February 2013 Calendar

February

February is that the third month of earth science winter within the hemisphere. within the hemisphere, Gregorian calendar month is that the seasonal equivalent of August within the hemisphere (which is that the third month of summer), in earth science reckoning.

February starts on an equivalent day of the week as March and November in common years, and on an equivalent day of the week as August in leap years. Gregorian calendar month ends on an equivalent day of the week as Oct once a year and on an equivalent day of the week as Jan in common years solely. In leap years, it's the sole month that ends on an equivalent weekday it begins.

The Roman month Februarius was named when the Latin term februum, which implies purification, via the purification ritual Februa remained Gregorian calendar month fifteen (full moon) within the previous satellite lunar calendar. Jan and Gregorian calendar month were the last 2 months to be intercalary to the lunar calendar, since the Romans originally thought of winter a monthless amount. They were intercalary by Numa Pompilius concerning 713 before Christ. Gregorian calendar month remained the last month of the year till the time of the decemvirs (c. 450 BC), once it became the second month. At sure intervals Gregorian calendar month was truncated to twenty three or twenty four days; and a 27-day added month, Intercalaris, was inserted right away when Gregorian calendar month to line up the year with the seasons.

Under the reforms that instituted the solar calendar, Intercalaris was abolished, leap years occurred often each fourth year, and in leap years Gregorian calendar month gained a twenty ninth day. Thereafter, it remained the second month of the year, which means the order that months ar displayed (January, February, March, ..., December) inside a year-at-a-glance calendar. Even throughout the center Ages, once the numbered A.D. year began on twenty five|Annunciation|Lady Day|Annunciation Day|March 25|quarter day} or Dec 25, the second month was Gregorian calendar month whenever all twelve months were displayed so as. The solar calendar reforms created slight changes to the system for decisive that years were leap years and so contained a 29-day Gregorian calendar month.

Historical names for Gregorian calendar month embrace the English language terms Solmonath (mud month) and Kale-monath (named for cabbage) further as Charlemagne's designation Hornung. In Finnish, the month is named helmikuu, which means month of the pearl; once snow melts on tree branches, it forms droplets, and as these freeze once more, they're like pearls of ice. In Polish and Ukrainian, severally, the month is named luty or , which means the month of ice or onerous frost. In Macedonian the month is sechko, which means month of cutting [wood]. In Czech, it's known as únor, which means month of submergence [of watercourse ice]. Croatians decision the month veljaca, whose which means is unknown however could come back from the word for greater, a attainable respect to the times increasing long.

In Slovene, Gregorian calendar month is historically known as svecan, associated with icicles or the quarter day. This name originates from sican, written as svican within the New Carniolan Almanac from 1775 and altered to its final type by monetary unit Metelko in his New Almanac from 1824. The name was conjointly spelled secan, which means the month of thinning out of trees. In 1848, a proposal was argue in Kmetijske in rokodelske novice by the Slovene Society of national capital to decision this month talnik (related to ice melting), however it's not stuck. the concept was projected by the priest and nationalist Blaž Potocnik. a reputation of Gregorian calendar month in Slovene was conjointly vesnar, when the mythological character Vesna.