Answered: The deaths of writers Miguel de Cervantes and William Shakespeare were recorded on the same date: April 23, 1616—but that wasn’t the same day. How is that possible?
The Microsoft Bing Trivial Quiz is: The deaths of writers Miguel de Cervantes and William Shakespeare were recorded on the same date: April 23, 1616—but that wasn’t the same day. How is that possible?
The options given are listed below:
- A Records from the period are unreliable
- B They were separated by the international date line
- C They used different calendars
The correct answer for this bing home quiz is They used different calendars.
While Cervantes and Shakespeare are both said to have died on April 23, 1616, the Spanish writer actually died 10 days before the English one. That’s because Spain had already adopted the new Gregorian calendar while England still used the Julian calendar. Britain adopted the Gregorian calendar in 1752.
