diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 80a8b051d7..390934f9bc 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -92,6 +92,7 @@
     Feature #7284: Searching in the console with regex and toggleable case-sensitivity 
     Feature #7477: NegativeLight Magic Effect flag
     Feature #7499: OpenMW-CS: Generate record filters by drag & dropping cell content to the filters field
+    Feature #7546: Start the game on Fredas
     Task #5896: Do not use deprecated MyGUI properties
     Task #7113: Move from std::atoi to std::from_char
     Task #7117: Replace boost::scoped_array with std::vector
diff --git a/files/data-mw/openmw_aux/calendarconfig.lua b/files/data-mw/openmw_aux/calendarconfig.lua
index 6ac6a5bffd..7ad98a4b6b 100644
--- a/files/data-mw/openmw_aux/calendarconfig.lua
+++ b/files/data-mw/openmw_aux/calendarconfig.lua
@@ -3,5 +3,6 @@ return {
     daysInWeek = 7,
     startingYear = 427,
     startingYearDay = 227,
-    startingWeekDay = 1,
+    -- Friday, calculated from TES2 and TES4's starting week days (see #7546)
+    startingWeekDay = 5,
 }