Our Calendar Did Not Start with January Once

  Our Calendar Did Not Start with January Once

Did you know that the calendar, that is currently employed across the globe, the Gregorian Calendar, didn't initially start with January when it was in its prototype phase in the times of the Roman Empire? To your great astonishment, or maybe not, the first month of the Roman Calendar was March! I am, as the author, not quite sure about to what extent you are astounded, nevertheless, even though you aren't, you should be. 

 In fact, this petite adjustment that we applied to our calendars disrupts the healthy continuation of months, ergo, numerous logical features of our calendar turn into unintelligible, bizarre quirks. Here are some of them:

 First of all, the months' names lose their meaning, because the last four months of the Roman Calendar literally meant the seventh, eighth, ninth, and tenth months. You can realise this easily by unwrapping your dusty high school Latin: Septem-ber(7th), Octo-ber(8th), Novem-ber(9th), and Decem-ber(10th). This also explains pretty clearly why Early Christians celebrated Christmas in late February before swanky and ostentatious modern Christians took over with their 25-December Christmas. Furthermore, the narrative that explains the reason for February's lack of several days in our calendar with Augustus and Julius Caesar becomes more logical. Why would you take a day from the second month to relocate it in July or August? With February as the last month of the year, the story clicks into its place.


 In conclusion, we've had many discrepancies in our perception of time since the dawn of man. Although, our impeccable faculty of resolving such problems does never signify that we've resolved all of them.


 Thank you for reading!

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