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MARCH , the third See also:month of the See also:modern See also:calendar, containing See also:thirty-one days. It was the See also:Romans' first month until the See also:adoption of the See also:Julian calendar, 46 B.C., and it continued to be the beginning of the legal See also:year in See also:England until the 18th See also:century. In See also:France it was reckoned the first month of the year until 1564, when, by an See also:edict of See also:Charles IX., See also:January was decreed to be thenceforth the first month. See also:Scotland followed the example of France in 1599; but in England the See also:change did not take See also:place before 1752. The Romans called the month See also:Martius, a name supposed to have been conferred on it by See also:Romulus in See also:honour of his putative See also:father, See also:Mars, the See also:god of See also:war; but See also:Ovid declares the month to have existed before the See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time of Romulus, though in a different position in the calendar. The Anglo-See also:Saxons called March Hlyd-monath, "loud or stormy month," or Lencten-monath, " lengthening month," in allusion to the fact that the days then rapidly become longer. There is an old saying, See also:common to both England and Scotland—which has its See also:equivalent among the See also:Basques and many See also:European peoples—representing March as borrowing three days from See also:April; the last three days of March being called the " borrowing " or the " borrowed days." As See also:late as the end of the 18th century the first three days of March were known in See also:Devonshire as " See also:Blind Days," and were deemed so unlucky that no See also:farmer would sow See also:seed then.
The See also:chief festival days of March are the 1st, St See also:David; the 12th, St See also:- GREGORY
- GREGORY (Gregorius)
- GREGORY (Grigorii) GRIGORIEVICH ORLOV, COUNT (1734-1783)
- GREGORY, EDWARD JOHN (1850-19o9)
- GREGORY, OLINTHUS GILBERT (1774—1841)
- GREGORY, ST (c. 213-C. 270)
- GREGORY, ST, OF NAZIANZUS (329–389)
- GREGORY, ST, OF NYSSA (c.331—c. 396)
- GREGORY, ST, OF TOURS (538-594)
Gregory; the 17th, St See also:Patrick; and the 25th, See also:Lady See also:Day, one of the See also:quarter days in England.
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