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Commonly repeated lore has it that August has 31 days because Augustus wanted his month to match the length of Julius Caesar's July, but this is an invention of the 13th-century scholar Johannes de Sacrobosco. Sextilis in fact had 31 days before it was renamed, and it was not chosen for its length (see Julian calendar).
Julius Caesar added two days when he created the Julian calendar in 46 BC (AUC 708), giving it its modern length of 31 days. In 8 BC, the month was renamed in honor of Emperor Augustus . [ 5 ] According to a Senatus consultum quoted by Macrobius , he chose this month because it was the time of several of his great triumphs, including the ...
Circular CL/3494 of 29 July 1998, from the Director-General invited Ministers of Culture to promote the day. [2] The date is significant because, during the night of 22 August to 23 August 1791, on the island of Saint Domingue (now known as Haiti ), an uprising began which set forth events which were a major factor in the abolition of the ...
It was an iron stick 68.6 centimetres (27.0 in) in length covered in brass tin with small golden nails that formed various symbols grouped in a spiral of 39 rows. The original was lost at the end of the 19th century, but copies were made and one is kept at the National Museum of Lithuania .
Gregory's calendar reform modified the Julian rule, to reduce the average length of the calendar year from 365.25 days to 365.2425 days and thus corrected the Julian calendar's drift against the solar year: the Gregorian calendar gains just 0.1 day over 400 years. For any given event during the years from 1901 through 2099, its date according ...
August 10 is the 222nd day of the year (223rd in leap years) ... 1933 – Doyle Brunson, American poker player (d. 2023) [36] 1933 – Elizabeth Butler-Sloss, ...
There is a small group of spectacular imperial engraved gems, cameos carved in contrasting colours of stone.These are sometimes called "State Cameos", [11] that presumably originated, and were probably only seen, in the inner court circle of Augustus, as they show him with divine attributes that were still politically sensitive, and in some cases have sexual aspects that would not have been ...
August 12 is the 224th day of the year ... 1977 – The first free flight of the Space ... George McGinnis, American basketball player (d. 2023) [26] 1951 – Klaus ...