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In 45 B.C., New Year’s Day is celebrated on January 1 for the first time in history as the Julian calendar takes effect.

Soon after becoming Roman dictator, Julius Caesar decided that the traditional Roman calendar was in dire need of reform. Introduced around the seventh century B.C., the Roman calendar attempted to follow the lunar cycle but frequently fell out of phase with the seasons and had to be corrected. In addition, the pontifices, the Roman body charged with overseeing the calendar, often abused its authority by adding days to extend political terms or interfere with elections.

In designing his new calendar, Caesar enlisted the aid of Sosigenes, an Alexandrian astronomer, who advised him to do away with the lunar cycle entirely and follow the solar year, as did the Egyptians. The year was calculated to be 365 and 1/4 days, and Caesar added 67 days to 45 B.C., making 46 B.C. begin on January 1, rather than in March. He also decreed that every four years a day be added to February, thus theoretically keeping his calendar from falling out of step. Shortly before his assassination in 44 B.C., he changed the name of the month Quintilis to Julius (July) after himself. Later, the month of Sextilis was renamed Augustus (August) after his successor.

Celebration of New Year’s Day in January fell out of practice during the
Middle Ages, and even those who strictly adhered to the Julian calendar did not observe the New Year exactly on January 1. The reason for the latter was that Caesar and Sosigenes failed to calculate the correct value for the solar year as 365.242199 days, not 365.25 days. Thus, an 11-minute-a-year error added seven days by the year 1000, and 10 days by the mid-15th century.

The Roman church became aware of this problem, and in the 1570s Pope Gregory XIII commissioned Jesuit astronomer Christopher Clavius to come up with a new calendar. In 1582, the Gregorian calendar was implemented, omitting 10 days for that year and establishing the new rule that only one of every four centennial years should be a leap year.

Since then, people around the world have gathered en masse on January 1 to celebrate the precise arrival of the New Year.

dominique:
No time for long story oga. Did you or did you not sleep with her, collect her money, eat her mum's chickens and dumped her afterwards?

crestedaguiyi:
[s]Shame no catch u.

The sight of a mere kettle will make u trample on crawling babies and even push pregnant women,young man you are a beast without shame and honour

Am a Biafran, we are not idiots or beast
We don't trample on babies or push women whether pregnant or not[/s]

usermane:
Mary.

Hmm...? Are you really a Christian?

usermane:
Thank you.
Is there any record of her having a sibling? Any brother or sister?

usermane:
Thank you. Please, is there anywhere this is mentioned in either of the Testaments?

usermane:
Peace Christians.

I'd be glad if you could respond to this. According to Christian sources, both canon and apocrypha, who were Mary's family? Particularly her father and siblings. Thank you.

References will be appreciated. Thanks.

alBHAGDADI:
Stop reading lies. How can a grown man like you believe what you wrote up there?

AllenSpencer:
Research!

Their are several more gods born on that date and records are there. I didnt make it up

All this gods showed same signs at birth just like Christ

alBHAGDADI:
Please don't mind those satanists. They keep talking without Bible verses to back their claim up. Thanks for Colossians 2:16. The jars want to judge us when the apostles didnt judge us.

AkpaMgbor:
Lol at hitting the nail on the head..The Bible already said it "professing themselves to be wise the became foolish" Romans 1:22...I've been here for a very long time..trust me I've seen much more logical and compelling argument on this forum than yours..and even then, they were still riddled with loopholes and ad hominem.

alBHAGDADI:
I'll henceforth ignore him.

alBHAGDADI:
I never said Jesus instructed us to celebrate his birthday. I only said he never gave any hint against celebrating his Birthday. Now, for you to come up and start telling us not to celebrate the birth of our saviour when he never spoke against, it means you are trying to speak for Jesus.

AkpaMgbor:
You know the moniker you're replying..you should know that the person behind such moniker is NOT here to agree or learn..but to derail and confuse..why give him such audience??

alBHAGDADI:
Show me where Jesus instructed us NOT to celebrate Christmas.

Since we both cant find anywhere such is written in the Bible, then it means it is not a sin celebrating it. Same thing applies with naming ceremonies. Nowhere are we told by the Bible to celebrate naming ceremonies, yet we do. The reason we do is because the Bible doesn't kick against it.

You speaking against such celebrations when the Bible hasn't spoken is the same as speaking when God hasn't spoken.