"This Tuesday past"
We finally decided to look into the theory that Anna's Frozen Fever-birthday happened on a Tuesday, as suggested by these “news articles” found on bulletin boards near the Frozen attractions at EPCOT and Disneyland Paris.
We all know Anna was born on the summer solstice sometime in the early 1800s. The summer solstice in Norway alternates between June 20th-22nd, meaning there are several possible candidates for the date of Anna’s birthday.
We consulted the sites https://www.rocketcalendar.com/ and https://www.timeanddate.com/ to obtain data for calendar dates and solstice dates for Norway (Oslo) in the the early to mid-1800s.
Solstice and equinox data from timeanddate.com
We then set the condition of wanting either the 21st or the 22nd day of June (Frozen Fever) to be a Tuesday and matched this with the date of the summer solstice 19 years earlier. For the sake of convenience, we chose to limit the analysis to the years 1840-1859. This resulted in the following table:
As you can see, there are a few matches but unfortunately not as many as we had hoped. When a leap year happens, the calendar days get pushed forward two dates instead of one, causing June 21st to “miss” a Tuesday at one occasion (1848).
There are still four instances in the 1840s and 50s when the date for a Tuesday on June 21st or 22nd match with the date of a summer solstice 19 years earlier: in 1841, 1853, 1858 and 1859 (and likely a few more in the following decades).
1841 gets disqualified because it does not add up with the timeline established in Frozen II, where the shipwreck map indicates Agnarr and Iduna’s voyage could not have happened before 1840, meaning Frozen Fever must take place in 1844 or later.
The other three dates are possible candidates. Only downside being they do not take place in the 1840s.
Calendars from rocketcalendar.com
Is this "news article" from the Southern Isles Gazette trustworthy? Because of how much the only possible years for Frozen Fever deviates from the established idea that "Frozen takes place in the 1840s", we would say details like these found in the Disney parks or elsewhere that are most likely written without the supervision of the filmmakers should probably not be interpreted as "truths" straight away. They can be fun details when they work with and complement the established Frozen-timeline. When they don't work they're instead an annoyance for us fans who wish the world of Frozen was one cohesive universe with greater attention to the little details.
We will return shortly and analyse a similar matter concerning the calendar featured in the anthology-book A Year with Elsa & Anna.
