NEW YEAR’S DAY, first day of the year, January 1 in the Gregorian calendar. In the Middle Ages most European countries used the Julian calendar and observed New Year’s Day on March 25, called Annunciation Day and celebrated as the occasion on which it was revealed to Mary that she would give birth to the Son of God. With the introduction of the Gregorian calendar in 1582, Roman Catholic countries began to celebrate New Year’s Day on January 1.
Taken from New Year's Day in Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
Chinese New Year (Chun Jie) is the most important festival in the Chinese lunar calendar. Chun Jie means the "spring festival," and based on the almanac of the emperor Han Wu Di (140–87 BCE), it falls on the first day of the first month, which does not correspond to January first of the Western, Gregorian calendar. It is celebrated for fifteen days and culminates at the first full moon of the new year.
Taken from Chinese New Year in the Encyclopedia of Modern Asia through Gale Virtual Reference Library
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