Today is the Julian New Year, sometimes called the Old New Year or the Orthodox New Year. Tomorrow - January 14, 2021 - will be January 1 in the Julian calendar. Best New 5 February: Chinese New Year. This year marks the Year of the Pig. 21 March: Norwruz - also known as Iranian New Year. Celebrated for more than 3,000 years and considered a holy day by those who The new calendar was based on the same principles as the Julian calendar, but with a few key changes. The most significant change was the introduction of a new rule for leap years. In the Gregorian calendar, a leap year is still added every four years, but years that are divisible by 100 are not leap years unless they are also divisible by 400. Most New Year's festivities begin on December 31 (New Year's Eve), the last day of the Gregorian calendar, and continue into the early hours of January 1 (New Year's Day). The Julian calendar has two types of year: "normal" years of 365 days and "leap" years of 366 days. There is a simple cycle of three "normal" years followed by a leap year and this pattern repeats forever without exception. The Julian year is, therefore, on average 365.25 days long. The Old New Year, or the Orthodox New Year, is an informal traditional holiday, celebrated as the start of the New Year by the Julian calendar. In the 20th and 21st centuries, the Old New Year falls on January 14 in the Gregorian calendar. z3Bp1I.

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