The months of the year and Leap Day

Adyson Hammock reporter@greenepublishing.com The twelve months of the year, January through December, are not something we think about much. We simply use them to tell the date, and that’s it. However, there is an extensive history behind how today’s calendar came to be.  The calendar we currently use is called the Gergorian calendar. The Gregorian calendar is based on the Roman calendar, which had twelve months, much like ours. However, the Roman calendar only had ten months with