October: Meaning (information, definition, explanation, facts)

October is the tenth month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 31 days. From the Latin octo for "eight" (it was originally the eighth month of the year, before January and February were inserted).

Holidays

• National Coming Out Day
• Halloween
• Thanksgiving Day in Canada on the second Monday of the month.
• Samhain (an approximate date)
• The last Monday in October is one of the Public Holidays in the Republic of Ireland and in the Irish Calendar the month is called Deireadh Fómhair (literally "End of Autumn") and is the third and last month of the Autumn season.

• October begins on the same day of the week as January, except in leap years.

• October's flower is the calendula.
• October's birthstone is the opal.
• The Anglo-Saxons called October Wyn-monath (Wine-month), the month for treading the wine-vats. In the Domesday Book the vineyards are perpetually mentioned.