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Festivity
- New year’s Day - January 1 |
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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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The
years of adoption of January 1st are as follows
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• 1522 Venice
• 1529 Sweden
• 1544 Holy Roman Empire
• 1556 Spain, Portugal
• 1559 Prussia, Denmark/Norway
• 1564 France
• 1576 Southern Netherlands
• 1579 Lorraine
• 1583 Protestant of Netherlands
• 1721 Tuscany
• 1700 Russia(but the Gregorian calendar was
introduced in the Russian SFSR in 1918)
• 1752 Britain and its colonies
• 1873 Japan
• 1896 Korea
• 1912 China |
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