Not every calendar sets January 1 as the start of the New Year. Different cultures often celebrate different dates as the ...

TASS has prepared this factbox with background information on the history of Russia’s traditional New Year’s celebration ...

The ancient Maya and Aztecs had detailed calendars that celebrated New Year's Eve at different times, with traditions to mark ...

Visitors enjoyed a fireworks finale to conclude the annual Menorah Lighting at the Commons at Calabasas on Monday, Dec. 30.

Ethiopia, Nepal, Iran, and Afghanistan are four countries that won’t be celebrating New Year’s Day 2025.

The Islamic New Year, or Hijri New Year, on June 25, 2025, marks the start of the Islamic lunar calendar. It commemorates ...

Learn the importance of Hindu New Year 2025, which begins on March 30, 2025. This auspicious day marks the start of Chaitra ...

The tradition of putting up an evergreen tree, or "yolka," to celebrate New Year's dates to the beginning of the former Soviet Union.

Some countries use calendars that begin the year on dates in entirely different seasons, and some countries celebrate both ...

In 2024, according to a government decree, December 29-31 (Sunday through Tuesday) will be days off, while December 28 (Saturday) will be a working day ...

Over thousands of years, various cultures have developed calendars based on astronomical observations, leading to diverse ...

That doesn’t sound like much, but those minutes add up to days over time. Pope Gregory XIII solved this problem in 1582 when he came up with the Gregorian calendar we use today, the most widely used ...