CALENDAR AND TIMES (JULY IS NOT THE 7TH MONTH)

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 Actually, September is the 7th month not July.

December is the 10th and not 12th.
The prefix 'Sept' means Seven. E.g. Septagon is a polygon with 7 sides. A conversation between 7 people is known as Septalogue. Septuage. A 70-year old man is called a Septuagenarian.
Alright.
Oct means 8. For instance, A poem with 8 stanzas is called Octave. In chemistry, a straight chain alkane with 8 carbon atoms is called Octane.
We all know that Dec implies 10. Decade, Decimal, Decameter, Decagon.
But why is the calendar showing July as the 7th month and September shifted to the 9th month?
Why is December not the 10th month on the calendar? How come?
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The calendar we use today is a reformation of the ancient Roman Calendar.
The ancient Roman calendar consist of 12 months, and the first is March. It was taken as the first month because that's when military action resumes after the long winter.
April, May and June were the 2nd, 3rd and 4th respectively.
The 5th was called Quintilis and the 6th is Sextilis.
September = 7th month, October = 8th, November = 9th and December was the 10th.
January and February were the 11th and 12th months.
The months of January and February were mainly months of reflection, cleansing and reduced activities owing to winter.
However, when Julius Caesar came to power, he reformed the Roman Calendar to align with earth's revolution around the sun.
He pegged one earth's revolution to be 365.25 days. He introduced the concept of leap year and brought January and February to the front. The number of days a month should have was decided also.
With these changes, some month's name no longer reflect their normal positions on the calendar.
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After the death of Julius Caesar, Quintilis was renamed July in his honour in 44 BC. Also, Sextilis was renamed August in honour of Augustus Caesar, the first Roman Emperor, in 8 BC.
This became the Julian Calendar.
Okay.
In 1582, Pope Gregory XIII updated the Julian calendar by adjusting the year to be 365.2425 days. This upgrade means we can easily get the exact timing of Soltices and Equinoxes, and also calculate Easter Day.
The Gregorian calendar is almost perfect scientifically.
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Thank you for reading through.
The month of July is a good time to remember that men are the ones that calibrated time, assigned months and manufactured zodaic speculations. In the beginning, it was not so.
Have a beautiful July.

Authored by Ifeanyi Eze

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