October
October is the tenth month of the year in the Gregorian calendar. In the Middle Ages the October as a sacred month in which you marry preferred. Even kings marry mainly in October.
He has 31 days. In the countries where the time is changed from daylight saving time to standard time in October, October is the longest month of the year. The month of October begins, except in leap years with the same day of the week as January.
The name
The Romans called her eighth month of the year october mensis (Latin octo = eight ). Although the month has been BC moved to the tenth digit after the Julian calendar reform 46, it has remained in his Roman name. This is sometimes in the transmission of previously used Latin dates ( " 10ber " & " 8ber " ) overlooked. During the reign of Emperor Tiberius, the Senate proposed to rename the October after his mother Livia Drusilla in Livy, it declined from the Emperor, however, not to have to accept an equality with his mother. During the reign of emperor Domitian the month was then renamed as Domitian, but in contrast to the July and August not prevailed. At the beginning of the reign of Antoninus Pius, the Senate struck again before the October Faustinus to rename after the name of his wife Annia Galeria Faustina, but the emperor refused. Under Emperor Commodus the month then called Hercule (u ) s, after the Greek demigod Heracles, also renaming this was reversed after the death of the emperor.
Other old German names are " wine month ", this name should have been already introduced by Charlemagne in the 8th century and points to the beginning of the grape harvest and the other wine processing, or the Old German name " Gilbhart ", composed of " yellowed " "hard" for the yellowing of the foliage and for "a lot" composed. In general, he is often referred to as the Golden October due to the onset of discoloration of the leaves. When the hunters this month is also called moon roof.
Special holidays and festivals in the German speaking
- Light Blue Monday was celebrated in Bavaria on the first Monday after Michaelmas (29.9 ), since the craftsmen had to work again with light in their rooms. Most of the masters of their apprentices free on that day.
- Oktoberfest on the first Sunday in October is on the Theresienwiese in Munich is the largest festival in the world to end. For the first time it was celebrated on 12 October 1810. Crown Prince Ludwig, later King Ludwig I of Bavaria, married on this day with Therese von Sachsen -Hildburghausen.
- Day of German Unity (October 3 ) This day commemorates the unification of the former GDR and the Federal Republic of Germany in 1990 and released June 17 as a day of remembrance from.
- Thanksgiving (first Sunday in October) in churches harvest revenues are blessed.
- Feast of the Rosary (October 7 ) in 1573, led Pope Gregory XIII. this festival in memory of the Battle of Lepanto, where a Christian fleet has destroyed the ships of the Ottomans - allegedly with the help of rosary prayers, but in reality probably using a new type of ship, the schooner, and the possible become by it Seeschlachttaktiken.
- There are also church fair days on the day of the consecration of the respective church or at the general ( Bavarian ) Parish, this is the third Sunday in October.
- National Day ( Austria ) (October 26 ) It is thought October 26, 1955, and of which, after the state contract signing for the first time were allowed to stand no more foreign troops on Austrian soil.
- Reformation Day ( October 31) It is reminiscent of the stop of the 95 Theses on the practice of selling indulgences of the church to the Dompforte in Wittenberg by Martin Luther, and thus the beginning of the Reformation.
- Halloween (31 October )
Signs of the zodiac
In October, the Zodiac sign Libra are ( September 24 to October 23 ) and Scorpio ( October 24 to November 22 ).