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It was a very busy Century, so they had to extend it.
Welcome to the forum.
I like the idea of knocking a century through to provide an extension. I imagine that something like that must have happened with the Hundred Years’ War.
The idea is no dafter than a suggestion reportedly made by a senior MoD civil servant at a meeting in Main Building a few years ago. A heated discussion was under way about problems of electro-magnetic compatibility (EMC), what with radars, electronic countermeasures, radio-controlled drones and IEDs, and frequency-hopping radars all making their claims for different parts of the elctro-magnetic (E-M) spectrum. A senior officer said in exasperation “The trouble is, the bloody E-M spectrum just isn’t big enough”. At which the senior civil servant, presumably having a classics or humanities background, asked “Why can’t we open another one?”
I understand that the meeting ended shortly after the stunned silence that followed.
All the best,
John.
Caesar extended a year, I like the idea that the Victorians took it up a notch.
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