Who changed the months?

Question

studying spanish I began to realize that sep. is 7, oct. is 8, nov. is 9 and dec. is 10. why dont these names corrispond with their numbers. Someone has pulled a fast one on us. I guesing it might be the Catholic church.

Answer 1

The Gregorian calendar is actually pretty good considering a complete revolution around the sun doesn't work out evenly in days. Here's a paste of what was done...

Caesar's calendar resulted in three leap years too many every 385 years, so Pope Gregory XIII (with help from an astronomer) introduced a new calendar in 1,582 A.D. that called for a leap day in every year that is exactly divisible by four.  To further make things work out correctly, the Pope decreed an exception to this rule: leap years ending in 00 (including 2000) must be evenly divisible by 400 to qualify for the extra day. The Gregorian calendar has remained universal in Western countries and Japan, Egypt and China.

Answer 2

The personell of the Catholic Church makes alot of shameless but in this case I think you are read something wrong or you're drink some "severe" whiskey before you begin to read this months. Spanish are specific by the catholicism but that much .... Veradisca & Best Regards, Neven.

Answer 3

no, it was not the catholic church.  there were ten months until augustus caesar died.  then the roman senate changed the roman calendar, which is the one we still use, and the added july and august, named for julius and augustus caesar.  they also made both months 31 days, as it would have been an insult to make either of these months a day short

Answer 4

Maybe. We use the calendar made by Pope Gregory even though it is off by about 7 or 8 years. More Papal sins? You betcha.

Answer 5

i think your right

Answer 6

Here's a link that will tell you,all you need to know.