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September is special in that it has 7 different letters and 9 total letters -- numbers which correspond elegantly to both its root meaning and its calendar placement. No other month can do this trick.
September is named after the Roman Emperor Lucius Septimius Severus (a Numidian African Moor from North Africa), (AD 145 - AD 211) and has nothing to do with the number of the month.
In the Roman calendar there were only ten months - the 7th to 10th being September to December as their names suggest. It was only later when July and August (Julius and Augustus Caesar) were added that they became out of sequence
September in the Northern Hemisphere is the seasonal equivalent of March in the Southern Hemisphere.
September begins on the same day of the week as December every year, because there are 91 days separating September and December, which is a multiple of seven (the number of days in the week).
September (from Latin septem, "seven" ) was originally the seventh of ten months on the oldest known Roman calendar, with March (Latin Martius) the first month of the year until perhaps as late as 153 BC. After the calendar reform that added January and February to the beginning of the year, September became the ninth month, but retained its name. It had 29 days until the Julian reform, which added a day.
September marks the beginning of the ecclesiastical year in the Eastern Orthodox Church.
It is the start of the academic year in many countries in which children go back-to-school after the summer break, usually on 1st of September.
The equinox named the autumnal equinox in the northern hemisphere and the vernal or spring equinox in the southern hemisphere occurs on dates varying from 21 September to 24 September (in UTC).
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