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Ceasar added two extra months to the calendar.
Ceasar was stabbed.
It's a shame he was stabbed. Not every idea can be good. I love the work he did with salads.
Didn't know it was Caesar that formed the calendar.
You learn something new everyday
July and August, Julius and Augustus.
"They caught him in an alley one night and stabbed him right in his toga."
-- Andy Griffith
I just want to point out that the two other responses are slightly wrong - Caesar didn't add two months, and no months moved. There were always 12 months, and September was always the month with the fall equinox. What changed was two things:
September, October, November, and December were the 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th months until Julius Caesar and Augustus Caesar decided they wanted months named after them (July and August), pushing the other months back.
Julius Caesar was famously killed by multiple stabbings.