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View of a quay in Venice, anonymous, ca. 1700 - ca. 1710 - (Rijksmuseum)

Until 1797, the beginning of the year in the Serenissima followed an older course than the Gregorian calendar, which was closer to the lunar cycle and began on 1 March, when there were ten months instead of twelve.

The calendar used in the Republic of the Serenissima until 1797 corresponded to the older Roman calendar where March was the first month of the year - only later replaced by January - and with it its first day marked the new year.In the words of Andrea Da Mosto, former Director of the State Archives of Venice, in 1937 he wrote:Public deeds, as is well known, are dated more veneto, i.e. according to the Venetian calendar, which made the year begin on 1 March, except for those destined for foreign countries, which followed the common style. It is unclear how the oldest notarial documents were da

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