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Show New Year Begins More Than Once, Believe It or Nat! New Year's day isn't always Nov Year's day. The actual date vane among the Egyptians. Chinese. Jews Romans and Mohammedans fror-September fror-September 6 to March 1. January 1 wos designated to t--New Year's day when Julius Caps.-!: established the Julian calendar n-46 n-46 B. C. However, the calcnr-'n' year thus established was 11 min utes longer than the astronomicr. year. To correct til i s discrepancy. Po Gregory III suppressed 10 days ii 1852 by ordering thai October 5 b: called Octuber 15. England and its colonies, however, did not adopt thb new calendar until 1752. For a'n.o. ' three centuries. therefore. Nc Year's was celebrated twice ever, year both times on January 1 New Year's never fell on the .Sunday .Sun-day two years in succession in oI China. The now year began on lb.-first lb.-first moon af;er the sun entered the sign Aquarius This date varicr from January 21 to February 18 Jewish New Year's. 'when translated into dates of the Gregorian calendar, varies from September 6 to Cci:-ber Cci:-ber 4. Mohammedans celebrated Mur:,r ram, or New Year's, on FebK:;'.r 10 last year. Bui it wasn't the be ginning of 1910 for them; it was tlx first day of 13"9 Because the Mohammedan Mo-hammedan calendar is arrang"d d if-ferenlly if-ferenlly from ours, the new year does not always fall on the same date according to the calendar it: use by the Christian nations. Happy New Year! When will YOU celebrate? |