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The tenth month of the Roman calendar was October, the same as ours. This name, even tough it connotes eight (octo) was kept after additions of two extra month were made under the early kings. The months of January and February were added at the beginningof the year so the last four months were pushed back but kept their original names.

In the early Roman calendar some of the less important months simply had numbers and not names. September, (7) October, (8) November, (9) December (10). Legend has it that Romulus created the early calendar in 753 BC - year 1 in the Roman calendar, ab urbe condita (AUC) 'from the founding of the city' and for unknown reasons the year had only ten months. The first four months - March, April, May, and June were named the rest were just numbered.

King Numa added Janarius and Februarius around 700 BC.

Quintilius was changed Julius (July), for Julius Caesar, and Sextilius to Augustus (August), for Emporer Augustus.

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