French Republican calendar

1 month ago - The Concordat of 1801 re-established ... as the state religion of France. The concordat took effect from Easter Sunday, 28 Germinal, Year XI (8 April 1802); it restored the names of the days of the week to the ones from the Gregorian calendar, and fixed Sunday as the official day ...

May 19, 2016 - As for the seven-day week, it was replaced by a ten-day cycle called a ‘décade‘: day names were changed to primidi (oneday), duodi (twoday), tridi (threeday), quartidi (fourday etc.), quintidi, sextidi, septidi, octidi, nonidi and décadi.

August 19, 2025 - And instead of the usual monday (lundi), mardi (tuesday), wednesday (mercredi), the days of the week changed names as well: Clock in the French Republican Calendar, courtesy of Wikipedia · In addition, each day in the new French Revolutionary ...

It was also agreed that each day ... names could not be used any more, so new 'day-names' were proposed: primidi, duodi, rdidi, quartidi, quintidi, sextidi, septidi, octidi, nonidi and décadi....

December 17, 2024 - In some respects, it hewed closely ... each month, the commission leaned into the decimal logic. Weeks would now be ten days long and would be called décades....

October 26, 2022 - Then, under the leadership of Napoleon ... it was not declared the official state religion. The Concordat also restored the Gregorian names of weekdays and reestablished Sundays as the official days of rest for government ...

February 21, 2021 - The French Republic was established in 1792, three years after the start of the French Revolution. The members of the new Republican Government didn’t just deal with wiping out the royal family and as many nobles as they could, it was also about establishing a new order of equality and unity. You were no longer Monsieur or Madame, but Citoyen or Citoyenne. Regional divisions were reorganised. And the traditional Gregorian calendar with its seven day week and Saints Days and Christian festivals was eliminated.

August 25, 2023 - The authors of the calendar changed the names of months and the days of the week, eliminating all Judeo-Christian religious references and replacing these with Latin-based names that most frequently referred to plants and other natural phenomena.

September 18, 2013 - The days of the week also disappeared, those of the decade being named primidi, duodi, tridi, quartidi, quintidi, sextidi, septidi, octidi, nonidi and décadi (the latter being a day of rest).

February 10, 2022 - And the names for these new units of time? The days of the week were sort-of Latin: primidi, duodi, tridi, quartidi, quintidi, sextidi, septidi, octidi, nonidi and décadi. Décadi was the day of rest.

The French Republican (or Revolutionary) calendar (adopted 1793, used officially until 1805) replaced the seven-day week with a 10-day décade for civil and civic scheduling, but work and rest patterns were more complex in practice.

June 16, 2022 - Implemented during the French Revolution, it was thought up to simplify time and better regulate work. Clocks/calendars were changed so that a week now had 10 days, a day had 10 hours, an hour had a 100 minutes, and a minute had a 1000 seconds.

July 20, 1998 - Each of the 360 days in the year was named for a seed, tree, flower, fruit, animal, or tool, replacing the saints’-day names and Christian festivals. Among the notable historical events marked by the republican calendar were the consolidation ...

April 11, 2018 - The days of the week received names aligning with the number of the day: 1. Primidi 2. Duodi 3. Tridi 4. Quartidi 5. Quintidi 6. Sextidi 7. Septidi 8. Octidi 9. Nonidi 10. Décadi · The Revolutionary Calendar lasted until shortly after the French Revolution ended, at Napolean’s coronation on December 2, 1804.

July 12, 2023 - The authors of the calendar changed the names of months and the days of the week, eliminating all Judeo-Christian religious references and replacing these with Latin-based names that most frequently referred to plants and other natural phenomena.

April 16, 2019 - In revolutionary France, an hour was almost twice as long, a minute slightly longer, and a second slightly shorter. Not only were frustrated clockmakers flummoxed, but, as Zerubavel explains, the calendar intentionally disrupted “church-attending practices, since it presented both practical and cognitive difficulties in keeping up with the traditional, sacred seven-day cycle.” It also meant you had to wait nine days for a weekend instead of six.

October 1, 2020 - These days were proclaimed as national holidays and named after Republican qualities. They would be known as Virtue Day, Talent Day, Labor Day, Opinion Day, and Honors Day. The leap year holiday would be Revolution Day.

February 3, 2021 - The French revolutionaries opted to change the week from 7 to 10 days and it worked for a while. Napoleon grasped power of France in 1799 with a coup in November and eventually proclaimed himself Emperor of France in 1804.

October 17, 2025 - The French Republican calendar (also known as the Revolutionary calendar) was introduced during the French Revolution to replace the Gregorian calendar and begin a new era. The calendar was based on scientific rather than Christian principles.