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New Year's Day

In the Gregorian calendar, New Year's Day is the first day of the calendar year, 1 January. Most solar calendars (like the Gregorian and Julian) begin the year regularly at or near the northern winter solstice, while cultures and religions that observe a lunisolar or lunar calendar celebrate their Lunar New Year at less fixed points relative to the solar year.

This article is about the first day of the Gregorian calendar year. For the first day in other calendars, see New Year. For other uses, see New Year's Day (disambiguation).

New Year's Day

Users of the Gregorian calendar

International

The first day of the year in the Gregorian calendar

Making New Year's resolutions, church services, parades, parties, sporting events, fireworks[1]

1 January

1 January 2025 (2025-01-01)

Annual

In pre-Christian Rome under the Julian calendar, the day was dedicated to Janus, god of gateways and beginnings, for whom January is also named. From Roman times until the middle of the 18th century, the new year was celebrated at various stages and in various parts of Christian Europe on 25 December, on 1 March, on 25 March and on the movable feast of Easter.[2][3][4]


In the present day, with most countries now using the Gregorian calendar as their civil calendar, 1 January according to Gregorian calendar is among the most celebrated of public holidays in the world, often observed with fireworks at the stroke of midnight following New Year's Eve as the new year starts in each time zone. Other global New Year's Day traditions include making New Year's resolutions and calling one's friends and family.[1]

In the in Wales, the new year is celebrated on 13 January, still based on the 19th century difference in the calendars.[20]

Gwaun Valley

in the Shetland islands celebrates Yule ('Old Christmas' rather than the December solstice) on 6 January and Newerday on 13 January.[21] Again, both dates reflect the 19th century reckoning and were not moved again in 1900.

Foula

and Enkutatash are the New Year's Days of the Coptic Egyptians and the Ethiopians, respectively. Between 1900 and 2100, both occur on 11 September in most years and on 12 September in the years before Gregorian leap years. They preserve the legacy of the ancient Egyptian new year Wept Renpet, which originally marked the onset of the Nile flood but which wandered through the seasons until the introduction of leap years to the traditional calendar by Augustus in 30-20 BC. In Ethiopia, the new year is held to mark the end of the summer rainy season.

Nayrouz

The is also called the African New Year is celebrated in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the United States on the second Sunday of June. While the name was based on the Yoruba African culture, its celebration marks the largest African celebration in the world, which more or less was started by a local tradition.[22]

Odunde Festival

The of Lesotho and South Africa celebrate Selemo sa Basotho on 1 August during the end of the Southern Hemisphere's winter. This is based on the Sotho calendar, and includes observances such as "Mokete wa lewa", a celebration that follows the harvest.

Sotho people

Several major are held on New Year's Day, including the London's New Year's Day Parade, Pasadena's Tournament of Roses Parade (also known as the "Rose Parade"), and Philadelphia's Mummers Parade. In the Bahamas, it is also associated with Junkanoos.

parades

Beginning in the 2010s, it is also the day that takes place in the fifty state park systems of the United States.[32]

First Day Hikes

The orchestra traditionally performs a New Year's concert on the morning of New Year's Day.

Vienna Philharmonic

A "" is a common tradition in some countries, where participants gather on beaches and run into the cold water. Polar Bear Clubs in many Northern Hemisphere cities have a tradition of holding organized plunges on New Year's Day, and they are often held to raise money for charity.

polar bear plunge

In , New Year's Day was called Lá na gCeapairí, or the day of the buttered bread. A possible meaning to the consumption of buttered bread was to ward off hunger and famine in the coming year, by placing the buttered bread on the doorstep in the morning. Some traditions saw parties of young people calling from house to house to receive buttered bread and occasionally Poitín,[33] or to give out buttered bread in exchange for pennies. This tradition has since died out, having been popular in the 19th century, and waning in the 1930s and 1940s.[34]

Ireland

In , Korea and areas inhabited by the Inuit, Yupik, Aleut, Chukchi and the Iñupiat, watching the first sunrise is a tradition.

Japan

college football

New Year's Day is a government and bank holiday in many countries.

In the , a variety of foods considered lucky are cooked and consumed on New Year's Day, including hopping John, red beans and rice, and collard greens.[41]

Southern United States

1 January 1724

Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied, BWV 190

1 January 1725

Jesu, nun sei gepreiset, BWV 41

1 January 1726

Herr Gott, dich loben wir, BWV 16

1 January 1729(?)

Gott, wie dein Name, so ist auch dein Ruhm, BWV 171

1 January 1735 (Christmas Oratorio Part IV)

Fallt mit Danken, fallt mit Loben

The Eastern Orthodox Church, the Anglican Church and the Lutheran Church celebrate the Feast of the Circumcision of Christ on 1 January, based on the belief that if Jesus was born on 25 December, then according to Hebrew tradition, his circumcision would have taken place on the eighth day of his life (1 January). The Roman Catholic Church celebrates on this day the Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God, which is also a Holy Day of Obligation.


Johann Sebastian Bach composed several church cantatas for the double occasion:

First Night

List of films set around New Year

List of winter festivals

Rosh Hashanah

Saint Sylvester's Day

New Year's Six

, Saturnaliorum Libri VII. (in Latin)

Macrobius

(2011), Kaster, Robert A. (ed.), Saturnalia, Vol. I, Loeb Classical Library, No. 510, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, ISBN 978-0-674-99649-6. (in English) & (in Latin)

Macrobius

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– slideshow by Life magazine

New Year's Around the World

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