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Know the facts that marked a day like today and that are now in the ephemerides of January 1st; on TV Azteca Quintana Roo we share the most relevant.What is celebrated today January 1st? New Year's Day As every January 1st is celebrated in most of the world the New Year's Day is commemorated, however, this was not always so, at first it was done in March, but it was until the arrival of Julio Cesar, who established this date as the first day of …
Every January 1st, millions of people around the world celebrate New Year. For many, it is a day of gathering, reflection and new beginnings. However, this date did not always mark the beginning of the calendar and its choice is the result of a long history. The New Year is, today, the holiday with the greatest global reach. But its meaning and date changed over time, until it was consolidated — in much of the planet — on January 1st as the star…
The day of 1 January has a long history of calendar changes and how civilizations have chosen to measure time.
The date represents the culmination of a seasonal cycle that, in the Gregorian calendar, closes the circle of end-of-year festivities. Although there are other calendars, Gregorian remains the international convention governing the economy, aviation and global politics. Read more
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Con La Gente NoticiasBuenos Aires, 31 December (NA) - Throughout the centuries, human societies developed different systems to order the passage of time, depending on their beliefs, productive activities and forms of collective organization. The calendar that today governs much of the planet — the Gregorian one — is the result of an extensive succession of adjustments and consensuses, and not an immutable convention since its origins. The oldest evidence of time mea…
Michael Stevens, one of the hosts of the podcast The Rest is Science, also known for Vsauce, suggested that he did not understand why the year starts on January 1st, that it could be any other day, and his interlocutor Hannah Fry admitted that it did, when it started in March. The Roman calendar originally had ten months, from March to December. This explains why the prefix oct means eight (see Oktogon), for example, and dec means ten. The appro…
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