More Veneto
With More Veneto (Latin, abbreviated "according to the custom of Venice", m. V. ), Italian secondo l'uso Veneto , a calendar feature is called, in Venice before the delayed adoption of the Gregorian calendar was in use.
The Republic of Venice also held despite the force since 1582 Gregorian calendar first as some other Italian city-states, such as Florence , confident in the local tradition and so on Mar. style on March 1 as the date of the New Year firmly. As Capodanno , March 1st was an official festival in the Republic of Venice.
This was based on the ancient Roman Republic , in which the months of Januarius and February were appended to the old ten-month year beginning in March. It was not until the calendar reform of Gaius Iulius Caesar that the beginning of the year was set on January 1st to align with the beginning of the magistrate's year of office . The advantage of sticking to the pre-Caesarian beginning of the year was that the word meaning of the months September (Latin septem "seven"), October ( octo "eight"), November ( novem "nine") and December ( decem "ten") was preserved.
Due to the late start of the year, the months of January and February for dating more Veneto still fall in the previous year of the year according to today's count. Neglecting this difference leads to different dates in the history of Venice at that time, for example for the fire of the Teatro San Benedetto on February 5, 1774 (more veneto: 1773). It was not until 1797 that the beginning of the year on January 1st was adopted for Venice at the end of the Republic of Venice and the beginning of French rule by Napoleon .
Individual evidence
- ↑ The beginning of the year there on March 25th, the church feast of the Annunciation , until the Grand Duke Francesco III. di Lorena ordered in 1749 to take over January 1st as New Year's Day.
- ↑ a b Little Pauly s. v. Ianuarius