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The calender month of August on virtualtripping it’s history is explained.
By Mark on August 23, 2010
When I do posts it is fascinating what you can do on this site and thanks to Wikipedia, I have decide to write about the month of August. So what have I learn’t about this month, well it is the eighth month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with a length of 31 days. The modern day calendar are like these on Flickr.
This is a picture of a Gregorian Calendar on flickr.
Depending in which part of the world you live in, this month is either summer in the north or winter in the south, mainly. When the original ten-month Roman calendar was made under Romulus in 753 BC, this calender started in March to December, August back then was known in latin as Sextilis, this was because it became the sixth month on this calender.
This is a picture of Roman Calendar on flickr.
It was around 700BC, went August became the eighth month, when when January and February were added to the year before March by King Numa Pompilius, who also gave it 29 days. Then when Julius Caesar became Emperor of Rome, he then added two days when he created the Julian calendar in 45 BC giving it its modern length of 31 days. Then in the year of 8 BC the was then renamed in honor of Emperor Augustus, who did not take a day from February. He chose this month to take his name rather than his birth month – which was traditional – as a mark of honour to the defeated Queen Cleopatra the last ruler of Egypt, this being her birth month. And for all you pub quizzers out there, did you know that in todays calender there is no other month that starts on the same day of the week as August, though in leap years February starts on the same day.
- Learn about August on Wikipedia:
- Learn about Month on Wikipedia:
- Learn about Calenders on Wikipedia:
- Learn about the Roman Calender on Wikipedia:
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