when did we start to call the months by names? and who were the one that started?

Question

like january, february, march..etc...???who were the one thta started first? what year was it in? please help

Answer 1

Hey Billy,

I think this article will answer your questions, I do not want to cut and paste the whole thing here, but here is the first part:

"Before today's Gegorian calendar was adopted, the older Julian calendar was used. It was admirably close to the actual length of the year, as it turns out, but the Julian calendar was not so perfect that it didn't slowly shift off track over the following centuries. But, hundreds of years later, monks were the only ones with any free time for scholarly pursuits -- and they were discouraged from thinking about the matter of "secular time" for any reason beyond figuring out when to observe Easter. In the Middle Ages, the study of the measure of time was first viewed as prying too deeply into God's own affairs -- and later thought of as a lowly, mechanical study, unworthy of serious contemplation.

As a result, it wasn't until 1582, by which time Caesar's calendar had drifted a full 10 days off course, that Pope Gregory finally reformed the Julian calendar. Ironically, by the time the Catholic church buckled under the weight of the scientific reasoning that pointed out the error, it had lost much of its power to implement the fix. Protestant tract writers responded to Gregory's calendar by calling him the "Roman Antichrist" and claiming that its real purpose was to keep true Christians from worshiping on the correct days. The "new" calendar, as we know it today, was not adopted uniformly across Europe until well into the 18th century.

Here are a few more historical aspects of our calendar...."

Answer 2

This system was created by the Romans. Several months were named after gods such as January (Janus) and March (Mars, God of War), some were named by prominient people after themselves: August after the Emporer Augustus and July after Julius Caesar. The latter months were based on Roman numbers: September (Sept=7), October (Oct=8), November (Nov=9), December (Dec=10)

Answer 3

Actually it was approximately 32,000 B.C. and at the beginning there were only FOUR months of about 120 days each:

1) Hot time when skin turns red and peels off

2) Warm-Cool time when trees take off clothes

3) Cold time when those with few skins in cave turn hard and stiff

4) Cool-Warm time when hard water disappears and animals make much sex