August is the 8th month though.
Blame Caesar, October used to be the 8th month before those damn Romans changed things.
Well it’s not his fault he died…
I’m not sure if this is a joke, but it sort of is.
Something something ides of march
That’s just not true though. The months were named Quintilis and Sextilis, they were renamed and not added. The start of the year used to be in March, changing it to January is what fucked it all up
So you’re saying the romans didn’t change the name of the 10th month to October, but instead changed the 8th month named October to be the 10th month?
Fun fact!
That’s actually way closer to today! In England, the change occured in 1752
So in England (specifically England – it was different in other places) the 24th of March 1750 was followed by the 25th of March 1751, but 1751 ended on 31st of December 1751 & 1752 was the first year beginning on the 1st of January. 1751 only lasted for 282 days
England was extremely late to the change though, about ~170 years after the gregorian reforms to the calendar. For the rest of Europe, before the gregorian reforms, new year was not always noted in March either, there was no common agreement on the start of the year & it changed regionally. It all became standardized around January mid 16th century
I think that was a post-Rome change that later got changed back again.
Before the 5th century/fall of Rome it was January, and we had a 1200 year long flight of fancy with March new years before finally returning to the January start the Romans picked for us.
Generally yes, but even during the empire some religious new year celebrations still happened during the middle of March
We’ll always have December
That’s called foreshadowing.
