New Year
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New Year is the time or day currently at which a new calendar year begins and the calendar's year count increments by one. Many cultures celebrate the event in some manner. In the Gregorian calendar, the most widely used calendar system today, New Year occurs on January 1 (New Year's Day, preceded by New Year's Eve). This was also the first day of the year in the original Julian calendar and the Roman calendar (after 153 BC).
Other cultures observe their traditional or religious New Year's Day according to their own customs, typically (though not invariably) because they use a lunar calendar or a lunisolar calendar. Chinese New Year, the Islamic New Year, Tamil New Year (Puthandu), and the Jewish New Year are among well-known examples. India, Nepal, and other countries also celebrate New Year on dates according to their own calendars that are movable in the Gregorian calendar.
During the Middle Ages in Western Europe, while the Julian calendar was still in use, authorities moved New Year's Day, depending upon locale, to one of several other days, including March 1, March 25, Easter, September 1, and December 25. Since then, many national civil calendars in the Western World and beyond have changed to using one fixed date for New Year's Day, January 1Template:Mdashmost doing so when they adopted the Gregorian calendar.
See also
- New Year's Eve
- Baby New Year
- Hogmanay
- Nogbon
- Twelve Grapes
- Old New Year (or Orthodox New Year, Julian New Year)
- Assyrian New Year
- Aztec New Year
- Berber New Year
- Cambodian New Year
- Chinese New Year
- Ethiopian New Year
- Indian New Year's days
- Islamic New Year
- Japanese New Year
- Jewish New Year
- Korean New Year
- Lunar New Year
- Māori New Year
- Mongolian New Year
- Pahela Baishakh
- Pakistani New Year
- Persian New Year
- Russian New Year
- Sinhalese New Year
- Thai New Year
- Vietnamese New Year
- Old Style and New Style dates
- List of films set around New Year
