There’s a bizarre reason why 10 days are missing from October 1582

It’s a fascinating tale (Picture: Getty)We’ve all scrolled back through the calendars on our phones to look up interesting dates.It’s one way to find out which day of the week you were born, for example, or just to double check the dates of past events.But if you scroll back far enough – and we mean really, really far – you’ll come across something a bit unusual.October 1582 isn’t exactly a year which went down in history. It certainly doesn’t hav