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New Year » Countrywise » Nepali New Year
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Nepali New Year
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The New Year is the day that symbols the beginning of a new calendar year, and is the day on which the year count of the exact calendar used is incremented. In many cultures, the event is celebrated in some manner. The New Year of the Gregorian calendar, today in universal use, falls on 1 January, continuing the practice of the Roman calendar.
There are numerous calendars that stay behind in regional use that calculate the New Year individually. The order of months in the Roman calendar has been January to December since King Numa Pompilius in about 700 BC, according to Plutarch and Microbus. However, Roman writers identified years by naming the year's consul, who did not enter office on 1 January until 153 BC.
Since then 1 January has been the first day of the year, except throughout the Middle Ages when several other days were the first (1 March, 25 March, Easter, 1 September, 25 December). With the expansion of Western civilization to the rest of the world during the twentieth century, the 1 January date became global, even in countries with their own New Year celebrations on other days (e.g., China and India).At present; the festivity of the New Year is a major event worldwide. Many large-scale events are held in major cities around the world, with many large fireworks events on New Year's Eve (31 December).
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