New Year Celebration Why

The celebration part is obvious.

New year celebration why. In the gregorian calendar new year s eve also known as old year s day or saint sylvester s day in many countries the last day of the year is on 31 december. New year s celebrations continued to drift back and forth in the calendar even landing on christmas day at some points until pope gregory xiii implemented the gregorian calendar in 1582. Sometimes these were simply an opportunity for people to eat drink and have fun but in some places the festivities were connected to the land or astronomical events.

Many cultures celebrate the event in some manner and the 1st day of january is often marked as a national holiday. New year is the time or day at which a new calendar year begins and the calendar s year count increments by one. In many countries new year s eve is celebrated at evening parties where many people dance eat drink and watch or light fireworks some christians attend a watchnight service the celebrations generally go on past midnight into new.