HELENA NOTE ON THE REPUBLICAN CALENDAR The republican calendar consisted of twelve months of thirty days each, each month being divided into three "decades" of ten days.

Five days (in leap years six) were added at the end of the year to bring it into coincidence with the solar year.
An I began Sept.

22, 1792.
" II " " 1793.
" III " " 1794.
" IV (leap year) 1795.
* * * * * " VIII began Sept.

22, 1799.
" IX " Sept.

23, 1800.
" X " " 1801.
* * * * * " XIV " " 1805.
The new computation, though reckoned from Sept.