Wednesday October 12, 1492
A date scroll with Latin text from “The Extremes of Good and Evil” by Cicero, written in 45 BC.

October 12, 1492: Day of the Week

October 12, 1492 was the 286th day of the year 1492 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 80 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Wednesday.

The day of the week for October 12, 1492 under the old Julian calendar was Friday. Did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

If you are trying to learn Japanese then this day of the week in Japanese is Suiyōbi.

A person born on this day will be 531 years old today. If that same person saved a Nickel every day starting at age 4, then by now that person has accumulated $9,641.05 today.

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Here’s the October 1492 Gregorian calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly 1492 calendar.

October 1492
SunMonTueWedThuFriSat
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9101112131415
16171819202122
23242526272829
3031     

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Zodiac & Birthstone

Libra is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Opal is the modern birthstone for this month. Jasper is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

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October 12, 1492 by the Numbers

  • 194,282 days since October 12, 1492
  • 531 years, 11 months, and 3 days ago
  • 6,383 months since then
  • October 12 is in the 41st week of the year 1492 (ISO 8601)
  • 27,754 weeks ago
  • The year 1492 is a leap year

October 12, 1492 Historical Event(s)

1492
Christopher Columbus’s expedition makes landfall in the Caribbean, specifically in The Bahamas. The explorer believes he has reached India

Gregorian versus the old Julian calendar

A note to students, teachers, scholars and anyone else passionate about this topic. As stated in the front page, this website is using the Gregorian calendar as the basis for all “day of the week” computation whether or not the Gregorian calendar is relevant for the date in question (October 12, 1492). Educators should point out the primary reason why Pope Gregory XIII introduced a new calendar system in October 1582. That is, to make the computation for the annual date of Easter more accurate since it is the foundation of the Christian faith.

Even with that purpose in mind, the Gregorian calendar too will become out of sync. It has a known approximation error of about one day for every 7,700 years assuming a constant time interval between vernal equinoxes (which is not true). This is better compared to the one day for every 128 years error of the Julian calendar.

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