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Adoption of 1 January as New Year
It took quite a long time before the adoption of the 1st of January as the start of the year became widespread. The years of adoption are as follows -

1522 Venice
1544 Holy Roman Empire. The area covered included Germany, Austria and their future territories.
1556 Spain, Portugal, Roman Catholic (southern) Netherlands. This extended to all Spanish and Portuguese territories and outposts in the Americas and around the world.
1559 Prussia, Denmark, Sweden
1564 France. The dating applied to all subsequently acquired French territories.
1579 Lorraine
1583 Protestant (northern) Netherlands
1600 Scotland
1725 Russia, and its future territories.
1721 Tuscany
1752 Britain and its colonies. This included the east coast of what would become the United States and Canada. Also as each part of the world came within the sway of English law, the English style dates applied. Over time that would include large swathes of Africa, India, Malaysia, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand, etc.
When the Gregorian calendar started to be adopted, at different times in different countries, after 1582, the new year's day was again unaligned, with the countries still using the Julian calendar being 10 days behind those that adopted the Gregorian calendar. The discrepancy increased to 11 days in 1700, 12 days in 1800, and 13 days in 1900 (see Gregorian calendar article section on the difference between Gregorian and Julian calendar dates).

The ancient Roman New Year of 1 March was used in the Republic of Venice until its destruction in 1797, and in Russia from 988 until the end of the 15th century. 1 September was used in Russia from the end of the 15th century until the adoption of the Christian era in 1700 (previously, Russia had counted years since the creation of the world).

Since the 17th century, the Roman Catholic ecclesiastic year has started on the first day of Advent, the Sunday nearest to St. Andrew's Day (30 November).

Autumnal equinox day (usually 22 September) was "New Year's Day" in the French Republican Calendar, which was in use from 1793 to 1805. This was primidi Vendemière, the first day of the first month.


Time Zones
Because of the division of the globe into time zones, the new year moves progressively around the globe as the start of the day users in the New Year. The first time zone to usher in the New Year is just west of the International Date Line. At that time the time zone to the east of the Date Line is 23 hours behind, still in the previous day. The residents on the central Pacific Ocean island of Kiritimati (Christmas Island), the eastern-most island in the island nation of Kiribati claim to be the first to usher in the New Year.

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[johnboisan]

Happy New years! - Sydney

[lesorciercalifornien]

So why '90s alt rock to celebrate the arrival of 2008?

[SlovakRNB]

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[zebras7]

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[mizelene]

Laimīgu Jauno 2008. gadu!!!

[eirelav215]

HAPPY NEW YEAR...

[okuda84]

happy new year 2008 world (^^)

[abdihamit]

sanad cusub

[stardingding]

新年快乐！

[duckdario]

feliz año nuevo