I heard the months are not in order?

Question

someone told me the months are not in order and that Shakespear wrote some the bible and they removed 2 months they were called Quientious and sectenious and they were replace by August and July for Julious and Agusta Ceasar> true?

Answer 1

They aren't in order, just listen to the roots of the words. sept means 7, yet September is the ninth month, oct means 8, nov means 9 and dec means 10. None of these months are in the correct spot, there used to be a ten month calander util July and August were added, thank God they were, I don't know what I'd do w/o these summer months lol.

Answer 2

Shakespeare never wrote any of the Bible. wtf?

The months are in order, but I'll give you an explanation. Have you noticed that the months after August are "September, October, November, December"?

There used to be 10 months on the calendar, and two were added-- one for Julius Caesar (July) and one for Augustus Caesar (August). September used to be the seventh month, and you can tell by the prefix.

Number prefixes are as follows:
Sept: Seven
Octo: Eight
Nona (No): Nine
Deca (Dec): Ten.

Therefore, SEPTember was the seventh month, OCTOber was the eighth, NOvember was the ninth, and DECember was the tenth. July and August were added to even out the calendar and fix some mistakes that made the seasons inaccurate.

Answer 3

Shakespear did not write any of the bible.

August and July from Agusta and Julious Ceasar is true.

Answer 4

I think it's a little true. look at september, october november and december..
7,8, 9 10...even though december is now the 12th month of the year. but I heard they added July and August for Julious and Augustus cesar

Answer 5

You are partially correct. September, October, November and December are months seven, eight, nine and ten (a quick study of Latin will tell you that).

'July' is for Julius
The Roman Senate named the month of July after Julius Caesar to honor him for reforming their calendar, which had degenerated into a chaotic embarrassment. Bad calculations caused the months to drift wildly across the seasons—January, for example, had begun to fall in the autumn.

The high priest in charge of the calendar, the pontifex maximus, had become so corrupt that he sometimes lengthened the year to keep certain officials in office or abbreviated it to shorten an enemy's tenure.

Effective January 1, 45 B.C.

The new calendar went into effect on the first day of January 709 A.U.C. (ab urbe condita—"from the founding of the city [Rome]")—January 1, 45 B.C.—and put an end to the arbitrary and inaccurate nature of the early Roman system. The Julian calendar became the predominant calendar throughout Europe for the next 1600 years until Pope Gregory made further reforms in 1582.

Certain countries and institutions in fact adhered to this ancient system until well into the twentieth century: the Julian calendar was used in Russia until 1917 and in China until 1949, and to this day the Eastern Orthodox church adheres to Caesar's calendar.

The month Julius replaced Quintilis (quintus = five)—the fifth month in the early Roman calendar, which began with March before the Julian calendar instituted January as the start of the year. Unfortunately, Caesar himself was only able to enjoy one July during his life—the very first July, in 45 B.C. The following year he was murdered on the Ides of March.

Augustus for 'August'

After Julius's grandnephew Augustus defeated Marc Antony and Cleopatra, and became emperor of Rome, the Roman Senate decided that he too should have a month named after him. The month Sextillus (sex = six) was chosen for Augustus, and the senate justified its actions in the following resolution:

Whereas the Emperor Augustus Caesar, in the month of Sextillis . . . thrice entered the city in triumph . . . and in the same month Egypt was brought under the authority of the Roman people, and in the same month an end was put to the civil wars; and whereas for these reasons the said month is, and has been, most fortunate to this empire, it is hereby decreed by the senate that the said month shall be called Augustus.

Not only did the Senate name a month after Augustus, but it decided that since Julius's month, July, had 31 days, Augustus's month should equal it: under the Julian calendar, the months alternated evenly between 30 and 31 days (with the exception of February), which made August 30 days long. So, instead of August having a mere 30 days, it was lengthened to 31, preventing anyone from claiming that Emperor Augustus was saddled with an inferior month.

To accommodate this change two other calendrical adjustments were necessary:

The extra day needed to inflate the importance of August was taken from February, which originally had 29 days (30 in a leap year), and was now reduced to 28 days (29 in a leap year).

Since the months evenly alternated between 30 and 31 days, adding the extra day to August meant that July, August, and September would all have 31 days. So to avoid three long months in a row, the lengths of the last four months were switched around, giving us 30 days in September, April, June, and November.

Among Roman rulers, only Julius and Augustus permanently had months named after them—though this wasn't for lack of trying on the part of later emperors. For a time, May was changed to Claudius and the infamous Nero instituted Neronius for April. But these changes were ephemeral, and only Julius and Augustus have had two-millenia-worth of staying power.

Answer 6

I've never heard the Shakespear thing...but the months yes, if you know basic Latin it's easy to tell October comes from a word that means eight, and December comes from a word that means 10, and they're obviously not the eighth and tenth months.

Answer 7

First of all, Shakespeare did not write a single line of the Bible.
Second of all, the Catholic church changed the names (not the order of) the months, from their pagan names to 'Christianized' names, and some in honer of their Roman Caesar predecessors. The 'popes' titles are the same as the Caesars titles because the pope is the continuation of the line of the Caesars. The Roman Empire is not dead, it lives on in the Roman Catholic church.

Answer 8

I don't know..I'm sorry. Look it up online. You could try to type Shakespear in www.wikipedia.org and see if it tells you anything. But, I think you are right about how July and August were named. I would like to know too. Good luck!

Answer 9

A reason why the birth of Jesus got to fall on December where the event did not show snow and animals can still roam in the night.

Answer 10

For the last time Shakespeare did not write any of the Bible, you are mistaken lol.

And no, he didn't have anything to do with the months of the year.