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The Western calendar comes to us from ancient Rome. Many of our days and months still retain the names given by the Romans.
Monday comes from Old English, 'Monandaeg', 'Day of the Moon', and traces back through French, Italian and Spanish to Greek (selenes) and Latin (Lunae).
Tuesday is from Old English, 'Tiwesdaeg', from Proto-Germanic 'god of the sky' + 'day', eventually tracing back to Greek (Ares) and Latin (Mars).
Wednesday is again from Old English, 'Wodensdaeg', 'Woden's Day', going back again, eventually, to Latin (Mercury) and Greek (Hermes).
Thursday is from Old English, 'Purresdaeg', 'Thor's Day', once again tracing back to Latin and Greek (Jupiter, and Zeus).
Friday is from Old English 'Friggedaeg', 'Frigga's Day', back again to Latin (Venus) and Greek (Aphrodite).
Saturday is again Old English, 'Saeterdaeg' or 'Saeternesdaeg', 'day of the planet Saturn', going back to Latin (Saturn) and Greek (Sabbath). The Sabbath connection goes through to Swedish and Old Norse terms for 'bath day'.
Sunday is Old English, 'Sunnandaeg', 'Day of the Sun', again back to Latin and Greek.
The division of our Western calendar into days, months and years, is reliant on the Gregorian calendar, named for Pope Gregory XIII (1502 - 1585) and introduced on February 24, 1582 (see link, below). The Gregorian calendar included a reform of the Julian calendar, introduced by Julius Caesar in 46 BC, and was particularly concerned with recalculating the dates for Easter.
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