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Vendémiaire
| Brumaire
| Frimaire
| Nivôse
| Pluviôse
| Ventôse
| Germinal
| Floréal
| Prairial
| Messidor
| Thermidor
| Fructidor | Sansculottides
 First
day of month of Fructidor
(Fruit month), French
Revolutionary Calendar
On
October 24,
1793 the French
National Convention adopted the French Republican Calendar
(French Revolutionary Calendar) retrospectively as from September
22, 1792.
Napoleon
Bonaparte abolished it and restored the Gregorian
calendar on January
1, 1806 (the day after 10 nivôse an XIV), a little over twelve
years after its introduction. However, it was used again during the
brief Paris
Commune in 1871
(year LXXIX).
It was designed
by the politician and agronomist
Charles
Gilbert Romme, although it is usually attributed to
Fabre
d'Églantine, who invented the descriptive names of the months.
Instead of most days having a saint
as in the Catholic Church's calendar, each day has a
plant, a tool or an animal associated with it. Some enthusiasts
in France still use the calendar.
Each month
lasted 30 days and was divided into three decades. Every day had the
name of an agricultural plant, except the 5th (Quintidi)
and 10th day (Decadi) of every decade, which had the name
of a domestic animal (Quintidi) or an agricultural tool (Decadi).
Autumn
Vendémiaire
(from Latin vindemia, 'vintage'), begins Sep
22, 23
or 24
Brumaire
(from French brume, 'mist'), begins Oct
22, 23
or 24
Frimaire
(From French frimas, 'frost'), begins Nov
21, 22
or 23
Winter
Nivôse
(from Latin nivosus, 'snowy'), begins Dec
21, 22
or 23
Pluviôse
(from Latin pluviosus, 'rainy'), begins Jan
20, 21
or 22
Ventôse
(from Latin ventosus, 'windy'), begins Feb
19, 20
or 21
Spring
Germinal
(from Latin germen, 'seed'), begins Mar
20 or 21
Floréal
(from Latin flos, 'flower'), begins Apr
20 or 21
Prairial
(from French prairie, 'meadow'), begins May
20 or 21
Summer
Messidor
(from Latin messis, 'harvest'), begins Jun
19 or 20
Thermidor
(from Greek thermos, 'hot'), begins Jul
19 or 20
Fructidor (from Latin fructus, 'fruits'), begins Aug
18 or 19
 Sansculottides
The Sansculottides
(also Epagomenes; French Sans-culottides, Sanculottides,
jours complementaires, jours épagomènes) are the end
of the calendar. They follow Fructidor
and precede Vendémiaire
of the next year, belonging to the summer quarter of the year.
The Sansculottides, named after the Sansculottes,
amend the 360 days of the calendar so that the beginning of the next
year is on the autumnal
equinox. There were five Sansculottides in a common year and six
in a leap year (from this derives the French name of the leap year année
sextile). The Sansculottides start on September
17 or 18
and end on September
22 or 23.
| |
1re Décade |
2e Décade |
3e Décade |
| Primidi |
1. |
Pomme
(Apple) |
11. |
Salsifis
(Salsify) |
21. |
Bacchante
(asarum baccharis) |
| Duodi |
2. |
Céleri
(Celery) |
12. |
Macre (Water
Chestnut) |
22. |
Azerole
(Crete Hawthorn) |
| Tridi |
3. |
Poire (Pear) |
13. |
Topinambour
(Jerusalem Artichoke) |
23. |
Garence
(Madder) |
| Quartidi |
4. |
Betterave
(Beet Root) |
14. |
Endive
(Endive) |
24. |
Orange
(Orange) |
| Quintidi |
5. |
Oye
(Goose) |
15. |
Dindon
(Turkey) |
25. |
Faisan
(Pheasant) |
| Sextidi |
6. |
Héliotrope
(European Turnsole) |
16. |
Chervi
(Skirret) |
26. |
Pistache
(Pistachio) |
| Septidi |
7. |
Figue (Fig) |
17. |
Cresson
(Cress) |
27. |
Macjonc (Sweetpea) |
| Octidi |
8. |
Scorsonère
(Black Salsify) |
18. |
Dentelaire (Leadwort) |
28. |
Coing
(Quince) |
| Nonidi |
9. |
Alisier
(Chequer Tree) |
19. |
Grenade
(Pomegranate) |
29. |
Cormier
(Service Tree) |
| Decadi |
10. |
Charrue
(Plough) |
20. |
Herse
(Harrow) |
30. |
Rouleau
(Roller) |
Source: Wikipedia Website converts
Gregorian calendar to FRC (and has desktop
program)
High
resolution image of the calendar by Louis-Philibert Debucourt
(951x1098, 486 KB)
Antique
Decimal Watches Criticisms
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great calendar comparisons
The
Book
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Heraclia in Kynosarges, ancient Greece (Aug 12 - 19)
Odin's Ordeal (Aug 17 - 25)
Feast day of St Agapitus (Agapetus),
martyr
Feast day of St Aimo
Taparelli
Feast day of St Alberto
Hurtado Cruchaga
Hurtado Cruchaga's ministry
included pastoring to the Chilean poor. He was a chaplain
of the Catholic
Action youth movement and founder of the Chilean Trade Union
Association.
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Feast day of St Clare of Monte Falco, virgin
Feast day of St Crispus
Feast day of St Daig Maccairaill
Feast day of St Emidius
(Emygdius; Æmedius, Emigdius)
A cephalophore
Christian martyr (c.
304
during the
Diocletian persecution) and bishop also
commemorated on
August 5,
Emidius was a pagan
Teuton of Trier who became a Christian. He was ordained and
consecrated a bishop by Pope
Marcellus I
(reigned 308 -
309). When Emidius
cured a blind man, the people of Rome believed him to be the son of
Apollo
and carried him off by force to the temple of
Aesculapius
(Asclepius) on an island in the Tiber, where he reportedly cured
many of the sick. Emidius declared himself a Christian, however, and
tore down the pagan altars and smashed
a statue of Aesculapius
into pieces.
He and his followers,
Euplius
(Eupolus; Euplus), Germanus, and Valentius (Valentinus), were
decapitated at
Ascoli Piceno,
Italy, on the spot now occupied by the
Sant'Emidio Red Temple. Emidius stood up, carried his own head
to a spot on a mountain where he had constructed an oratory (the
site of the present-day
Sant'Emidio alla Grotte). A dazzling vision of
Emidius
deterred Alaric I
from destroying
Ascoli
Piceno
in 409. Or, so it is
said. In 1703, a
violent earthquake
occurred in the Marche
but did not affect Ascoli. As the city's salvation was attributed to
Emidius,
he was thenceforth a
patron
against earthquake. In the painting
The Annunciation
with St Emidius, by
Carlo Crivelli (1486),
the Archangel
Gabriel
kneels with St Emidius who holds a model of the town of Ascoli, of
which he is patron. It was painted to commemorate the papal grant (1482) of certain rights of
self-government to Ascoli's citizens.
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Guengoro
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Chantal
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the Wonder Worker
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and setting it on fire while singing songs outside people's homes.
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In Salzburg, any child born on August 18 had to
be tested for possible witchcraft. This is due to a local legend
that an evil warlock was born on that day in 1638.
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1587 Virginia
Dare (d. 1588), first English child born in North America born to Ellinor White Dare (John White's daughter)
and Ananias Dare at Roanoke Island
1750 Antonio Salieri, composer (d. 1825)
1774
Meriwether Lewis (d. 1809), American
explorer who, with William Clark, led the
first overland expedition to the
Pacific Northwest (1804–06). It is a matter of speculation whether
he committed
suicide or was murdered. Some
even suggest he might have died of malaria.
1830 Emperor Franz Josef I of Austria (d. 1916)
1896 Jack
Pickford, actor, Hollywood's first 'bad boy', (d. June
7, 1996)
1904 Max Factor, Jr
(Frank Factor), cosmetics entrepreneur (d. 1996)
 1907 The
Amazing Criswell
(d. October 4,
1982), American self-styled
prophet and actor (Night
of the Ghouls; Orgy of the Dead).
Criswell is best known for playing the host in what is often called the world's worst
movie, Plan
9 from Outer Space.
"Whereas it is true Criswell made the amazing
forecast (on the Jack Paar TV special, March 10, 1963): 'I
predict that President Kennedy will not run for reelection in
1964, because of something that will happen to him in November
1963' – Criswell also predicted ... the destruction of Denver,
shifting polar caps, Castro's assassination, and the End of the
World …
"In 1955 issue of Spaceway Science Fiction,
Criswell predicted that Mae West would be elected U.S. President
in 1960 on a pro-space travel platform and fly to the moon with
Criswell and friend George Liberace five years later!" Source
See foot of page for some amazing Amazing
Criswell prophecies!
1917 Caspar Weinberger, former United States Secretary
of Defense in President Ronald
Reagan's administration
1918
Walter Joseph Hickel, former Governor of Alaska, former US Secretary of the Interior
1922
Shelley Winters, American actress (The Poseidon Adventure; Lolita)
1925 Brian
Aldiss, writer
1927 Rosalynn Carter, First Lady
1932 William R Bennett, Premier of British Columbia, Canada
1933 Roman Polanski,
born Roman Liebling, Polish-born film director (Rosemary's Baby; Tess).
He was convicted of the statutory
rape of a 13-year-old girl and fled to Europe to escape
incarceration.
After Polanski fled from the
American justice the judge on his case swore to have him behind the
bars. Though the judge died in 1989 the director still can't enter
the US, otherwise he would be arrested.
On
August 10, 1969, while he was out of
town on business, his first wife, actress Sharon Tate was
brutally murdered by cult leader Charles Manson
and his cult members; she was eight months pregnant with their first
child.
1934 Vincent Bugliosi, prosecuting attorney
in the
Charles Manson case
and a vocal critic of US
President
George W Bush on the grounds that he is a war criminal and mass
murderer (The
Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder). Bugliosi
claims that Bush actually considered provoking
Saddam
Hussein into starting a war by flying U2s with fighter escorts
over Iraq, falsely painted in UN colors. He also claims that Bush
pressured intelligence agencies to find proof that Saddam somehow
helped al-Qaeda plan the
September 11,
2001 attacks in America.
His other
books include
Helter Skelter;
Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy
and
The
Betrayal of America: How the Supreme Court Undermined the
Constitution and Chose Our President.
More
1937 Robert Redford,
American actor and director (Butch
Cassidy and the Sundance Kid; The Great Gatsby)
1943 Martin
Mull, comedian, actor
1945 Barbara Harris,
African
American R&B
singer, formerly of the
group the Toys
1952 Patrick
Swayze, American actor
1952
Elayne Boosler, comedienne
1957 Denis
Leary, comedian, actor
1958 Madeleine Stowe, actress
1969 Christian Slater, actor
1969
Edward
Norton, actor
1970 Malcolm-Jamal Warner, actor
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472 Death of Ricimer (born c.
405), Roman general.
1201 The
city of Riga
was founded.
1227 Death of Genghis Khan, Mongol leader, after falling from his horse.
He was born Temujin in
Mongolia c. 1155/1162/1167. Temujin became a tribal
leader and united many tribes in Mongolia before beginning his quest of
conquering much of Asia and Europe. Before he began his attack he changed his
name to Genghis (Genghiz) Kahn, which means 'King of the Earth', or 'Khan of All Who Live in Felt
Tents'.
His empire stretched from
China's Yellow Sea to Dnieper in Russia, and to the Arabian Sea. Before he died, he divided his empire
into four regions among his four sons.
Mongol chronology
1276 Death of Pope Adrian V.
1541 A
Portuguese
ship drifted ashore in the ancient Japanese
province of Higo
(modern day Kumamoto
Prefecture). (Traditional Japanese
date: July
27, 1541.)
1559 Death of Pope Paul IV.
 1587 Virginia
Dare, granddaughter of Governor John White of the Colony
of Roanoke, became the first English child born in the Americas.
1590
John White, the governor of the
Colony of Roanoke in America, returned from a supply trip to
England to find the settlement entirely deserted of all 117 people, including the first white child born in the country, his granddaughter
Virginia Dare, whose third birthday it was.
Nine days after Virginia's birth, on August 27, 1587, White had left
the colony for England, acting as Roanoke's agent in obtaining further aid and
assistance for the colony. He arrived in England that November as the nation was
about to go to war with Spain. It was not until August 1590 that White reached Roanoke
with a relief expedition. It found no trace of the settlers – only the word
CROATOAN carved on a post (see quote at top of this page). The infant Virginia
had vanished along with all the other Roanoke colonists.
It is likely that they
did leave for Croatoan Island,
an island near Cape Hatteras, North
Carolina and it is believed by many that what survivors of the 'Lost Colony'
there may have been were absorbed into the Croatan tribe. This theory was
proposed in the 1880s by Hamilton MacMillan, who lived near a settlement of Pembroke
Indians (in Robeson County in southeastern North Carolina), many of whom claimed
that their ancestors came from "Roanoke
 in Virginia". It seems the Pembrokes
spoke archaic English and bore surnames of many of the lost colonists. Also, "Roanoke in Virginia" was how Sir Walter Raleigh and other contemporaries of
John White referred to Roanoke Island.
(Quite a few sources put the day of White's arrival at the
Roanoke settlement at August
17; however, Hakluyt (Richard Hakluyt,
Principal
Navigations, Voyages of the English
Nation, Vol. III, 1600) makes it clear that it was the 18th (see quote above). On August 17 the expedition was in the vicinity of the
island but fought a gale throughout the day, losing seven men to drowning. That
night they overshot their destination, and it was the next morning that they
landed at the settlement.)
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1563
Death of Étienne de La
Boétie (b. 1530),
French judge and writer.
He served with Montaigne
(1553 - 1592)
in the Bordeaux
parlement,
becoming his friend, and is immortalized in Montaigne's essay
on friendship
("Because of him, there is me."). His principal work was an essay attacking
absolute monarchy,
Discours de la servitude volontaire (published in English as The
Politics of Obedience: Discourse
of Voluntary Servitude), in which he stated that tyrants have power
because the people give it to them. It was published posthumously by Montaigne
and is considered an early precursor of anarchism. Around 1833 Ralph
Waldo Emerson wrote his poem, 'Étienne de la Boèce'. Tolstoy
used extracts from the Discourse in three of his books. In 1907 Gustav
Landauer made the Discourse central to his own anarchist work, Die
Revolution.
Sources: The
Daily Bleed et al
 1634 Father
Urbain Grandier (15?? - 1634), was found guilty of 'diabolical pact' and
the practice of witchcraft, sentenced to death and burned at the stake as
a witch.
On June 2, 1630, a group of Ursuline nuns
accused the parish priest of St-Pierre-du-Marché of Loudun, Vienne, France, of having bewitched them, sending the demon Asmodai among
others to commit evil with them (today this is considered a case of collective hysteria).
It was Cardinal Richelieu who had orchestrated
his murder, first having Grandier arrested and imprisoned in the Castle of
Angers. Grandier was brought before the clerics de Laubardemont, Lactance, Surin and Tranquille. Although some of the
nuns took pity on the priest and tried to retract their accusations, his
prosecutors forbade them to, saying this was a ploy of Satan to save Grandier.
Laubardemont even went so far as to proclaim that any citizen who testified in
favour of Grandier would be arrested and have his or her possessions
confiscated.
The torture
immediately before Grandier's execution was supervised by the Capuchin
Tranquille, who subjected him to the boots.
Urbain
Grandier by Alexandre Dumas,
pere free
online (Project Gutenberg)
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1,000 years of Christian
barbarity
1682 The Trial of the
Bideford Witches.
1773
James Boswell and Samuel
Johnson embarked on seven-week tour of the Hebrides.
1782 William
Blake (1757 - 1827), aged 24, married Catherine Sophia Boucher, an illiterate woman whom he taught to share his love of literature.
1783
A UFO sighting occurred at
9.45pm when four people four witnesses on the terrace of Windsor Castle observed
a glowing object in the skies of the Home Counties of England.
"The sighting was recorded
the following year in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
According to this report, witnesses observed an 'oblong cloud moving more or
less parallel to the horizon. Under this cloud could be seen a luminous object
which soon became spherical, brilliantly lit, which came to a halt; This strange
sphere seemed at first to be pale blue in colour but then its luminosity
increased and soon it set off again towards the east. Then the object changed
direction and moved parallel to the horizon before disappearing to the
south-east ; the light it gave out was prodigious; it lit us everything on the
ground'." Source
Pictured
above: The image is by Thomas
Sandby (a founder of the Royal
Academy) and his brother Paul, both of whom witnessed the event. Source
1786 Lord Sydney announced
Britain's plan to settle what is now called Australia.
1809 Death of Matthew Boulton
(b. 1728), pioneering industrialist and member
of the Lunar Society.
1812 England: Lady Ludd 'led' Corn
Market riot of women and boys, Leeds.
1864 American Civil War: Battle of Weldon Railroad – Forces under
Union
General Ulysses S Grant tried to cut a vital Confederate supply-line into Petersburg, Virginia, by attacking the Weldon Railroad, forcing the Confederates to use
wagons.
 1873 A fireball (pictured at right; etching by Henry Robinson) was seen across the skies above Newark-on-Trent,
England.
1919 The Anti-Cigarette League of
America was founded.
1920 19th Amendment to
US constitution was passed, guaranteeing women's suffrage.
1930 The steel arch of Sydney
Harbour Bridge was completed
1939 The hit movie The
Wizard of Oz was released in New York.
1938 The Thousand Islands Bridge, connecting the United
States with Canada,
was dedicated by US President Franklin D Roosevelt.
1941 Holocaust: Adolf
Hitler ordered an end to the systematic euthanasia
of mentally
ill and handicapped persons due to protests within Germany.
1950 A four-month-old
kitten, following a climbing party, scaled the Matterhorn after a three-day
journey.
1958 Vladimir Nabokov's controversial novel Lolita was
published in the USA.
1960 The first oral contraceptive
was marketed.
1963 American civil rights movement: James
Meredith became the first black person to graduate from the University of Mississippi.
1965 Vietnam War: Operation Starlite began – 5,500 United States Marines destroyed a Viet Cong
stronghold on the Van Tuong peninsula in Quang Ngai Province in the first major American
ground battle of the war. The Marines were tipped-off by a Viet Cong deserter
who said that there was an attack planned against the US base at Chu Lai.
1966 The first of eight huge
demonstrations by Red Guards took place in Peking (Beijing).
1969 USA: Final day of the
Woodstock
Festival;
Jimi Hendrix played what is probably his most celebrated
performance, including his famous version of 'The
Star-Spangled Banner', as seen in this video below:
The crowd, estimated at over 500,000 at its peak,
is reported to have been no larger than 80,000 when Hendrix and his band
The Jimi
Hendrix Experience began performing. The set lasted two hours – the longest
of Hendrix's career – and featured 17 songs, concluding with 'Hey
Joe', but it played to a relatively empty 'house'.
1969 British singer Marianne
Faithfull collapsed with a drug overdose in Australia.
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1971 Vietnam War: Australia and New Zealand
decided to withdraw their troops from Vietnam.
1976 In North
Korea at Panmunjom, two US soldiers were killed while trying to chop down part
of a tree in the DMZ which had obscured their view.
1982 Australian millionaire
businessman, publisher and adventurer Dick Smith became the first person to
cross the Atlantic by helicopter.
1983 Hurricane Alicia hit the Texas coast, killing
22 and causing more than USD
$1 billion in damage (1983 dollars).
1984 South Africa was expelled
from the Olympic movement because of apartheid.
1989 Leading presidential hopeful Luis Carlos Galán was assassinated near Bogotá in Colombia.
1991 Collapse of the Soviet
Union: Soviet President
Mikhail Gorbachev was put under
house arrest while he was vacationing in the
Crimea. The coup was led by eight high-ranking hard-liners opposed to sweeping reforms of recent years. He was detained and troops were sent to Moscow, Leningrad, and the Baltics. The coup collapsed in less than 72 hours, largely because the conspirators failed to arrest the popularly elected President of the Russian Republic, Boris Yeltsin, who rallied the opposition.
1992 Wang
Laboratories filed for bankruptcy.
1996 USA: The prison population had risen to nearly 1.6 million inmates in 1995, double the number of a decade previously, the Justice Department announced. (Reuters, Washington, DC). The USA, by 1999, had the largest per capita prison population in the world.
Source: The Daily Bleed
2004 In
Dublin, Ireland
the Dublin
Port Tunnel excavation works were completed.
2005
Dennis Rader was sentenced to 175 years in prison for the BTK
serial killings.
2005 Massive
power blackout hit the Indonesian
island of Java,
affecting almost 100 million people.
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Prophecies by the Amazing Criswell from from
Criswell Predicts: Your Future from Now to the Year 2000! (1968).
The jacket blurb claimed "87% of Criswell's predictions come true!".
1979 Scientists will use a "ray treatment" to cure juvenile delinquency, converting patients into
"meek conformists".
Late 1970s Antigravity discovered by female Nebraskan physicist.
Nov 28 to Dec 21, 1980 "A sudden release of gas from a large chamber" causes
cannibalism in Pittsburgh, USA. "Over one thousand flesh-mad and blood-crazed men will wander the streets, suddenly attacking unsuspecting victims."
1981 Birth control has advanced to putting contraceptives in the water supply and altering electricity with
"certain ionic particles that prevent conception".
Feb 11 to May 11, 1983 Female baldness due to "gaseous fumes polluting the city's air" plagues
St Louis, USA. Husbands flock to divorce courts to separate from their bald-headed wives.
May 1, 1988 to Mar 30, 1989 "Clouds of an aphrodisiacal fragrance" cause uncontrollable lust across the USA.
"Many men will fragrantly expose themselves in public!".
Jun 9, 1989 Denver, Colorado is attacked by "a strange and terrible pressure from outer space, which will cause all solids to turn into a jelly-like mass".
Jun 1, 1995 A state of utopia exists on Earth, due to the swift elimination of fossil fuels (replaced by solar power), nudity taboos, disease, crime, economic markets, tight underwear, eyeglasses, many sports and natural insemination.
1999 Two hundred space colonies contain the only survivors of humanity when, on
Aug 18, all Earth's oxygen is sucked away by a mysterious force. Earth, as a result, loses its gravity and floats of into space.
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are both excellent resources that aid my research.
I frequently make use of their generously liberal 'fair use', 'copyleft'
and 'anti-copyright' policies, with much gratitude.
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