For other uses, see New Year (disambiguation).
New Year's Eve celebration in Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
New Year is the time at which a new calendar year begins and the calendar's year
count is incremented. In many cultures, the event is celebrated...
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For other uses, see New Year (disambiguation).
New Year's Eve celebration in Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
New Year is the time at which a new calendar year begins and the calendar's year
count is incremented. In many cultures, the event is celebrated in some manner.[1]
The New Year of the Gregorian calendar, today in worldwide use, falls on 1 January
(New Year's Day), as was the case with the Roman calendar. There are numerous
calendars that remain in regional use that calculate the New Year differently.
The order of months in the Roman calendar was January to December since the reign
of King Numa Pompilius in about 700 BC, according to Plutarch and Macrobius. It was
only relatively recently that 1 January again became the first day of the year in
Western culture. Until 1751 in England and Wales (and all British dominions) the
new year started on 25 March ? Lady Day, one of the four quarter days (the change
to 1 January took place in 1600 in Scotland).[2] Since then, 1 January h
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