It’s interesting to me just how many things that we do or take for granted were designed in the distant past. The calendar, for one. The names of the months were all conceived thousands of years ago. During the reign of Julius Caesar, his astronomers told him that the year needed to be 12, rather than 10, months.
So January and February were added to the calendar, and the fifth and sixth months of the year were renamed July and August, after Julius and Augustus Caesar. Both months were given 31 days to stress their importance. All of this took place over 2000 years ago. We’ve been using the same calendar—with some tweaks—ever since.
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