Had A Different Birthday
You might be surprised to hear that he was not born on February 22, 1732 but February 11, 1731! The former was what most people believe, right? The reason is that upon his birth, England had still been using the Julian calendar that Julius Caesar established in 46 BC. That calendar said that his birthday was February 11, 1731. In 1752, England decided to start using the Gregorian calendar. In this calendar, he was actually born on February 22, 1731! This is the reason it is the date you learned in school.
Had A Different Birthday
A French Citizenship
After he established an amicable political and personal relationship with France in the Revolutionary War, Washington received an honorary citizenship from France in 1792. He neither spoke French or stepped foot in the country, but he still received this honor. During the French Revolution, he and others started to distance themselves from the country. They even made it clear that they did not want to be associated with the executions and other horrors that had been taking place in France in those days.
A French Citizenship
