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If Caesar designed the calendar, how did he get a month in there named after something that hadn’t happened yet? When Caesar died Augustus’ name was Octavian, a

• Pigalowda 4y ago
  Are you messing around? Octavius became Julius Caesar after he was adopted. And also later he was given the honorable designation by the senate and called Augustus. That’s not his name its one of his honors. Octavian is essentially a past tense of his name and he never truly went by that. It’s a name used by historians.
  • kgwgk 4y ago
    > Octavius became Julius Caesar after he was adopted. Gaius Julius Caesar
• karatinversion 4y ago
  At the time of the calendar reform, the months that are now called July and August were called Quintilis and Sextilis. The Julian calendar came into use on January 1, 45 BC. July was renamed in 44 BC (the year of Caesar’s assassination), and August in 8 BC.
• coldtea 4y ago
  Designing the calendar does mean "give a name to every month forever". You could also (a) just design the mechanics of the calendars (leap days, duration of months, etc), but keep the month names the same, or (b) change names too, which could get renamed again later.