Browsing: January

A Brief History On January 1, 2021, we take New Year’s Day to reflect on the fact that January 1st, although it is now celebrated as the beginning of the new year each year in virtually all of the western civilizations of the world today, is by no means the universal harbinger of a new year. Digging Deeper We find that this particular day was not always when people celebrated the new year in Europe as well as other parts of the world.  Various European countries started using January 1st as New Year’s Day in a hap-hazard manner between the…