![]() The Aboriginal tribe of Murador, based in Australia, celebrates their New Year on this day. New Year’s Eve is widely celebrated by everyone who follows the Gregorian calendar, but not all people ring in the new year the same way or, in some cases, even on the same day. The first of January seemed like a good starting-over point on a new calendar. This decision had no actual astronomical basis and was influenced by the ancient feast celebrating the Roman god Janus, the god of doorways and beginnings. Don’t ask us what happened to all the poor souls whose birthdays were on October 5 to 14.Īlong with the implementation of a new calendar on October 4, 1582, the pope also decreed that each year would officially begin on January 1 instead of April 1 as had been the custom under the old lunar calendar system. The day after October 4, 1582, was therefore declared by Pope Gregory to be October 15, 1582. The transition from a lunar cycle calendar to a solar year calendar on October 4, 1582, necessitated that a few days be eliminated. ![]() The Gregorian calendar is a modified version of the Julian calendar that was introduced by Roman Emperor Julius Caesar during his reign around 44 B.C., at the suggestion of Greek astronomer and mathematician Sosigenes of Alexandria. ![]() The Gregorian calendar is based on the solar year and replaced an ancient Roman calendar that was based on the lunar cycle of the earth’s moon. The Gregorian calendar we use today was introduced by the Vatican in Rome under Pope Gregory XIII in October 1582. Prior to the adoption of the Gregorian calendar as the global standard, most of the ancient world ran on many different and diverse calendaring systems to track the passage of time. New Year’s Eve on December 31 marks the final day of what is known as a Gregorian calendar year. ![]()
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