'Past' Forward

The people of Turkey went to bed in the year 1344, and when they woke up it was 1926 -- but they were alive and well. On December 31, 1925, Turkey was going by its old calendar, which adopted the Julian months but kept the Muslim era. The government ordered a complete change to the Christian era that night, so when Turks awoke the morning after, they had grown 582 years older.