Epoch Confidence
1 January 1789 CE Exact
The Positivist calendar was a Gregorian-based calendar proposed by French philosopher and Positivist Auguste Comte in 1849. It features 13 months of 28 days named after significant figures in Western history.
Each of the 364 days is also named after a historical figure, not all of whom are intended to be remembered as heroes but also as villains. Days of the week are still carried over from the Gregorian calendar, though the final day of the year, The Festival of All the Dead, is not part of a day of the week, as is the following day during leap years, The Festival of Holy Women. Leap year rules follow the Gregorian calendar.
Years are counted from 1789, the year of the French Revolution, and are denoted as "Year of the Great Crisis". Each year starts on January 1 of the Gregorian calendar.
Months Gregorian Dates Days
Moses Jan 1 - Jan 28 28 Homer Jan 29 - Feb 25 28 Aristotle Feb 26 - Mar 25 28 Archimedes Mar 26 - Apr 22 28 Caesar Apr 23 - May 20 28 Saint Paul May 21 - Jun 17 28 Charlemagne Jun 18 - Jul 15 28 Dante Jul 16 - Aug 12 28 Gutenberg Aug 13 - Sep 9 28 Shakespeare Sep 10 - Oct 7 28 Descartes Oct 8 - Nov 4 28 Frederick Nov 5 - Dec 2 28 Bichat Dec 3 - Dec 30 28 Festival of All the Dead Dec 30/31 1 Festival of Holy Women Dec 31 (leap years) 1
Weekdays
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
The Positivist calendar includes 364 days named after historical figures, organized into 13 months. Each day is named after a significant person from Western history, including philosophers, scientists, artists, and political figures. The calendar was designed to celebrate human achievement and progress.
Positivist Days
Moses Homer Aristotle Prometheus Hesiod Anaximander Hercules Tyrtaeus Anaximenes Orpheus Anacreon Heraclitus Ulysses Pindar Anaxagoras Lycurgus Sophocles Democritus Romulus Theocritus Herodotus Numa Aeschylus Thales Belus Scopas Solon Sesostris Zeuxis Xenophanes Menu Ictinus Empodocles Cyrus Praxiteles Thucydides Zoroaster Lysippus Archytas The Druids Apelles Apollonius of Tyrana Buddha Phidias Pythagoras Fo-Hi Aesop Aristippus Lao-Tzu Aristophanes Antisthenes Meng-Tzu Terence Zeno The Priests of Tibet Phaedrus Cicero The Priests of Japan Juvenal Epictetus Manco Capac Lucian Tacitus Confucius Plautus Socrates Abraham Ennius Xenocrates Joseph Lucretius Philo of Alexandria Samuel Horace St. John the Evangelist Solomon Tibullus St. Justin Isaac Ovid St. Clement of Alexandria St. John the Baptist Lucan Origen Muhammad Virgil Plato
Archimedes Caesar Saint Paul
Theophrastus Militiades St. Luke Herophilus Leonides St. Cyprian Eristratus Aristides St. Athanasius Celsus Cimon St. Jerome Galen Xenophon St. Ambrose Avicenna Phocion St. Monica Hippocrates Themistocles St. Augustine Euclid Pericles Constantine Aristarchus Philip (of Macedon) Theodosius Theodosius of Bithynia Demosthenes St. Chrysostom Hero Ptolemy Lagus St. Pulcheria Pappus Philipoemen St. Genevieve of Paris Diophantus Polybus St. Gregory the Great Apollonius Alexander (the Great) Hildebrand Eudoxus Junius Brutus St. Benedict Pytheas Camillus St. Boniface Aristarchus Fabricius St. Isidore of Seville Eratosthenes Hannibal St. Lanfranc Ptolemy Paulus Aemilius St. Heloise Albategnius Marius The Architects of the Middle Ages Hipparchus Scipio St. Bernard Varro Augustus St. Francis Xavier Columella Vespasian St. Charles Borromeo Vitruvius Adrian St. Theresa Strabo Antony St. Vincent de Paul Frontinus Papinian Bordalue Plutarch Alexander Severus William Penn Pliny the Elder Trajan Bossuet
Charlemagne Dante Gutenberg
Theodoric the Great The Troubadours Marco Polo Pelayo Bocaccio Jacques Coeur Otho the Great Cervantes da Gama St. Henry Rabelais Napier Villiers La Fontaine Lacaille Don Juan de Austria de Foe Cook Alfred (the Great) Ariosto Columbus Charles Martel Leonardo da Vinci Benvenuto Cellini El Cid Michelangelo Amontons Richard I Holbein Harrison Joan of Arc Poussin Dolland Albuquerque Murillo Arkwright Bayard Teniers Conté Godfrey Raphael Vaucanson St. Leo the Great Froissart Stevin Gerbert Camões Mariotte Peter the Hermit The Spanish Romantics Papin Suger Chateaubriand Black Alexander III Sir Walter Scott Jouffroy St. Francis of Assisi Manzoni Dalton Innocent III Tasse Watt St. Clothilda Petrarch Bernard de Palissy St. Bathilde Thomas à Kempis Guglielmini St. Stephen of Hungary Madame de Lafayette Duhamel St. Elizabeth of Hungary Fénelon Saussure Blanche of Castille Klopstock Coulomb St. Ferdinand III Byron Carnot St. Louis Milton Montgolfier
Shakespeare Descartes Frederick
Lope de Vega Albert the Great Marie de Molina Moreto Roger Bacon Cosimo de Medici Rojas St. Bonaventure Philippe de Comines Otway Ramus Isabella of Castille Lessing Montaigne Charles V Goëthe Campanella Henry IV Calderón Thomas Aquinas Louis XI Tirso Thomas Hobbes Coligny Vondel Pascal Barneveldt Racine Locke Gustavus Adolphus Voltaire Vauvernargues de Witt Alfieri Diderot Ruyter Schiller Cabanis William III Corneille Bacon William the Silent Alarcón Grotius Ximénez Madame de Motteville Fontenelle Sully Madame de Sévigné Vico Colbert Lesage Fréret Walpole Madame de Staal Montesquieu D'Aranda Fielding Buffon Turgot Molière Leibnitz Richelieu Pergolesi Adam Smith Sidney Sacchini Kant Franklin Gluck Condorcet Washington Beethoven Fichte Jefferson Rossini Joseph de Maistre Bolívar Bellini Hegel Francia Mozart Hume Cromwell
Bichat
Copernicus Kepler Huygens Jacques Bernoulli Bradley Volta Galileo Viète Wallis Clairaut Euler D'Alembert Lagrange Newton Bergmann Priestley Cavendish Guyton Morveau Berthollet Berzelius Lavoisier Harvey Boerhaave Linnaeus Haller Lamarck Broussais Gall
As this calendar is only a proposal, there really isn't anything to compare it to historically. It is intrinsically based on and locked to the Gregorian calendar, making it perfectly accurate.
Wikipedia article
The Citizendium website has all the day names.