New Year History: why is new year celebrate january1
New Year History, In most parts of the world, there is a tradition of celebrating New Year on 1 January. Every year on 31 December, people celebrate and bid goodbye to the old year and welcome the new year with great enthusiasm. You too must be making a lot of preparations for New Year celebrations, but have you ever wondered why New Year starts on 1 January every year in most places of the world? Know interesting information here.
Know why we celebrate New Year on 1 January.
Actually, the new year starts on January 1 based on the Gregorian calendar. At present, this is the most popular calendar in the world. Before this, the calendar was in vogue in the Roman Empire around 45 BC. But due to this calendar being very complicated, the ruler of Rome, Julius Caesar, changed it and started the Julian calendar. For a long time, people adopted the Julian calendar. In the Julian calendar, the first month of the year was March, and the last month was February. Also, a year in it was of 365.25 days.
But due to some astronomical errors, the dates in the Julian calendar did not match. In 1582, Pope Gregory XIII of Rome discovered the leap year error in the Julian calendar and introduced the Gregorian calendar by making some corrections in the Julian calendar. The Gregorian calendar starts the new year from 1st January. In this calendar, 4 months have 30 days, 7 months have 31 days, and February has 28 days. After 3 years, . in the fourth year, a full day is added at the end of February. This is called a leap year ,and in this year, the month of February has a full 29 days.
When did the Gregorian calendar start in India.
By the 18th and 19th centuries, European powers, especially Christian rulers, dominated the entire world,and .after this most countries of the world adopted the Gregorian calendar. The Gregorian calendar was introduced in India in 1752. Since then all government work is being done in the Gregorian calendar. After the country became independent, there was a lot of discussion on whether to continue the Gregorian calendar or adopt the Hindu calendar in its place. But in the end, the Indian government adopted the Hindu Vikram Samvat along with the Gregorian. However, even today government work in India is done according to the Gregorian calendar.
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