JULIAN PERIOD is a term of years often employed in chronology, n order to avoid the ambiguity attendant on reckoning any time antr a-dent to our sera. The Julian Period consists of 7930 years, and ie vekoned se having begun 4713 years before our ;era; so that the ,resent year 1560 correspond„ to 6573 Jul. Per. The era of the !radian, or Anna MutuIi, which has been used by Christian and Jewish niters, cannot be considered as a fixed point, as chronologists and atentroversialists are not agreed as to the precise time of its commence ment, some placing the creation 4004 years Lc., others, such as the early Alexandrian Christians, 5502 n.c., and the Greeks and Russian's it 550S Lc. The Julian Period is produced by the multiplication of lie lunar cycle 19, solar cycle 23, and Roman indiction 15. [Ps.ftions ,r It evourrto:.] JULY, now the seventh, was originally the fifth, month of the year, July, now the seventh, was originally the fifth, month of the year, and wan called by the Romans, in regard to its numericapatation, Quinfills, Mark Antony altered the name to Julius, the gentile name Df Otitis Cassar, the Dictator, who was born in it. So Festus, "Julius, omens oppellaruni vial to ovum dicitur Julius statue In the old Latin or Alban calendar, Quintilis had a complement of 36 days. Romulus reduced them to 31 ; Nuns to 30 ; but Julius Caesar restored the day of which l'ittnia lied deprived it, which it has ever since retained.
Our Anglo-Saxon ancestors called July Marl-niosaiA, "mesa month," from the meads being then in their bloom; and litha-oltera,"the latter mild month," in contradistinction to June, which they considered and named a*" the former mild month."
JUNE, the sixth month of the year, named from tho Latin Junius. June, the sixth month of the year, named from tho Latin Junius. Ovid, in his ' Fanti (vi. 25) makes Juno assert that the name was expressly given in honour of herself : " Ne tamest ignores vulgique errors traharip, Junlue ? noetro nonilne nomen habct." In another part of the ' Faati (vi. 87) he gives the derivation d float:me bus ; as May baa been derived from Majores :— " JoutusestpTeuum; gut Putt ante sennm." Those who derive the name from Janine Brutus, who began his consulship in this month, forget that, according to tradition, it had received the appellation long before.
In the old Latin or Alban calendar June was the fourth month, and consisted of 26 days. Romulus is said to have assigned it a comple ment of 30 days. Nun" who made it the sixth month, deprived it of one day, which was restored by Julius Caesar, since which time it has remained undisturbed.
The Anglo-Saxons had several names for the month of June. They called it aeor-monoth, month" ; athissmer-monath, "midsummer month"; and lithe-errra, earlier mild month," in contradistinction to July.
In this month is the summer solstice. Pitiscus tells us that in the Roman times the month of Juno was considered to be " nuptiis aptissimns."