Bolivar

Ministry of education

Name:
Bolivar Medina

Level:
9ª

Subject:
Religion

Teacher:
Jessica de Puga

Work:
New Year

Date:
Tuesday 28 of August

Year:
2012

Index

Introduction.............................................................................…...3
1.1New Year……………………………………………………………..4
2.1History………………………………………………………………..53.1New Year's Days in other calendars……………………..6,7,8,9
4.1Traditional and modern celebrations and customs………..10
4.2Regional celebrations…………………………………….10
5.1National celebrations………………………………………...11, 12
6.1New Year's Day…………………………………………………….13
6.2New Year's babies…………………………………….…...13
Illustrate………………………………………………………………...14
Conclusion……………………………………………………………..15Bibliography…………………………………………………………...16

Introduction
New Year's Day is observed on January 1, the first day of the year on the modernGregorian calendar as well as the Julian calendar used in ancient Rome. With most countries using the Gregorian calendar as their main calendar, New Year's Day is the closest thing to being the world's only truly global public holiday, often celebrated withfireworks atthe stroke of midnight as the new year starts. January 1 on the Julian calendarcurrently corresponds to January 14 on the Gregorian calendar, and it is on that date that followers of some of the Eastern Orthodox churches celebrate the New Year. New Year's Day is a postal holiday in the United States. is the time at which a new calendar year begins and the calendar's year count is incremented. Inmany cultures, the event is celebrated in some manner.[1] The New Year of the Gregorian calendar, today in worldwide use, falls on 1 January, as was the case with the Roman calendar. There are numerous calendars that remain in regional use that calculate the New Year differently.
The order of months in the Roman calendar was January to December since King Numa Pompilius in about 700 BC, accordingto Plutarch and Macrobius. According to Catholic tradition, 1 January is the day of the circumcision of Jesus (on the eighth day from his birth), when the name of Jesus was given to him (Luke 2:21).
With the expansion of Western culture to many other places in the world during recent centuries, the Gregorian calendar has been adopted by many other countries as the official calendar, and the 1January date of New Year has become global, even in countries with their own New Year celebrations on other days (such as China and India). In the culture of Latin America there are a variety of traditions and superstitions surrounding these dates as omens for the coming year.

New Year
New Year is the time at which a new calendar year begins and the calendar's year count is incremented. In manycultures, the event is celebrated in some manner.[1] The New Year of the Gregorian calendar, today in worldwide use, falls on 1 January, as was the case with the Roman calendar. There are numerous calendars that remain in regional use that calculate the New Year differently.
The order of months in the Roman calendar was January to December since King Numa Pompilius in about 700 BC, according toPlutarch and Macrobius. According to Catholic tradition, 1 January is the day of the circumcision of Jesus (on the eighth day from his birth), when the name of Jesus was given to him (Luke 2:21).
It was only relatively recently that 1 January again became the first day of the year in Western culture. Until 1751 in England and Wales (and all British dominions) the new year started on 25 March – LadyDay, one of the four quarter days (the change to 1 January took place in 1600 in Scotland).[2] Since then, 1 January has been the first day of the year. During the Middle Ages several other days were variously taken as the beginning of the calendar year (1 March, 25 March, Easter, 1 September, 25 December).[citation needed][where?] In many countries, such as the Czech Republic, Italy and the...