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Topic: WHO INVENTED A CALENDER?
Bernard2020 Joined Wed 05/20/15 Posts: 128	Fri 12/25/15 02:31 AM
Why does the calender consist of 12mnths? Why does feb with 28 days?

Unknow Joined Tue 07/08/14 Posts: 1213	Fri 12/25/15 06:22 AM
The answer is the Roman Catholic Church in fact there is a tower in the Vatican City that was used to convince the Pope that the calendar should have 12 months instead of 10. This is also why October (Octo meaning 8) falls on the 10th month of the year, ie they had to put the two extra months some were so the crammed them in the middle.

TMommy Joined Fri 05/10/13 Posts: 9850	Fri 12/25/15 09:46 AM
thought it was the Mayans

cheechako Joined Tue 05/14/13 Posts: 735	Fri 12/25/15 09:53 AM
I think the Israelite calendar went by the moon (13 months) Yes, the Catholics changed it.

joethebricky Joined Sat 08/04/12 Posts: 12740	Fri 12/25/15 12:52 PM
I was reading about 2 guys who stole a calendar, they both got 6 months

PacificStar48 Joined Tue 10/02/07 Posts: 13764	Fri 12/25/15 01:07 PM Edited by PacificStar48 on Fri 12/25/15 01:10 PM
Why does the calender consist of 12mnths? Why does feb with 28 days? Have probably studied that in school way back when but when you retire you really only care about a couple dates; when your retirement check lands and which days you have to go to the doctor. Most of the rest are interchangeable. Even when the doc says you are going to croak doesn't mean a lot because if it is right you don't know and if they are wrong you are only mildly pleased if you didn't give your pets away. lol

fkakku Joined Sat 12/19/15 Posts: 87	Fri 12/25/15 01:33 PM
i think the first calander was used by mayan civilisation. but it was not like ours.

Conrad_73 Joined Sat 09/29/07 Posts: 22488	Fri 12/25/15 01:41 PM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_calendars History of calendars From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Methods of timekeeping can be reconstructed for the prehistoric period from at least the Neolithic. The natural units for timekeeping used by most historical societies are the day, the solar year and the lunation. Calendars are explicit schemes used for timekeeping. The first recorded calendars date to the Bronze Age, dependent on the development of writing in the Ancient Near East, the Egyptian and Sumerian calendars. A larger number of calendar systems of the Ancient Near East becomes accessible in the Iron Age, based on the Babylonian calendar. This includes the calendar of the Persian Empire, which in turn gave rise to the Zoroastrian calendar as well as the Hebrew calendar. A great number of Hellenic calendars develop in Classical Greece, and with the Hellenistic period also influence calendars outside of the immediate sphere of Greek influence, giving rise to the various Hindu calendars as well as to the ancient Roman calendar. Calendars in antiquity were usually lunisolar, depending on the introduction of intercalary months to align the solar and the lunar years. This was mostly based on observation, but there may have been early attempts to model the pattern of intercalation algorithmically, as evidenced in the fragmentary 2nd-century Coligny calendar. Nevertheless, the Roman calendar contained very ancient remnants of a pre-Etruscan 10-month solar year.[1] The Roman calendar was reformed by Julius Caesar in 45 BCE. The Julian calendar was no longer dependent on the observation of the new moon but simply followed an algorithm of introducing a leap day every four years. This created a dissociation of the calendar month from the lunation. The Gregorian calendar was introduced as a refinement of the Julian calendar in 1582 and is today in worldwide use as the de facto calendar for secular purposes. The term calendar itself is taken from calendae, the term for the first day of the month in the Roman calendar, related to the verb calare "to call out", referring to the "calling" of the new moon when it was first seen. Latin calendarium meant "account book, register" (as accounts were settled and debts were collected on the calends of each month). The Latin term was adopted in Old French as calendier and from there in Middle English as calender by the 13th century (the spelling calendar is early modern). Prehistory A number of prehistoric structures have been proposed as having had the purpose of timekeeping (typically keeping track of the course of the solar year). This includes many megalithic structures, and reconstructed arrangements going back far into the Neolithic period. A mesolithic arrangement of twelve pits and an arc found in Warren Field, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, dated to roughly 10,000 years ago, has been described as a lunar calendar and dubbed the "world's oldest known calendar" in 2013.[2]

lu_rosemary Joined Wed 09/11/13 Posts: 9123	Fri 12/25/15 01:41 PM
The New Year in 709 AUC began on 1 January and ran over 365 days until 31 December. Further adjustments were made under Augustus, who introduced the concept of the "leap year" in 737 AUC (AD 4). The resultant Julian calendar remained in almost universal use in Europe until 1582. Wikipedia.com

lu_rosemary Joined Wed 09/11/13 Posts: 9123	Fri 12/25/15 01:43 PM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_calendars History of calendars From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Methods of timekeeping can be reconstructed for the prehistoric period from at least the Neolithic. The natural units for timekeeping used by most historical societies are the day, the solar year and the lunation. Calendars are explicit schemes used for timekeeping. The first recorded calendars date to the Bronze Age, dependent on the development of writing in the Ancient Near East, the Egyptian and Sumerian calendars. A larger number of calendar systems of the Ancient Near East becomes accessible in the Iron Age, based on the Babylonian calendar. This includes the calendar of the Persian Empire, which in turn gave rise to the Zoroastrian calendar as well as the Hebrew calendar. A great number of Hellenic calendars develop in Classical Greece, and with the Hellenistic period also influence calendars outside of the immediate sphere of Greek influence, giving rise to the various Hindu calendars as well as to the ancient Roman calendar. Calendars in antiquity were usually lunisolar, depending on the introduction of intercalary months to align the solar and the lunar years. This was mostly based on observation, but there may have been early attempts to model the pattern of intercalation algorithmically, as evidenced in the fragmentary 2nd-century Coligny calendar. Nevertheless, the Roman calendar contained very ancient remnants of a pre-Etruscan 10-month solar year.[1] The Roman calendar was reformed by Julius Caesar in 45 BCE. The Julian calendar was no longer dependent on the observation of the new moon but simply followed an algorithm of introducing a leap day every four years. This created a dissociation of the calendar month from the lunation. The Gregorian calendar was introduced as a refinement of the Julian calendar in 1582 and is today in worldwide use as the de facto calendar for secular purposes. The term calendar itself is taken from calendae, the term for the first day of the month in the Roman calendar, related to the verb calare "to call out", referring to the "calling" of the new moon when it was first seen. Latin calendarium meant "account book, register" (as accounts were settled and debts were collected on the calends of each month). The Latin term was adopted in Old French as calendier and from there in Middle English as calender by the 13th century (the spelling calendar is early modern). Prehistory A number of prehistoric structures have been proposed as having had the purpose of timekeeping (typically keeping track of the course of the solar year). This includes many megalithic structures, and reconstructed arrangements going back far into the Neolithic period. A mesolithic arrangement of twelve pits and an arc found in Warren Field, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, dated to roughly 10,000 years ago, has been described as a lunar calendar and dubbed the "world's oldest known calendar" in 2013.[2] Almost a complete explanation. Thank you.

RebelArcher Joined Sat 08/02/14 Posts: 5247	Fri 12/25/15 01:51 PM
Good thread...reminded me I need to get a new calendar next week....

Unknow Joined Tue 07/08/14 Posts: 1213	Fri 12/25/15 03:43 PM Edited by Unknow on Fri 12/25/15 03:44 PM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_calendars History of calendars From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Methods of timekeeping can be reconstructed for the prehistoric period from at least the Neolithic. The natural units for timekeeping used by most historical societies are the day, the solar year and the lunation. Calendars are explicit schemes used for timekeeping. The first recorded calendars date to the Bronze Age, dependent on the development of writing in the Ancient Near East, the Egyptian and Sumerian calendars. A larger number of calendar systems of the Ancient Near East becomes accessible in the Iron Age, based on the Babylonian calendar. This includes the calendar of the Persian Empire, which in turn gave rise to the Zoroastrian calendar as well as the Hebrew calendar. A great number of Hellenic calendars develop in Classical Greece, and with the Hellenistic period also influence calendars outside of the immediate sphere of Greek influence, giving rise to the various Hindu calendars as well as to the ancient Roman calendar. Calendars in antiquity were usually lunisolar, depending on the introduction of intercalary months to align the solar and the lunar years. This was mostly based on observation, but there may have been early attempts to model the pattern of intercalation algorithmically, as evidenced in the fragmentary 2nd-century Coligny calendar. Nevertheless, the Roman calendar contained very ancient remnants of a pre-Etruscan 10-month solar year.[1] The Roman calendar was reformed by Julius Caesar in 45 BCE. The Julian calendar was no longer dependent on the observation of the new moon but simply followed an algorithm of introducing a leap day every four years. This created a dissociation of the calendar month from the lunation. The Gregorian calendar was introduced as a refinement of the Julian calendar in 1582 and is today in worldwide use as the de facto calendar for secular purposes. The term calendar itself is taken from calendae, the term for the first day of the month in the Roman calendar, related to the verb calare "to call out", referring to the "calling" of the new moon when it was first seen. Latin calendarium meant "account book, register" (as accounts were settled and debts were collected on the calends of each month). The Latin term was adopted in Old French as calendier and from there in Middle English as calender by the 13th century (the spelling calendar is early modern). Prehistory A number of prehistoric structures have been proposed as having had the purpose of timekeeping (typically keeping track of the course of the solar year). This includes many megalithic structures, and reconstructed arrangements going back far into the Neolithic period. A mesolithic arrangement of twelve pits and an arc found in Warren Field, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, dated to roughly 10,000 years ago, has been described as a lunar calendar and dubbed the "world's oldest known calendar" in 2013.[2] I can't help but cringe every time I see someone reference Wikipedia, mostly because in college if any of my professor saw it in your reference list in your final paper it was given an automatic F.

joethebricky Joined Sat 08/04/12 Posts: 12740	Fri 12/25/15 03:51 PM Edited by joethebricky on Fri 12/25/15 03:51 PM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_calendars History of calendars From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Methods of timekeeping can be reconstructed for the prehistoric period from at least the Neolithic. The natural units for timekeeping used by most historical societies are the day, the solar year and the lunation. Calendars are explicit schemes used for timekeeping. The first recorded calendars date to the Bronze Age, dependent on the development of writing in the Ancient Near East, the Egyptian and Sumerian calendars. A larger number of calendar systems of the Ancient Near East becomes accessible in the Iron Age, based on the Babylonian calendar. This includes the calendar of the Persian Empire, which in turn gave rise to the Zoroastrian calendar as well as the Hebrew calendar. A great number of Hellenic calendars develop in Classical Greece, and with the Hellenistic period also influence calendars outside of the immediate sphere of Greek influence, giving rise to the various Hindu calendars as well as to the ancient Roman calendar. Calendars in antiquity were usually lunisolar, depending on the introduction of intercalary months to align the solar and the lunar years. This was mostly based on observation, but there may have been early attempts to model the pattern of intercalation algorithmically, as evidenced in the fragmentary 2nd-century Coligny calendar. Nevertheless, the Roman calendar contained very ancient remnants of a pre-Etruscan 10-month solar year.[1] The Roman calendar was reformed by Julius Caesar in 45 BCE. The Julian calendar was no longer dependent on the observation of the new moon but simply followed an algorithm of introducing a leap day every four years. This created a dissociation of the calendar month from the lunation. The Gregorian calendar was introduced as a refinement of the Julian calendar in 1582 and is today in worldwide use as the de facto calendar for secular purposes. The term calendar itself is taken from calendae, the term for the first day of the month in the Roman calendar, related to the verb calare "to call out", referring to the "calling" of the new moon when it was first seen. Latin calendarium meant "account book, register" (as accounts were settled and debts were collected on the calends of each month). The Latin term was adopted in Old French as calendier and from there in Middle English as calender by the 13th century (the spelling calendar is early modern). Prehistory A number of prehistoric structures have been proposed as having had the purpose of timekeeping (typically keeping track of the course of the solar year). This includes many megalithic structures, and reconstructed arrangements going back far into the Neolithic period. A mesolithic arrangement of twelve pits and an arc found in Warren Field, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, dated to roughly 10,000 years ago, has been described as a lunar calendar and dubbed the "world's oldest known calendar" in 2013.[2] I can't help but cringe every time I see someone reference Wikipedia, mostly because in college if any of my professor saw it in your reference list in your final paper it was given an automatic F. The answer is the Roman Catholic Church in fact there is a tower in the Vatican City that was used to convince the Pope that the calendar should have 12 months instead of 10. This is also why October (Octo meaning 8) falls on the 10th month of the year, ie they had to put the two extra months some were so the crammed them in the middle. Above is your earlier statement, so where did you get this information from. You're 40, was wiki about when you were in college I've also looked myself, all over Google, and where the first calendar came from is debatable to say the least.

SparklingCrystal 💖💎 Joined Mon 05/20/13 Posts: 33340	Sat 12/26/15 02:42 AM
thought it was the Mayans That's the Tzolkin. There's also "star signs" (types) based on that. Works totally different than our astrology. Trying to understand it always gives me a headache, not unlike filling out my tax papers. So I gave up on Tzolkin I believe it's more accurate though. Probably cos they were descendants from Atlantis -American Indians too btw. (Via the Tolteks, later Aztecs etc.) We got the Gregorian calendar. Surprised that no one knew that from the top of their head. As to who was the first ... don't think anyone knows. I think every ancient people head a calendar, probably far more accurate ones than ours. There used to be a lot of wisdom in the now India area. If memory serves, they had calendars, written in Sanskrit.

metalwing Joined Fri 11/14/08 Posts: 26218	Sat 12/26/15 05:50 AM
The ancient humans had twelve gods so they split the months up so people could remember their names. Fabiowary was a ***** and got beat up a lot by the other gods so they gave him fewer days in his month!

Conrad_73 Joined Sat 09/29/07 Posts: 22488	Sat 12/26/15 06:16 AM Edited by Conrad_73 on Sat 12/26/15 06:19 AM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_calendars History of calendars From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Methods of timekeeping can be reconstructed for the prehistoric period from at least the Neolithic. The natural units for timekeeping used by most historical societies are the day, the solar year and the lunation. Calendars are explicit schemes used for timekeeping. The first recorded calendars date to the Bronze Age, dependent on the development of writing in the Ancient Near East, the Egyptian and Sumerian calendars. A larger number of calendar systems of the Ancient Near East becomes accessible in the Iron Age, based on the Babylonian calendar. This includes the calendar of the Persian Empire, which in turn gave rise to the Zoroastrian calendar as well as the Hebrew calendar. A great number of Hellenic calendars develop in Classical Greece, and with the Hellenistic period also influence calendars outside of the immediate sphere of Greek influence, giving rise to the various Hindu calendars as well as to the ancient Roman calendar. Calendars in antiquity were usually lunisolar, depending on the introduction of intercalary months to align the solar and the lunar years. This was mostly based on observation, but there may have been early attempts to model the pattern of intercalation algorithmically, as evidenced in the fragmentary 2nd-century Coligny calendar. Nevertheless, the Roman calendar contained very ancient remnants of a pre-Etruscan 10-month solar year.[1] The Roman calendar was reformed by Julius Caesar in 45 BCE. The Julian calendar was no longer dependent on the observation of the new moon but simply followed an algorithm of introducing a leap day every four years. This created a dissociation of the calendar month from the lunation. The Gregorian calendar was introduced as a refinement of the Julian calendar in 1582 and is today in worldwide use as the de facto calendar for secular purposes. The term calendar itself is taken from calendae, the term for the first day of the month in the Roman calendar, related to the verb calare "to call out", referring to the "calling" of the new moon when it was first seen. Latin calendarium meant "account book, register" (as accounts were settled and debts were collected on the calends of each month). The Latin term was adopted in Old French as calendier and from there in Middle English as calender by the 13th century (the spelling calendar is early modern). Prehistory A number of prehistoric structures have been proposed as having had the purpose of timekeeping (typically keeping track of the course of the solar year). This includes many megalithic structures, and reconstructed arrangements going back far into the Neolithic period. A mesolithic arrangement of twelve pits and an arc found in Warren Field, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, dated to roughly 10,000 years ago, has been described as a lunar calendar and dubbed the "world's oldest known calendar" in 2013.[2] I can't help but cringe every time I see someone reference Wikipedia, mostly because in college if any of my professor saw it in your reference list in your final paper it was given an automatic F. in that case,have a look at the External Links,instead of taking the interpretation in the Article as Gospel! BTW,you had some weird Professors! WIKI at least gives you a Point where you can start your Inquiry! Might even find out there were Calendars around a few Millennia before the inception of the Catholic Church!

Rock Joined Thu 10/09/08 Posts: 21258	Sat 12/26/15 03:15 PM
Why does the calender consist of 12mnths? Why does feb with 28 days? The Gregorian calendar you speak of, was invented by a catholic so and so, named Gregory.. Most cultures throughout history, have used their own calendars in one way or the other.