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What happened with the months?
September - prefix means "7" but its the 9th month
October - prefix is "8" ...10th month
November - prefix is "9"...11th month
December - prefix is "10"... 12th month
What's up with that?
I assume they added a few months over time, but assumedly we had only 10 months previously? Why the change?
3 Answers
- ?Lv 78 years agoFavorite Answer
Julius Caesar fancied a moth so he got July;
Augustus fancied a month so he got August. This pushed the other months a month ahead. You'll notice that they nicked the best two.
- ichliebekiraLv 58 years ago
September actually was the seventh month of the Roman calendar until 46 BC, when January and February were added as a division of a monthless winter period and the first month changed from March to January.
Source(s): Wikipedia entries on September, October and December. - Anonymous8 years ago
I think it had to do with how two or three Roman emperors decided to make months and name them after themselves. They were..... charismatic like that. :P
Source(s): Faint memories from Latin and World History classes
