We all celebrate the New Year on the 1st of January, no matter what country you live in. I am sure that only some of you know the origin of the Western New Year. Nowadays, the Gregorian Calendar is considered the civil calendar around the World. Why don’t you spend five minutes reading my blog to know about this festival?
Our ancient people began to celebrate The New Year about 4000 years ago. At that time, our ancient calendar had only 304 days. Ten months for a year from March to the end of December without January and February. Around 46 B.C., the Roman emperor consulted with his advisors to create the Julius Ceasar Calendar (the name of this Roman emperor). This time, the new calendar had 12 months and people began to celebrate New Year on the 1st of January. The reason that people celebrated on the 1st of January was to honor Janus- the Roman God of the beginning. Like many other festivals, ancient people sacrificed animals, decorated their homes, and exchanged gifts with relatives.
Later on, with the development of sciences and astronomy. Astronomers found the error in the Ceasar Calendar. For example, Ceasar Calendar had 365,25 days a year while in the reality, a year has 365,2422 days. Even though the error time is not much, over hundreds of years small errors accumulate into big errors that would impact enormously the people’s life. In late 1582 Pope Gregory XIII implemented the Calendar that we use today. To remember his contribution, his name was named as Calendar name. Over time, many countries had seen the benefits of the new Calendar in business and governance. They adopted the new Calendar as their civil Calendar.
Many countries celebrate the New Year with fireworks in the center of big and small cities. In New York, the owners of Time Square celebrated their first rooftop to ring New Year in 1904. The ball drop event in New York is annually live-streamed by Channels, Youtubers, and spectators to viewers around the world.
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