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Message: <blockquote data-quote="wkmac" data-source="post: 1487540" data-attributes="member: 2189"><p>ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY – On 1st January, 45 BC, the Julian calendar took effect as the civil calendar of the Roman Empire, establishing January 1 as the new date of the new year. After Julius Caesar reformed the calendar and was subsequently murdered, the Roman Senate voted to deify him on the 1st January 42 BC in honor of his life and his institution of the new rationalized calendar. The month originally owes its name to the deity Janus, the god of beginnings and transitions, who had two faces, one looking forward and the other looking backward. Janus comes from the Latin word for door (ianua) since January is the door to the year. Picture: ‘January’, from the Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry</p></blockquote><p></p>