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Show YEAR ONCE BEGAN IN MARCH -4 Change in Style May Be Said to Date From 1752 Great Militant Events in Month. Few people know, or, if they do, have forgotten, that March, and ut January, at one time was the Srst month of the year, remarks the GKI-cago GKI-cago Journal. For commencing liie year with March there seems te ke sufficient reason in the fact that It Is the first season after the "dead year," in which decided symptoms of growth take place. The name Is derived from the Romans, Ro-mans, among whom it was at an early period the first month of the year, and continued to be tn several countries to a comparatively late period, the lessul year beginning, even In England, on March 20, until the change of style U 1752. For the Romans to dedicate their first mouth to Mars and call it Martius seems equally natural, considering con-sidering (lie importance they attached to war and the use they made of it. In the history of our own country April appears to carry off the palm for the month in which great mUitant events occurred, yet In the world war a number of epoch-making Incidents took place in March; for instance, fche revolution in Russia In 1!)17, when Czar Nicholas abdicated on March 15. The big drive on the f0-uiile front from Arras to La Feu began on the 21st, and I'aris was in that month bm-barded bm-barded by "Big Bertha." |