The Ides of March
What happened on this day in history? According to Important Dates in History, at least 147 different things, including:
- 1493 Christopher Columbus returns to Spain after first new world voyage
- 1744 French King Louis XV declares war on England
- 1913 First Presidential press conference (Woodrow Wilson)
- 1968 US Mint stops buying and selling gold
- 1989 Department of Veterans Affairs officially established as a Cabinet position
Every month has an Ides. We just forget about the Ides of any other month. The Ides are (were?) the 15th day of March, May, July, or October or the 13th day of any other month in the ancient Roman calendar. Originally Ides were meant to be the full moon, but with calendars ranging from 28 days to 31 days, that doesn't work more than a month or two. Kalends was the day of accounting, the day bills were due. The nones were supposed to be nine days before the ides, but they couldn't count with any more sense than they could make calendars, so they counted the beginning and the ending day in counting, making the nones really eight days before the ides. They just used those three named days and counted everything else from there:
- March 1 - Kalends
March 2 - VI Nones
March 3 - V Nones
March 4 - IV Nones
March 5 - III Nones
March 6 - Pridie Nones ("on the day before")
March 7 - Nones
March 8 - VIII Ides
March 9 - VII Ides
March 10 - VI Ides
March 11 - V Ides
March 12 - IV Ides
March 13 - III Ides
March 14 - Pridie Ides
March 15 - Ides
March 16 - XVI Kalends
March 17 - XV Kalends
March 18 - XIV Kalends
March 19 - XIII Kalends
March 20 - XII Kalends
March 21 - XI Kalends
March 22 - X Kalends
March 23 - IX Kalends
March 24 - VIII Kalends
March 25 - VII Kalends
March 26 - VI Kalends
March 27 - V Kalends
March 28 - IV Kalends
March 29 - III Kalends
March 30 - II Kalends
March 31 - Pridie Kalends
Now, consider that on some months the dates would all be different since you're counting backwards from a different day of the month. There's some speculation that Julias Caesar didn't "beware the Ides of March" because he was thinking that was the 13th of March instead of the 15th and he thought the day the astrologer Spurinna had warned him about had already passed!
I better beware of wasting any more time today on this Ides of March. Have a happy one.
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