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Our new year was really great!!! rofl blaugh biggrin My relatives came to visit us and we celebrated new year. It was amazing although my cousins were just playing the computer. But still it is great. We had lots and lots of food and games!!!! and Offcourse we never tend to forget FIREWORKS display! They are so CooL!and we didn't got ot sleep... yepey for us! dramallama burning_eyes Since were already talking about new year, just let me show you the meaning of the said event...
The New Year is an event that happens when a culture celebrates the end of one year and the beginning of the next year. Cultures that measure yearly calendars all have New Year celebrations.
and did you know that new year was first adopted in VENICE......
Adoption of 1 January as New Year
It took quite a long time before the adoption of the 1st of January as the start of the year became widespread. The years of adoption are as follows -
* 1522 Venice
* 1544 Holy Roman Empire. The area covered included Germany, Austria and their future territories.
* 1556 Spain, Portugal, Roman Catholic (southern) Netherlands. This extended to all Spanish and Portuguese territories and outposts in the Americas and around the world.
* 1559 Prussia, Denmark, Sweden
* 1564 France. The dating applied to all subsequently acquired French territories.
* 1579 Lorraine
* 1583 Protestant (northern) Netherlands
* 1600 Scotland
* 1725 Russia, and its future territories.
* 1721 Tuscany
* 1752 Britain and its colonies. This included the east coast of what would become the United States and Canada. Also as each part of the world came within the sway of English law, the English style dates applied. Over time that would include large swathes of Africa, India, Malaysia, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand, etc.
When the Gregorian calendar started to be adopted, at different times in different countries, after 1582, the new year's day was again unaligned, with the countries still using the Julian calendar being 10 days behind those that adopted the Gregorian calendar. The discrepancy increased to 11 days in 1700, 12 days in 1800, and 13 days in 1900 (see Gregorian calendar article section on the difference between Gregorian and Julian calendar dates).
The ancient Roman New Year of 1 March was used in the Republic of Venice until its destruction in 1797, and in Russia from 988 until 1492 (AM 7000). 1 September was used in Russia from 1492 until the adoption of the Christian era in 1700 via a December 1699 decree of Tsar Peter I (previously, Russia had counted years since the creation of the world—Anno Mundi).
Since the 17th century, the Roman Catholic ecclesiastic year has started on the first day of Advent, the Sunday nearest to St. Andrew's Day (30 November).
Autumnal equinox day (usually 22 September) was "New Year's Day" in the French Republican Calendar, which was in use from 1793 to 1805. This was primidi Vendemière, the first day of the first month. domokun
