The Western world celebrates New Year's Day on the first of January, though that was not always the case, and it took at least two major calendrical reforms in as many millennia to cement Jan. 1 ...

Goodbye 2024! As the calendar turned to January 1, the world welcomed the year 2025 with new resolutions and hope. The year ...

To do so, they decided to base it on the Julian calendar, a solar calendar which Roman ruler Julius Caesar had adopted in 46 B.C. on the advice of Egyptian astronomer Sosigenes in an attempt to ...

Just about a week into 2025, how are you doing with keeping your New Year’s resolutions?  Many of us use the start of each ...

The tradition of celebrating the New Year has evolved over millennia, from ancient Mesopotamia's Akitu festival to the modern ...

As we flip the calendar towards a new year, there is plenty to be thankful for. Family, friends, community, and living in ...

Ancient Rome was quite a different story, it added. By 45 BC, the new Julian calendar was created, and the civil year in Rome now officially began on January 1. The Gregorian calendar also ...