The Phantom Time Hypothesis
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like the 1752 calendar shift that just deleted eleven days from british history.
If the fabrication was restricted to the Holy Roman Empire's sphere of influence, global coordination might not have been necessary. It is possible that historians just reconciled conflicting regional dates into one convenient narrative.
The claim about Charlemagne being fictional ignores dendrochronological evidence. Tree ring sequences from that era provide an unbroken timeline that does not support a 300 year gap.
Which specific dendrochronology datasets prove the sequence is unbroken? I am curious if the data is global or limited to a few European forests.
It is encouraging that these theories bring more people to the primary sources. Digitizing medieval archives makes it possible for anyone to hunt for the gaps themselves.
But what about the calendars outside of Europe... like the Maya or the Tang Dynasty... would they have had to fake their records too?
The hypothesis gains traction because of the mathematical discrepancy in the Julian calendar. The transition to the Gregorian calendar in 1582 corrected a drift that some argue is inconsistent with the established timeline.