Celebrate the new year. Another year is over and everyone has their way of celebrating, but in some countries the new year does not begin on January 1st. For example, one of the earliest records of an end-of-year celebration corresponds to the Akitu spring festival celebrated in ancient Mesopotamia over four thousand years ago at the spring equinox. In the year 46 a. C., in Rome, Julio Caesar decided to move the date to January in honor to the God of the beginnings, Jano, since that way a synchrony with the movements of the Sun was obtained. It is from here that this tradition became habitual in the European territories. But in the Middle Ages, Christian leaders changed the date again because they viewed the festival as pagan, and the beginning of the year began on March 25. Later, in 1582, the reform of Pope Gregory XIII was implanted and the Gregorian calendar was created, thanks to which the year begins again on January 1st. A l
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