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How much do you know about the “New Year”?

Ajay Prakash
Happy New Year 2023
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How much do you know about the “New Year”?

See the image. The date line has been extended eastwards to include this this group of 33 Islands.

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Which country celebrates the onset of New Year ahead of every other country? The map image showing approximate location of the Islands.

Kiribati, officially the Republic of Kiribati, is an island country in Oceania in the central Pacific Ocean. The permanent population is over 119,000, more than half of whom live on Tarawa atoll. The state comprises 32 atolls and one remote raised coral island, Banaba.Wikipedia

The tradition of las doce uvas de la suerte (The Twelve Grapes of Luck) started in the late 19th century

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In which country, people start the New Year by eating 12 grapes at the stroke of midnight, which is believed to ward off evil while boosting your chances of a prosperous and lucky new year.

However, this will work only if you manage to eat all of the grapes in a matter of seconds since they need to be gone by the time the clock finishes striking midnight.

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Identify the word which we would normally relate with a new year?

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Until 1752, (except Scotland), the Kingdom of Great Britain and its Empire at the time had retained a date other than January 1st as the official start of the year. What date was this?

Until 1752 (except Scotland), the Kingdom of Great Britain and its Empire at the time had retained 25 March as the official start of the year (though informal use of 1 January had become common.) With the Calendar (New Style) Act 1750, Britain and the Empire formally adopted 1 January as New Year’s Day and, with the same Act, also discarded the Julian calendar. The Act came into effect “following the last said day of December 1751”

The calendar was introduced by a Pope

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According to which calendar is January 1st the start of a New Year?

The Gregorian Calendar, first introduced in 1582 by Pope Gregory XIII, has become the internationally accepted civil calendar. This has January 1 as the new year. The Julian Calendar was introduced by Julius Caesar in 45 BC. It eventually standardized 21 March as the the new year, the date of the vernal equinox. The Hindu solar calendar has new year dates around April 13th – Baisakhi, Puthandu, Vishu. Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, meaning “first of the year,”. The festival begins on the first day of Tishrei, the seventh month of the Hebrew calendar, which falls during September or October.

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By what name or names are the various ‘New Years’ celebrated in India?

There are numerous days throughout the year celebrated as New Year’s Day in the different regions of India. The observance is determined by whether the lunar calendar is being followed or the solar calendar. Vishu (Kerala), Baisakhi (Punjab), Navreh (Kashmir), Ugadi (Andhra, Telangana, Karnataka), Puthandu (Tamil Nadu), Chaitra Navaratri (Most of the Hindi speaking states, Gudi Padwa (Maharashtra, Goa) just  to name a few.

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