OCTOBER: HOW THE 8TH MONTH BECAME THE 10TH MONTH

October, the 10th month in today’s Gregorian calendar, was originally the 8th month in the old Roman calendar (pre-46 B.C.). In that Roman calendar, March used to be the 1st month of the year.
The word October comes from the Latin word “Octo,” meaning eight. Thus, it was used to designate the 8th month. In the Julian calendar, with the addition of the months of January and February, October was moved to the 10th month but still retained its original name.
The name “October” was also retained in the present calendar known as the Gregorian calendar that has endured till date.
It is also pertinent to remind us that it was on “Oct. 4, 1582, that the Gregorian calendar took effect in Catholic countries as Pope Gregory XIII, whose name it bears, issued a decree stating the day following Thursday, October 4, 1582, would be Friday, October 15, 1582, correcting a 10-day error accumulated by the Julian calendar, which is why the month of October marks the beginning of time as we know it.”
However, the present Gregorian calendar is still not perfect. The calendar “still has an error factor of three days every 10,000 years, so eventually a correction will have to be made.” Who will do that? Whose name will it bear? Which continent will it come from?
As many of our religious personnel in Africa are currently busy cooking up prophecies for cross-over night into 1st January 2025, and as many of our political leaders, especially in Nigeria, are looking for ways of collapsing the economy completely, and as many of our young men are carrying around laptops in search of “clients,” many young boys and girls in other continents are in various laboratories working on improving the present calendar and other things that could improve human life.
Do not joke with the powers of your brain, research, and teamwork. Those who understand them control the world. They control how you calculate time, what you should eat, your education, politics, movements, and even religion.
Happy new month, my dearest friends.
Angelo Chidi Unegbu
Angelo Chidi Unegbu
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