Mrthfx

Some problems with my table.

I managed to poach ideas from this entry: Make list of sentences in table break normally and created this longtable (without using tabularx).
It works ... okay-ish.

Here are issues I was hoping to get some help with:

• The month numbers in the first column are aligned right. I'd like
  them centered.


• The words in "Column Two" are not properly aligned.


• On the second sceen capture, there is a huge gap between the
  sentences in the fourth column. That's because the first sentence ("I
  told him, etc.") is quite short. Of course, I could fix it manually, but would there be a way to make this adjustment more automatic?

Thank you.

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        caption{This is a test.}label{test} \

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        Month number & Months in the languages of the Five Empires & Date of the month & Deity or group celebrating the event, location, name of the

        celebration, and notes \

        midrule

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        caption*{autoref{test} (textit{Continued})} \

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        Month & Months in the languages of the Five Empires & Date & Events \

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        1 &begin{tabular}[t]{l}

            French: Bonjour\

            German: Hallo\

            French: Bonjour\

            German: Hallo\

            end{tabular}

        & 1st & Call me Ishmael. Some years ago—never mind how long precisely—having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world. \

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            French: Bonjour

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        & '' & What of it, if some old hunks of a sea-captain orders me to get a broom and sweep down the decks? \

        && '' & Call me Ishmael. Some years ago—never mind how long precisely—having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world. \

        && '' & What of it, if some old hunks of a sea-captain orders me to get a broom and sweep down the decks? \

        && '' & Call me Ishmael. Some years ago—never mind how long precisely—having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world. \

        && 15th-16th & What of it, if some old hunks of a sea-captain orders me to get a broom and sweep down the decks? \

        && 23rd & But no more of this blubbering now, we are going a-whaling, and there is plenty of that yet to come. Let us scrape the ice from our frosted feet, and see what sort of a place this Spouter may be. \



        2 &begin{tabular}[t]{l}

            French: Bonjour\

            German: Hallo\

            French: Bonjour\

            German: Hallo\

            German: Hallo\

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        && '' & Call me Ishmael. Some years ago—never mind how long precisely—having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world. \

        && 23rd & What of it, if some old hunks of a sea-captain orders me to get a broom and sweep down the decks? \

        && 28th & But no more of this blubbering now, we are going a-whaling, and there is plenty of that yet to come. Let us scrape the ice from our frosted feet, and see what sort of a place this Spouter may be. \



        3 &begin{tabular}[t]{l}

            French: Bonjour\

            German: Hallo\

            French: Bonjour\

            German: Hallo\

            German: Hallo\

        end{tabular} & 4th & I told him that I never liked to sleep two in a bed; \

        && '' & Call me Ishmael. Some years ago—never mind how long precisely—having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world. \

        && '' & What of it, if some old hunks of a sea-captain orders me to get a broom and sweep down the decks? \

        && '' & Call me Ishmael. Some years ago—never mind how long precisely—having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world. \

        && 7th & What of it, if some old hunks of a sea-captain orders me to get a broom and sweep down the decks? \

        && 31st & But no more of this blubbering now, we are going a-whaling, and there is plenty of that yet to come. Let us scrape the ice from our frosted feet, and see what sort of a place this Spouter may be. \

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In the following MWE, I have replaced >{raggedrightarraybackslash}p{1.2cm} by >{centeringarraybackslash}p{1.2cm} inorder to solve the first issue. In order to remove the second and third issue, I have used multirow.

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        Month number & Months in the languages of the Five Empires & Date of the month & Deity or group celebrating the event, location, name of the

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            German: Hallo\

            French: Bonjour\

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            French: Bonjour

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        && '' & What of it, if some old hunks of a sea-captain orders me to get a broom and sweep down the decks? \

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