Seema Kumari
New Delhi: Only two days are left for the end of December, the last month of 2021. After two days, the new year (Happy New Year 2022) will begin all over the world. In such a situation, everyone is eagerly waiting to welcome the coming year. Do you know why New Year is celebrated only on January 01? Let’s know the history of New Year –
The new year of the Gregorian calendar falls on January 1. Although there are many other calendars in practice, but according to the Gregorian calendar, the new year is celebrated all over the world.
The first of January marks the beginning of the new year. However, this was not the case earlier. Earlier the new year used to start on 25 March and 25 December. But, later the change was made and the new year started being celebrated on January.
Now you must be thinking that why did this happen? It is said that it started from Rome, where King Numa Pompilus changed the Roman calendar and after the arrival of this calendar, the new year started from the month of January.
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Now why January itself was replaced by March? Actually, the month of January was earlier called ‘Janus’. The name of the god of Rome was ‘Janus’. After whom the month was named. However, later it came to be called January.
Earlier there were only 10 months in the calendar. Later there was a change and there were 12 months of the year. When there were 10 months in the year, there were 310 in the whole year. Then there were 8 days in a week, later Julius Caesar made changes to the Roman calendar and then there was a year of 12 months and 365 days. He made the change to officially celebrate the new year on 1 January.
In such a situation, the calendar changes from midnight on December 31 all over the world and the new year starts from January. In such a situation, people celebrate from the night of December 31 and start the new year.
According to different provinces and religions in India, everyone celebrates their new year. For example, the people of Punjab celebrate their new year on April 13 as Baisakhi and the Sikhs celebrate their new year on the second day of Holi in March according to the ‘Nanakshahi calendar’.
Whereas people who believe in Jainism celebrate the new year on the second day of Diwali. It starts from the next day after the attainment of salvation of Lord Mahavir Swami. Whereas in Bengal, the new year is celebrated from Poela Baishakh and for Vikram Samvat according to the Hindu calendar. Apart from this, the beginning of the new year is considered to be different in many provinces.