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> The Romans switch the start to January sometime around 700 BCE That doesn’t look right.
by kgwgk 2y ago
> The Romans switch the start to January sometime around 700 BCE
That doesn’t look right.
- tzs 2y agoWell, that’s what the internet told me. But checking again it is also telling me 45 BC and 153 BC. The site that gave me the 700 BC date said it was done by king Numa Pompilius. Wikipedia’s article on him says that Plutarch is the source for the claim Numa moved the new year to January. But Plutarch was writing around the 2nd century and Wikipedia says his writings about Numa give unique information on the Roman calendar which suggests that there aren’t other sources. Probably not worth trusting a single source that old writing about something 900 years older.