Excerpt from American Almanac and Treasury of Facts, Statistical, Financial, and Political, for the Year 1885: Compiled From Official Sources October 12th, Old Style. Opposite Century 15, Old Style, and over 92 in black letter (it being leap year.) is Monday. Therefore, October 8th was Monday; and the line 0! Week-days in which Monday falls under October (which is the sixth.) with the days 0! The month above, constitute the entire Calendar for October. 1492, Old Style. And the i2th. As seen, falls on Friday. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.