2007-10-17 00:46:17 · 8 answers · asked by David A 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Homework Help
The calendar originally started in March at the time of equinox - when sun rays on the northward journey fall perpendicular on the equator. So September was seventh month, October eighth and December tenth. The Hindu and Persian calendars still start in March with advent of spring. The Persian calendar begins exactly on 21st of March. At the time of equinox.
Months like July were added later on by different monarchs at different times thus making the year beginning quite unscientific.
2007-10-17 00:54:49 · answer #1 · answered by masoodrezvi 1 · 2⤊ 1⤋
The ancient Roman year used to start on March 1, at which point September and October were the seventh and eighth months.
July used to be called 'Quinctilis', which means the fifth month, and August used to be called 'Sextilis', which means the sixth. They were renamed July and August in honour of Julius Caesar and the emperor Augustus.
In England the new year used to start on March 25, which is the feast of the Annunciation. We only started using January 1 as the first day of the new year in 1752, which was when we switched from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar.
2007-10-17 08:07:17 · answer #2 · answered by booklady 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Originally, the Roman calendar began with March. January and February were added later. As I understand it, the winter period was not considered important enough to be organized into months! (Maybe someone else has more info on this.) Also, the names of the months of July and August were eventually changed to honor Julius Caesar and Augustus Caesar. They originally had names that referred to them as "fifth" and "sixth".
2007-10-17 07:53:04 · answer #3 · answered by domangelo 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Before Roman times, September, October, November and December were actually the 7th, 8th, 9th and 10th months of the year.
Julius Caesar added the month of July in his honour, moving the last 4 months back by 4 weeks.
Then Augustus Caesar added August in his honour, pushing the calendar back by a further 4 weeks.
The Romans tended to do that sort of thing...
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2007-10-17 07:59:30 · answer #4 · answered by Nightworks 7 · 1⤊ 3⤋
November is nine and December is 10. Originally there were 10 months, but Julius Caesar added July and Augustus Caesar added August, or something like that. Someone did.
2007-10-17 07:51:28 · answer #5 · answered by mormon_4_jesus 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
When the calendar got changed from Jillian to Georgian it lost 11 days thus those months moved up the list a bit.
2007-10-17 07:51:02 · answer #6 · answered by martys34uk 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
when the calendar changed from the roman to gregorian which is what we use no oct became the tenth month and sept the nineth previously sept was the sevth month and oct the eigth
2007-10-17 07:50:40 · answer #7 · answered by jojo 4 · 0⤊ 4⤋
they used to be 7&8th month but it didnt work out
so they added july and august i think
2007-10-17 07:56:40 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋