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Monday, December 29, 2014

About The History of the Calendar by A.E. Evenson

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Book: About The History of the Calendar
Author: A.E. Evenson
ISBN: 0-516-08092-X

Chapter 1: Nature’s Calendars

1. Natural Calendars are bushes, trees, or even insects.
2. They used certain trees to tell time.
3. They used certain trees and waited for them to bud.  They also used certain insects, once they appeared, they knew it was harvest time.

Chapter 2: Moon Calendars

4. These changes are called the phases of the moon.
5. It takes the moon about 29 ½ days to go through all its phases.
6. A lunar calendar
7. The first day of the month was called “the first day of the moon.”
8. Januarius, Februarius, Martius, Aprilis, Maius, Junius, Quintilis, Sextilis, September, October, November, and December
9. Lunar months were shorter than our months.  True or False
10. Twelve lunar months were greater than a year.  True or False
11. The 13th month was called Mercedonius.

Chapter 3: The Calendar of Julius Caesar

12. The rulers of Rome decided when to add the extra month.
13. They didn’t add the extra month so that taxes could be collected sooner.
14. They did this to stay in office longer.
15. This caused the calendar to be out of step with the seasons.
16. The calendar was off one season.
17. December was appearing at the end of summer.
18. He made the months agree with the seasons.
19. He added 80 extra days to the year 46 B.C.
20. It had 445 days.
21. The Year of Confusion
22. The months agreed with the seasons.
23. He stopped using the old lunar calendar.
24. He started to use a solar calendar.
25. It was based on the length of time it takes the earth to orbit the sun.
26. A Leap Year
27. 29 days
28. 28 days
29. The Romans called their calendar the Julian Calendar
30. Quintilis
31. The Romans renamed Quintilis to July.
32. Augustus renamed Sextilis to August.  True or False

Chapter 4: Pope Gregory Changes the Calendar

33. 365 days
34. 12 minutes
35. It was off by 10 days.
36. He took 10 days off the calendar.
37. The calendar jumped from Thursday, October 4th to Friday, October 15th.  True or False
38. The Gregorian Calendar
39. England and America
40. 1752
41. No, they did not agree.
42. By 1745 these calendars were 11 days apart.
43. They had to write O.S. (old style)

Chapter 5: How We Got the Week

44. Nones and Ides
45. Kalends
46. We got it by the word Kalends, which means first day of the month.
47. In Asia
48. It was later used by the Hebrews then by the Christians
49. It was added when Christianity became the official religion of Rome.
50. 400 years after Julius Caesar
51. Sun’s day
52. Sol (sun)
53. Moon’s day
54. Luna (moon)
55. Tiw’s day
56. Mars
57. Woden’s day
58. Mercury
59. Thor’s day
60. Jupiter
61. Frigg’s day
62. Venus
63. Seterne’s day
64. Saturn


Chapter 6: A.D. and B.C.

65.  It means Anno Domini
66. In the year of the Lord
67. Denys the Little
68. B.C. means before the birth of Christ

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