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October (from Latin octo, "eight") or mensis October was the eighth of ten months on the oldest Roman calendar. It had 31 days. It had 31 days. October followed September (from septem , "seven") and preceded November ( novem , "nine").
The Roman calendar was the calendar used by the Roman Kingdom and Roman ... (March), Maius (May), Quinctilis (July), and October continued to have 31; the other ...
Sex Maius nonas, October, Julius, et Mars; Quattuor at reliqui: dabit idus quidlibet octo. This means that the first day is called the calends ; six days after the calends is the nones of May, October, July and March, while the nones comes only four days later for the other months; the ides comes eight days after the nones.
Red maple (Acer rubrum) leaf in October (Northern hemisphere).October is the tenth month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars.Its length is 31 days. The eighth month in the old calendar of Romulus c. 750 BC, October retained its name (from Latin and Greek ôctō meaning "eight") after January and February were inserted into the calendar that had originally been created by the Romans.
The General Roman Calendar (GRC) is the liturgical calendar that indicates the dates of celebrations of saints and mysteries of the Lord (Jesus Christ) in the Roman Rite of the Catholic Church, wherever this liturgical rite is in use. These celebrations are a fixed annual date, or occur on a particular day of the week.
In the old Roman calendar (until perhaps as late as 153 BC), the mensis Martius ("Mars' Month") was the first month of the year. It is one of the few months to be named for a god, Mars , whose festivals dominate the month.
'Roman year since the creation of the universe', abbreviated as ε.Κ.), was the calendar used by the Eastern Orthodox Church from c. 691 to 1728 in the Ecumenical Patriarchate. [2] [note 2] It was also the official calendar of the Byzantine Empire from 988 to 1453 and it was used in Russia until 1700.
In March, May, July, and October it was the 15th day of the month; in other months it was the 13th Ides of March , a day in the Roman calendar that corresponded to March 15; it was marked by several religious observances and became notorious as the date of the assassination of Julius Caesar in 44 BC