Have you ever thought about narrating children's or young adult books? I think you have a soothing yet clear and engaging voice and would do really well at it!!
I was thinking the same thing. I've stopped watching other videos regardless if info was good because I didn't care for the narrator. I really like all these videos for the content and the way she narrates is great
The traditional Japanese calendar has a system of Era Names to keep track of the year. They currently follow a format of using the reigning emperor's posthumous name and how many years they have reigned. For example, 2021 is considered to be the 3rd year of the Reiwa era (令和三年) because it's the 3rd year of the current emperor's reign, and when he dies his posthumous name will be Emperor Reiwa (令和天皇), which is how each Emperor since Emperor Meiji has had their era names decided. Before that, it was much more flexible, and era names were often changed after natural disasters to try to avoid bad luck
Technically the emperor's reign simply has to end. The emperor emeritus, Akihito, is retired from official duties and as such, the Heisei Era ended in 2019.
My grandmother was great at this calendar thing. Once she met a guy that was kind of famous and loved to say he was born in february 29th and once he and my grandmother met and since she loved those things she mantions it during a conversation. So he stated "I was born in february 29th 1900", to what my grandmother replied "But 1900 wasn't a leap year". The guy was so embaressed because he was caught in his lie that my grandmother regret saying that like that in front of other people.
I noticed this too. Had a mini heart attack because I requested the weekend off in February for the Lunar New Year and questioned if I asked for the wrong date off 😂
This got me thinking that in Finland most of the weekdays got their names from vikings but for some reason months weren't based on latin. Instead, Finns named the months after nature. Also, back in the old days new year "kekri" was celebrated at the beginning of November around the time of modern Halloween.
Honestly Lindsey is one of my idols ! I love history It is my passion and my dream job to be a historian and she is one of the ones who have made me amazed with history.
There is also the Islamic Calendar also known as the Hijri, Lunar Hijri, Islam or Arabic Calendar, is a lunar calendar consisting of 12 lunar months in a year of 354 or 355 days. It is used to determine the proper days of Islamic holiday and rituals, such as the annual period of fasting and the proper time for the Hajj.
Now imagine if the south and north hemisphere had different month names after their own seasons. While April is the month of opening and blossom, in the South is autumn.
You've quickly become one of my favorite RU-vid channels. You have a great way of presenting a lot of information into nice, succinct videos that are easy to understand.
This popped up on my recommended in perfect timing. I’m learning Greek and seeing the months I think to myself “where are these names coming from?!” So interesting and spectacular that so many words today have their own history!
Again, the Royal Diaries series, this time on Anastasia, introduced me to the difference in Julian and Gregorian calendar dates as a kid and it was kinda confusing to keep up with the two dates. As a kid, I kept thinking “Why can’t they just stick to one date...?!?” 😂
It is always a good time to learn something new, interesting or both. Great video. Bonus-Czech names for month and its origins: Leden: led=ice >icy month Únor: nor=to sink >month of ice sinking and breaking Březen: březí=pregnant in animal terms >the month when the animals are pregnant or giving first year birth Duben: dub=oak >the month when oaks grow new leaves and blooms Květen: květ=bloom or flower > the month when everything is in bloom Červen: červený=red > the month when fruit is geting red Červenec: same as červen, but longer Srpen: srp=sickle > the month when ripe grain is being colected by sickle Září: zářit= to shine, but the end of the name sounds the same as the start of the name for next month and therefore Říjen: říj=heat time for animals >month when animals are in heat Listopad:list= leaf, pád=fall >month of falling leaves Prosinec: prosit=to beg or pray > a month for remembering the birth of god, time of increased praying
I love how the Romans literally had superstition dictating their calendar. I also always wondered why July + August are out of the regular 30/31 rhythm and now I learned something as simple as human vanity is behind it. Also the fact that politicians even two thousand years ago were the same as current politicians and were the first ones to immediately abuse the leap month for their own purposes. Even this small fragment of human history about timekeeping tells so much about our history. Well done video!
Japan follows the year of the Emperor. When a new emperor begins his reign, the year starts at one. As Crown Prince Naruhito begin his reign on May 1, 2019 it was year 1. Can seriously mess with OCR readings for invoices.
I had no idea about this. Thanks for the info. I looked it up to verify and sure enough they use the Imperial year on official documents. This must be confusing even for many Japanese people since the Gregorian calendar is used in everyday life there as well (though with numbered names for the months rather than the names used in the Gregorian system). To complicate matters more, many festivals in Japan are still arranged around the Chinese lunisolar calendar because the seasonality of those events was constructed based on that calendar, so using the Gregorian calendar makes them feel out of sync with the seasons, and that even varies by region with some choosing to use the Gregorian dates. 😵
@@japanorbust it threw a monkey wrench into our OCR design (optical character recognition) for our Japan division. We had to build another table linking the Gregorian year and the Emperor year so they wouldn’t fail.
There's more other type of calendar like the Muslim Calendar, Hindu Calendar and etc. Where I'm come from the calendar are used are the common with some 3 extra calendar are added which are the Chinese, Hindu and Muslim calendar.
There is also the Buddhist calendar (BE = Buddhist Era), which takes it's starting point from when Buddha attained nirvana (in other words, at his death). This happened 543 years before the beginning of what we call the Common Era (CE). The Buddhist calendar is still used in Thailand, so Thai people currently count the year (2021 CE) as being 2564 BE. Furthermore, in the late 1800s King Rama V instituted the Thai solar calendar, which was 365 days long and marked Thai New Year (called Songkran) as beginning in April, once the sun crosses the constellation of Aries. But in the 1940s New Year's Day was changed to the 1st of January, meaning 1 January 2022 CE will be the beginning of the year 2656 BE. However, Thai people still celebrate both the solar New Year and Thai New Year. On top of that, Chinese people living in Thailand observe the Chinese year also. But somehow everybody copes living by three different calendars with no problems!
Lindsay what do you think about the Holocene calendar proposed by Cesare Emiliani? I think it’s a cool way to think about human accomplishment. Happy 12021!
I would love you to do a history of Valentines Day. you mentioned how February was the least popular month yet Valentines day is in the middle of February. It would be interesting knowing about how this day came about and other variations of it around the world.
Fascinating! So does this mean, for example, that Queen Elizabeth I was born on September 17th and not September 7th? Or, have historians corrected the dates from before England followed the Gregorian calendar?
Thank you. This was so satisfying to watch and finally understand where all of these month names came from and how the calendar evolved to what it is. There is one correction I would offer, which is that in 2021 the Lunar New Year (Chinese New Year) is on February 12. It was January 25th last year. 🐂🏮🧨🧧🎇
Great and very informative Video! I enjoy your content very much and hope, you'll stay with us and keep the videos coming I would like to add one little thing, I learned waaaaaaaay back in school : the first humans were hunters and collectors and only needed the moon. They always moved with the wild animals and life was hard back then. But Earth and Human kind were in sinc. Much later, people started to settle and grow wheet and started to keep life stock. So they had to turn towards the sun, since it is needed to grow things for the steadily growing population and to feed the life stock.
Currently for me as i write this it is Wednesday 6th January 2021 and the time is 8:26 am. It is winter, very cold and there are remnants of snow and ice on the ground. Also currently at the start of a third lockdown. so fun times.
Wow -- I knew a lot of this already (given I"m a huge mythology fan), but I had no idea ancient Romans considered even numbers to be unlucky (and thats why so many months have an odd number of days)! Fascinating...
The Roman kings are considered pretty mythical these days, so it’s more likely that it was later on attributed what they did to explain things in Romans systems and history. Although Etruscan kings did rule Rome. It was Augustus who named July (after hai adopted father and it was now how family name) and Augustus (for himself). Caligula tried to name September Germanicus (after himself and father who had gotten the name from his father who had had victories in Germany, Caligula also has Germanicus in his name). But it didn’t stick since he was assassinated. Some later on emperors tried to change the months too, most famously Commodus who changed all the names of months after his own 12 names (the Roman Emperors as time went on gained huge amounts of names). I recall that he even put Augustus in a different spot, it was one of his names but in different order in his names so it must have been confusing. But he was also assassinated and his names didn’t stay.
The first month in the Hebrew calendar is pronounced Tish-ray. The Jewish calendar is designed to add an addition month on a rotating basis that was set down thousands of years ago. Many Catholic holidays are determined by when Jewish holidays fall as it was deemed to be more accurate. See the Council of Nicea. Also, wouldn't these calculations assume that the earth revolved around the sun which is a notion that supposedly no one believed in back then? How could they calculate time before there were clocks? How would they know when a full revolution of the earth began or ended?
As a Jew I was so happy to see you include the Jewish Calendar however you misspronounced the first month of the Jewish year. You said “Teeshree” instead of “Tishrei” or Teesh- ray
Another great video from this channel! but if i may add, i think you missed the islamic calender (Hijriyah) which based on the moon. Regardless, thank you for sharing us another knowledge!
Great vlog as always! I love learning something new every day! Thank you. In Scandinavia we have the Runic calendar, and the Primstav. It is a crude weather teller and may also tell how the harvest will be. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runic_calendar
Our country has it's individual months and years, it the year 1427 and falgun is coming next month. And no one can forget the Pohela boishakh, which happens in 14th April every year
