why is September on The ninth month,not the 7 th month and October is not on The 8th month?

Answer 1

Two months were added in, a long time ago, but I'm forgetting now which months were added. :( Might be two of the Roman emperors who wanted a month named after themselves (e.g. July, August), if I'm remembering correctly...

Answer 2

The origins of the calendar months go back to the time of the ancient Romans. The names are Latin in origin, some in honor of famous people and some according to the order in which the months occur. This last method of naming has left us with a rather curious result: September, October, November, and December are the 9th, 10th, 11th, and 12th months but their names come from the Latin words meaning 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th. This happened because at one time the Roman calendar had only 10 months and began with March. Around 700 B.C., the calendar was reformed and two months added at the beginning of the year, January and February. January is named after the god Janus, who had two faces and looked two ways at once: backwards to the old year and forwards to the new. Another god, Februus, gave us the name for February.

Answer 3

Two Roman Emperors needed months named after themselves; July for Julius Caesar and August for Augustus Caesar. So additional months were created and sandwiched into the calendar before the seventh month, turning the seventh month into the ninth month! Of course months named for Emperors should fall during the nicest time of the year! And the number of days in the original 10 months were shortened to accommodate the extra two months. I think Julius Caesar also decided his month should be 1 day longer than Augustus' month, so July has 31 days, while August has 30.

Answer 4

To best understand this, I highly recommend skimming through the link below.

However, in a quick summary, here's the reason why.

The current Calender is a very subtle change to the original Gregorian calender, which has the well-known 12 months:

1)January
2)February
3)March
4)April
5)May
6)June
7)July
8)August
9)September
10)October
11)November
12)December

This Gregorian calender is the successor to the Julian Calender, which had the following months:

1)Ianuarius
2)Februarius
3)Martius
4)Aprilis
5)Maius
6)Iunius
7)Quintilis
8)Sextilis
9)September
10)October
11)November
12)December

The Julian came from the Roman Calender, which had the FOLLOWING months:


1)Martius
2)Aprilis
3)Maius
4)Iunius
5)Quintilis
6)Sextilis
7)September
8)October
9)November
10)December
11)Ianuarius
12)Februarius

Which stems from the, supposed, original Lunar calender, which more closely follows what we would expect the months to be, from their names:


1)Martius
2)Aprilis
3)Maius
4)Iunius
5)Quintilis
6)Sextilis
7)September
8)October
9)November
10)December

Now, this represents the evolution of a calender. Almost every calender is created from a desire to track religious and theological events. In this case, our current calender was created to track the Moon and Sun, two commonly worshiped objects.

As time progresses, and the standard by which these theological calenders is proven to be imperfect, sectarian changes are made to be more precise. The Lunar calender doesn't track the seasons well, at all. Over a given time span, September moves throughout the seasons, sometimes being in Summer, sometimes in Winter. Hence, changes are made, months are added, and the Calender evolves.

Answer 5

Earlier March was supposed first month and based on it September(7th) October (8th) November (9th) and December(10th). Then calender was standardized to be from January so a difference of 2

Answer 6

Know the basics of astronomy. Humans make mistakes. So those days Romans also mad a mistake saying
that 10 months make a calender year. Unforfunately 365 days make a year as per calculations. To rectify this they had to introduce two months. So names after Julieus and Augustus ceasers were introduced as seventh and eighth month.
If u want more information
read names of the month July and August and Astronomy
on net.

Answer 7

Well observed!

September and October do come from the Latin words for "seven" and "eight".

The reason they have been pushed forward ...twice!... was to make room for July, in honor of Julius Caesar, and August, for... you guessed it...Augustus Caesar.

Precisely how the annual calendar was re-arranged to make all this possible, I can't say, but I'm sure the answer is out there on the net somewhere!

Answer 8

In Roman times there were ten months, with 'Sept'ember being the 7th, 'oct'ober the eighth, and 'nov'ember and 'dec'ember the 9th and 10th.

Then Julius Caesar decided he wanted a month named after him. And one after his nephew Augustus too. For some reason they decided to stick these new months (July and August) in the middle of the year, pushing the later months two places back, and confusing people who know a bit of latin ever since.

Answer 9

once upon a time it was the seventh month on the Roman calendar. The Romans only had a ten month calendar, then they added in July for Julius Ceasar and August for Augustus Ceasar. Thus the last 4 months are out of order as their names suggest.

Answer 10

The old calendar was absent a couple of months. October was the old 8th month, now, plus two, it's the tenth. Greek or Roman additions or some stuff.... Sept would be 7th and so on.

Answer 11

January and February were added to the Roman Calendar in the 7th century B.C., but the year still began in March until about 200 B.C. when the year changed to start in January. July and August were not added they were formerly named Quintilis and Sextilis and their names were changed in honor of Julius Caesar and Augustus Caesar.