How comes the name JULY?
Where do we get the name JULY?
why we called a month JULY among 12 months?
I don't know, Whether you have these questions in your mind or not. like me :)
However here is the answer which is collect from internet by surfing few hours and from some brilliant guys around my locale.
The month of July was renamed for Julius Caesar, who was born in that month. Prior to that, it was called Quintilis in Latin meaning the fifth month in the ancient Roman calendar. This was before January became the first month of the calendar year about the year 450 BC. We currently use the more recent Gregorian calendar — recent as in AD 1582 — which makes use of Anno Domini, meaning "in the year of our Lord" counting from the birth of Jesus. As we've previously discussed, in this calendar Jesus was born curiously 4 to 6 years BC or "Before Christ."
The Gregorian calendar was a reform of the Julian calendar which was itself a reform of the previous Roman calendar. The Julian calendar was introduced by Julius Caesar himself in 46 BC, where he added — probably after returning from an African military campaign in late Quntilis (July) — an additional 67 days by putting two intercalary months between November and December, as Cicero tells us at the time. This took care of some of the leap year problems. The Romans, after his death, renamed Quintilis to Iulius (July) in honor of his birth month.
Though Julius Caesar is often called the first Emperor of Rome, that honor actually goes to Octavian, or Augustus Caesar to whom Julius was great uncle. Julius did, nevertheless, play an important part in Rome's transformation from a Republic to an Empire. He rose to the position of "perpetual dictator" and his conquest of Gaul and his invasion of Britain extended the Roman world to the North Sea. His family Julia was the beginning, at the very height of Roman government, of the Julio-Claudian Dynasty that lasted until the demise of Nero in AD 68. His family claimed ancient roots from Iulus, who was the son of the Trojan price Aeneas of legend, the son of Venus, as described by the epic Latin poem The Aeneid which tells of the origin of Rome, and is named earlier in Homer's Iliad.
Where do we get the name JULY?
why we called a month JULY among 12 months?
I don't know, Whether you have these questions in your mind or not. like me :)
However here is the answer which is collect from internet by surfing few hours and from some brilliant guys around my locale.
The month of July was renamed for Julius Caesar, who was born in that month. Prior to that, it was called Quintilis in Latin meaning the fifth month in the ancient Roman calendar. This was before January became the first month of the calendar year about the year 450 BC. We currently use the more recent Gregorian calendar — recent as in AD 1582 — which makes use of Anno Domini, meaning "in the year of our Lord" counting from the birth of Jesus. As we've previously discussed, in this calendar Jesus was born curiously 4 to 6 years BC or "Before Christ."
The Gregorian calendar was a reform of the Julian calendar which was itself a reform of the previous Roman calendar. The Julian calendar was introduced by Julius Caesar himself in 46 BC, where he added — probably after returning from an African military campaign in late Quntilis (July) — an additional 67 days by putting two intercalary months between November and December, as Cicero tells us at the time. This took care of some of the leap year problems. The Romans, after his death, renamed Quintilis to Iulius (July) in honor of his birth month.
Though Julius Caesar is often called the first Emperor of Rome, that honor actually goes to Octavian, or Augustus Caesar to whom Julius was great uncle. Julius did, nevertheless, play an important part in Rome's transformation from a Republic to an Empire. He rose to the position of "perpetual dictator" and his conquest of Gaul and his invasion of Britain extended the Roman world to the North Sea. His family Julia was the beginning, at the very height of Roman government, of the Julio-Claudian Dynasty that lasted until the demise of Nero in AD 68. His family claimed ancient roots from Iulus, who was the son of the Trojan price Aeneas of legend, the son of Venus, as described by the epic Latin poem The Aeneid which tells of the origin of Rome, and is named earlier in Homer's Iliad.
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