The regnal calendar ("nth year of the reign of King X", abbreviated to "n X", etc.)
For centuries, English official public documents have been dated according to the regnal years of the ruling monarch.
c. 6" (read as "the sixth chapter of the statute of the parliamentary session that sat in the 10th year of the reign of Queen Anne").
In the event of a second session or a second Parliament in the same regnal year, the chapter numbering would reset.
[3] The 1750 Act reforming the legal year also officially introduced to England the Gregorian calendar on Thursday 14 September 1752.
The dates in the table below follow the English calendar (OS until 1752, NS thereafter).
The following table gives the dates of the regnal years for Kings of England (and subsequently Great Britain), from 1066 to the present day.
Finally – for the regnal year of William III after Mary's death (that is, from 28 December 1694 onwards) – one also adds 6.