(36), Cptn. Michael Seymour, captured French frigate Niemen(44), Cptn. Dupotet, in the Bay of Biscay.
1810
HMS Sylviacutter (12), Lt. Augustus Vere Drury, destroyed armed piratical proa in Straits of Sundra.
1811
HMS Arrow(10) in action with chasse marées.
1826
Boats of HMS Alacrity(10), George James Hope Johnstone, took 3 Greek pirate vessels off the island of Psara.
1862
Naval Gunfire from Tyler and Lexington help save Union Troops at Battle of Shiloh
07 April
1776
Continental brig Lexington, Cptn. John Barry, captures British sloop tender Edward off the Delaware
1800
HMS Leviathan(74), Cptn. Carpenter, and HMS Emerald(36), Cptn. M. Waller, captured Spanish frigates Carmen(34), Dom Fraquin Porcel, and Florentina(34), Dom Manuel Norates. 11 merchantmen were also taken.
1810
HMS Sylvia cutter (12), Lt. Augustus Vere Drury, captured piratical proa in Straits of Sundra.
08 April
1681
HMS Nonsuch (42) and HMS Adventure (34), Cptn. William Booth, capture Algerine warship Golden Horse (46).
1709
HMS Bristol (48) captured by French squadron of Achilles(60) and Glorieux(44), under Duguay-Trouin.
1740
British squadron of HMS Lennox (70), Cptn. Colvill Mayne, HMS Kent (70), Cptn. Durell, and HMS Orford (70), Cptn. Lord Augustus FitzRoy, captured Spanish Princesa (64), Don Parlo Augustino de Gera, off Cape Finisterre
1798
HMS Diamond(38), Cptn. Sir R. J. Strachan, and HMS Hydra(38), Cptn. Sir Francis Laforey, engaged 33 invasion barges in the Caen River.
1814
Seamen and marines from HMS Hogue (74), Cptn. Hon. Thomas Blayden Capel, HMS Maidstone (32), Cptn. George Burdett, HMS Endymion (50), Cptn. Henry Hope, and HMS Borer destroyed 27 American vessels in the Connecticut River.
09 April
1709
British channel squadron under Lord Dursley defeated French squadron under Duguay-Trouin, taking Glorieux (44), and re-taking HMS Bristol which sank soon afterwards.
1777
Horatio Nelson passes examination for lieutenant.
1792
HMS Providence, Cptn. William Bligh, and HMS Assistant arrive at Tahiti on 2nd breadfruit voyage.
1799
HMS San Fiorenzo(38), Cptn. Sir H. Burrard Neale, and HMS Amelia(38), Cptn. Hon. Charles Herbert, engaged three French frigates, Cornelie, Vengeance and Semillante, off Belle Isle.
1804
HMS Amazon(38), Cptn. William Parker, captured a brig under fire at Sepet.
1805
HMS Gracieuse tender (14), Midshipman John Bernhard Smith, destroyed a Spanish armed schooner off San Domingo.
10 April
1746
Privateer Alexander (20) Cptn Phillips, cut out & recaptured Solebay (24) from St. Martin's road.
1769
HMS Endeavour, Lt. James Cook, arrived at Tahiti.
1777
Lt. Horatio Nelson appointed to the frigate Lowestoft.
1794
Capture of the Saintes by British.
1795
British squadron under Rear Ad. Colpoys engaged three French frigate in the Channel. HMS Astraea(32), Cptn. Lord Henry Paulet, captured Gloire (36) and HMS Hannibal(74), Cptn. Markham, captured Gentille (36). Fraternite (36) escaped.
1799
HMS Lord Mulgrave (26) wrecked on Arklow Bank, Irish Channel.
1804
HMS Wilhelmina(32), Cptn. Henry Lambert, engaged french privateer Psyche(36), Cptn. Trogoff in the Indian Ocean
11 April
1783
US Congress declares end of war with Great Britain
1794
HMS Proselytefloating battery, Cptn. Walter Serocold, destroyed by fire from the French batteries at Bastia.
1796
HMS Ca Ira (80), Cptn. Pater, burnt by accident and blown up in St. Fiorenzo Bay.
1809
Cptn. Thomas Cochrane leads fireship raid on the French fleet in the Aix roads
1810
HMS Sylvia cutter (12), Lt. Augustus Vere Drury, sank a piratical proa in Straits of Sundra.
1813
Devil's Island, Corfu, and 2 prizes taken by boats of HMS Apollo(38), Cptn. Bridges W. Taylor, and HMS Cerberus(32), Cptn. Thomas Garth
12 April
1749
HMS Apollo hospital ship, Lt. Robert Wilson, wrecked between Cudalore and Fort St. David's.
1782
Battle of the Saintes. British fleet under Sir George Rodney defeat the French fleet under the Comte De Grasse in the West Indies.
Battle of Providien. British fleet under Vice-Admiral Sir Edward Hughes engaged a French fleet under the Bailli de Suffren near a rocky islet called Providien, south of Trincomalee, Ceylon.
1798
HMS Lively(32), Cptn. James Nicoll Morris, wrecked on Rosa Point, near Cadiz.
1800
Boats of HMS Calypso(16), Cptn Joseph Baker, cut out Diligence (6) off Cape Tiberon.
1806
HMS Brave(74), Cdr. Edmund Boger, foundered off the Azores in passage from Jamaica to England.
1810
HMS Unicorn(32), Cptn. Alex. Robert Kerr, captured Esperance (flute).
1838
HMS Rapid(10), Lt. Hon. Graham Hay St. Vincent de Ros Kinnaird, wrecked off Crete.
1861
Civil War begins when Confederates fire on Fort Sumter, SC
13 April
1749
HMS Pembroke(66), Cptn. Thomas Fincher, wrecked on Coldroon point, India.
1753
HMS Prince George (90), burnt accidentally
1769
Captain Cook arrives at Tahiti
1778
HMS Victory(100), Cptn. Jonathan Faulknor, sailed on first commissioned voyage
1796
HMS Revolutionnaire (44) captured Unite (38) off Ushant.
1799
HMS Amaranthe (14), Francis Vesy, captured French letter of marque schooner Vengeur (6).
1810
4 Danish gun boats, under Lt. Skibsted, capture the British gunboat Grinder off the island of Samsoe.
14 April
1749
HMS Namur(90), Cptn. Marshal, foundered Fort St. David's road, India.
1793
HMS Phaeton(38), Cptn. Sir Andrew Snape Douglas, captured French privateer General Dumourier (22) to the west of Cape Finisterre. San-Iago, a large Spanish galleon prize, also struck to Phaeton but was taken possession of by HMS Ganges (74), Cptnn Anthony James Pye Molloy.
1809
Start of 4 day engagement in which HMS Pompee(80), Cptn. Sir William Fahie, HMS Neptune(98), Cptn. Sir T. Williams, HMS Castor(32), Cptn. Roberts and HMS Recruit (18), Charles Napier, took French D'Hautpoult (74) off Cuba
1813
Melera Island, Corfu, captured by HMS Apollo(38), Cptn. Bridges W. Taylor, and HMS Cerberus(32), Cptn. Thomas Garth
1828
HMS Contest Gun-boat (12), Lt. Edward Plaggenborg, and HMS Acorn Sloop (18) wrecked on Halifax Station.
1857
HMS Raleigh (50) wrecked near Macao
15 April
1805
Boats of HMS Papillon, William Woolsey, captured Spanish felucca-rigged privateer Conception (1) off Jamaica.
1809
HMS Intrepid(64), Cptn. Hon. Warwick Lake, engaged French frigates Furieuse(flute 20), Lt. Gabriel-Etienne-Louis Le Marant-Kerdaniel,and Felicite (flute 14).
16 April
1695
Capture of HMS Hope (70), Cptn. Henry Robinson, by French squadron under Duguay-Trouin in the Channel.
1767
Richard Parker, later President of the "Floating Republic" at the Nore, born.
1781
British squadron under Commodore George Johnstone at anchor in Porto Praya Bay, Cape de Verd Islands, attacked by French squadron under Admiral Suffren
1793
HMS Penelope (36 Cptn, Bartholomew Samuel Rowley, captures the French Goéland (14), Lt. Leissègues de Pennenyum, off Jérémie
1797
Spithead Mutiny starts
French Harmonie (44) beached and set on fire at St. Domigue to avoid capture by HMS Thunderer (74) and HMS Valiant
1812
Capture of 9 coasting vessels by HMS Pilot(18), Cptn. John Toup Nicolas, and boats at Policastro.
1863
Union gunboats pass Confederate batteries at Vicksburg
17 April
1778
Continental Sloop-of-war Ranger (18), John Paul Jones, captures British brig
1780
British fleet under Admiral Sir George Rodney engaged French fleet under Admiral de Guichen off Martinique.
1782
Cptn. John Jervis, HMS Foudroyant (20), chased French squadron, and captured one of the largest ships, the Pegase. Jervis received a minor wound and his achievement in this action was rewarded with a knighthood.
1796
Boats of HMS Diamond(38), Cptn. Sir W. Sidney Smith, captured Le Vengeur at Havre de Grace, Seine estuary. The French cut the cable and unable to escape Sir Sidney and the crew were taken prisoner.
1806
HMS Sirius(36), Cptn. Prowse, took Bergere (18), Cptn. Chaney Duolvis, at Civita Vecchia.
1807
HMS Sally engaged off Danzig.
1813
HMS Alutine captured Invincible.
18 April
1740
HMS Lenox(70), Cptn. Covill Mayne, HMS Kent(70), Cptn. Thomas Durell, and HMS Orford(70), Cptn. Fitzroy, captured Spanish Princessa (70).
1742
HMS Saltash (14) wrecked off the coast of Portugal.
19 April
1759
HMS Falcon bomb (8) wrecked in the West Indies
1770
Captain cook discovers East coast of Australia
1783
George Washington proclaims end of hostilities
1806
HMS Colpoys (14), Thomas Usher, and HMS Attack(14) cut out chasse-marees Vincent Gabriel and the Murie Francaise and destroyed a battery and a signal station in the river Douillan coast of Brittany.
1861
President Lincoln orders blockade of Southern ports from South Carolina to Texas
20 April
1657
British fleet under Robert Blake totally destroyed a Spanish silver fleet of 16 ships at Santa Cruz Bay, Tenerife.
1781
HMS Resource(28), Cptn. Bartholomew Rowley, took Licorne, former Unicorn, (28) off Cape Blaize.
1796
US Congress authorizes completion of 3 frigates.
HMS Indefatigable (44), Sir Edward Pellew, captured French frigate Virginie(40), Cptn. Jacques Bergeret, off the Lizard
HMS Inconstant (36) captured Unite (36) in the Mediterranean. The Unite was taken into the Royal Navy as HMS Surprise made famous by the Patrick O'Brian series about Jack Aubrey.
1805
HMS Renard(18), Cdr. Jeremiah Coghlan, engaged privateer General Ernouf (16), Paul Gerard Pointe, which caught fire and blew up in the West Indies
1808
HMS Widgeon (8), Lt. George Elliot (2), driven ashore on the Scottish coast and wrecked.
1809
HMS Alemene (32), W. Henry Tremlett, wrecked on a shoal at the mouth of the Loire.
1810
Boats of HMS Firm (12), Lt. John Little, HMS Surly (10), Lt. Richard Welch, and HMS Sharpshooter (14), Lt. John Goldie, cut out privateer Alcide (4) from the mouth of the Piron where she had run ashore.
1814
HMS Orpheus(36), Cptn. Hugh Pigot, and HMS Shelburne (12), Lt. David Hope, captured USS sloop Frolic (22), Joseph Bainbridge, off Matanzas Point, Cuba
1861
Norfolk Navy Yard abandoned and burned by Union forces.
21 April
1770
HMS Endeavour, Lt. James Cook, arrived Point Hicks, Australia.
1798
HMS Mars(74), Cptn. Alexander Hood, captured French Hercule (74)
1800
HMS Lark (16), Lt. Hugh Cook, engaged a French privateer.
1806
HMS Tremendous (74) and HMS Hindostan (50) engaged Canonniere (50)
1822
HMS Confiance Sloop (18), Wm.Thomas Morgan, wrecked between Moyin Head and Three Castle Head, Crookhaven.
1861
USS Saratoga (22) captures slaver Nightingale off Cabinda.
22 April
1676
Battle of Augusta. A French fleet of 29 men-of-war, 5 frigates and 8 fireships under Abraham Duquesne engaged 17 Dutch and 10 Spanish ships plus 5 fireships under Lieutenant-Admiral-General Michiel de Ruyter. The battle was a short but intense affair and ended abruptly when Duquesne, after hearing that De Ruyter had been mortally wounded, retreated. Neither side lost a ship, though there were many dead and wounded, especially among the Dutch.
1778
Captain John Paul Jones of Ranger leads landing party raid on Whitehaven, England
1786
HMS Cyrus armed transport (10), A Davidson, lost at Barbados
1808
HMS Goree (18), Joseph Spear, engaged French brigs Pilade and Palinure in Grande Bourg Bay at Marie Galante.
HMS Bermuda Sloop (18), William Henry Byam, wrecked on Memory Rock, Little Bahama Bank.
1854
Odessa reconnoitred by HMS Samson paddle steamer (6), Cptn. Lewis Tobias Jones, and HMS Terrible paddle steamer (19), Cptn. James Johnstone McCleverty.
1813
HMS Weazle (18), Cdr. James Black, destroyed 14 French vessels at Bossolina (or Boscaline) Bay
23 April
1598
Maarten Harpertszoon Tromp born
1697
George Anson born
1782
HMS Queen (98), Cptn. Maitland, took Actionnaire (64 flute)
1794
HMS Arethusa (38), Cptn. Sir Edward Pellew, and HMS Flora (36), Cptn. Sir John B. Warren, captured French Pomone (44) and Babet (22) off Guernsey. The rest of the squadron, HMS Melampus (36), HMS Nymphe (36),and HMS Concorde (36), Cptn. Sir Richard Strachan, captured Engageante (38) but Résolue escaped.
1797
HMS Magicienne (32), Cptn. William Henry Ricketts, HMS Regulus (44), and HMS Fortune (14), took a sloop (6) and four schooners and drove off an attacking force at Careasse Bay, Haiti.
1804
Cuthbert Collingwood promoted to Rear-Admiral.
1805
HMS Gallant (14). Lt. Thomas Shirley, and consorts captured eight gun-vessels off Cap Gris Nez.
1809
HMS Spartan (38), Cptn. Jahleel Brenton, HMS Amphion (32), Cptn. William Hoste, and HMS Mercury (28), Cptn. Henry Duncan, bombarded Pesaro, took 13 vessels and destroyed a castle.
24 April
1753
HMS Assurance (44), Cptn. Carr Scrope, wrecked on the Needles
1778
John Paul Jones in Continental Navy sloop Ranger (18) captures HMS Drake (20), off Carrickfergus, Ireland.
King George visited Chatham and Sheerness.
1797
HMS Albion (74) wrecked off Swin
1798
HMS Pearl (32) engaged two French frigates Vertu, Charles René Magon de Médine, and Régénérée escorting a convoy of two Spanish ships of the line back to Europe.
1808
HMS Grasshopper (18), Thomas Searle, and HMS Rapid (14), Lt. Henry Baugh, captured two merchantmen and two escorting gunboats and drove two gunboats ashore at Faro.
1813
Boats of HMS Apollo (38), Cptn. Bridges W. Taylor, captured a felucca at S. Cataldo, near Brindisi
1862
Battle of New Orleans; Union Navy under David Farragut runs past forts into Mississippi River
25 April
1725
Augustus Keppel born
1796
HMS Agamemnon (64), Cptn. Horatio Nelson, and squadron captured French vessels at Finale.
1800
HMS Lark (16), J. H. Wilson, captured French privateer cutter Impregnable (14) which had run ashore on Vlie Island
1805
HMS Archer (14), Lt. William price, captured two gun-vessels off Cap Gris Nez.
1806
HMS Pallas (32), Cptn. Lord Cochrane, reconnoitred Isle of Aix.
1808
HMS Forward (14), Lt. Sheils, towed in boats of consorts and captured ten sail at Flodstrand.
1810
HMS Spartan (38), Capt. Jahleel Brenton, HMS Success (32), Cptn. John Ayscough, and HMS Espoir (18), Robert Mitford, engaged batteries and took 4 vessels at Monte Circello.
1811
3 Danish gunboats, under Sub Lt. Christen F. Klinck, engage at Kongshavn near Uddevalla, Sweden the British cutters The Swan and Hero. The Swan is captured.
1845
HMS Skylark (10), Lt. George Morris, wrecked on the Kimmeridge Ledge on the Dorset coast
1862
Union naval forces occupy New Orleans, LA
26 April
1706
Relief of Barcelona by British.
1797
HMS Irresistible (74), Cptn George Martin, and HMS Emerald (36), Cptn. Jacob Waller, captured Spanish frigates Elena (36) and Nimfa (36) in Conil Bay, near Cape Trafalgar. Elena ran ashore and was got off but was so damaged that she had to be destroyed.
1809
HMS Thrasher gun-brig engaged Flotilla near Boulogne.
27 April
1796
HMS Niger (33), Cptn. Edward J. Foote, and boats destroyed Eaireuil.
1805
US Naval forces capture Derne, Tripoli
1811
The monument to the memory of Lord Nelson, in Guildhall, opened for public inspection.
28 April
1758
HMS Tryton (24), Cptn. Thomas Manning, and HMS Bridgewater (24), Cptn. John Stanton, run ashore burnt on the Coromandel Coast to avoid capture by French Squadron under Comte d'Aché.
1789
Mutiny aboard HMAV Bounty (William Bligh) in the Pacific
1810
HMS Sylvia cutter (12), Lt. Augustus Vere Drury, captured Dutch gun-brig Echo (8) in Straits of Sundra
29 April
1744
HMS Dreadnought (60), Cptn. Hon. Edward Boscawen, and HMS Grampus (14), Cptn. Gordon, captured French frigate Medea (26), Cptn. Hoquart, in the Channel
1758
The naval Battle of Cuddalore. Indecisive battle between a British squadron under Vice-Admiral George Pocock and French squadron under Comte d'Aché.
HMS London (6) wrecked in Senegal river
1781
British Fleet under Samuel Hood engaged a French fleet under De Grasse off Martinique.
1807
Boats of HMS Richmond (14), Lt. S. S. Heming, captured Spanish privateer lugger Gaillard.
1808
Boats of HMS Falcon (14), Lt. John Price (act. Cdr.), destroyed 14 Danish boats in the islands of Endelau and Thuno at the northern end of the Great Belt.
1809
HMS Alcmene (32), Cptn. William Henry Brown Tremlett, while chasing an enemy, was wrecked on a reef of rocks near the Loire.
1812
Boats of HMS Leviathan (74), Cptn. Patrick Campbell, and HMS Undaunted (38) captured 5 vessels.
1813
Start of 7 day deployment of boats of HMS Marlborough (74), Cptn. C. B. Ross, and consorts in Chesapeake Bay.
HMS Elizabeth (74) and HMS Eagle (74) captured five and destroyed two of a convoy of seven armed merchant vessels laden with oil off Goro.
1814
USS Peacock (22) captures HMS Epervier (18)
30 April
1796
HMS Agamemnon (64), Cptn. Horatio Nelson, and squadron captured six vessels at Oneglia.
1797
HMS Indefatigable (44), Sir Edward Pellew, & others captured French privateer brig La Basque (8) in the Channel
1815
HMS Rivoli (74) captured Melpomene off Ischia.
Mar
*Dates of events prior to September 1752 may be quoted differently in some countries as both the Julian and Gregorian calendars were in use by countries. Calendars were regularised when Britain passed the Calendar Act of 1751 An Act for Regulating the Commencement of the Year; and for Correcting the Calendar now in Use.