New
Year's Day is celebrated all over the world on
first day of the year,
January 1, and it
is according to the Gregorian calendar and falling
exactly one week after Christmas Day of
the previous year.
In the middle ages, most European countries used
the Julian calendar
and observed New Year’s Day on March
25 and it was known Annunciation
Day .It was celebrated as the occasion
on which it was revealed to Saint Mary that she
would give birth to the Son of God, the Jesus
Christ. With the introduction of the Gregorian
calendar in 1582, Roman Catholic countries
began to celebrate New Year’s Day on January
1.
Scotland accepted the Gregorian calendar in 1600;
Germany, Denmark, and Sweden about 1700; and England
in 1752.
March 1st was the first day of the numbered year
in the Republic of Venice until its destruction
in 1797. September 1st was used in Russia from
1492 until the adoption of the Christian era in
1700.
In Christmas Style dating the New Year started
on 25 December. This was used in Germany and England
until the thirteenth century and in Spain from
the fourteenth to the sixteenth century.
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