Editing New Year (section)

==Adoptions of January 1==
{{see also|Adoption of the Gregorian calendar|Old Style and New Style dates}}
It took quite a long time before January 1 again became the universal or standard start of the civil year. The years of adoption of January 1 as the new year are as follows:

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! Country || Start year
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| [[Holy Roman Empire]] (~Germany)<ref name=MS>Mike Spathaky ''[http://www.cree.name/genuki/dates.htm Old Style and New Style Dates and the change to the Gregorian Calendar: A summary for genealogists] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141011060050/http://www.cree.name/genuki/dates.htm |date=2014-10-11 }}''</ref> || 1544
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| Spain, Portugal, [[Poland]]<ref name=MS /> || 1556
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| [[Prussia]],<ref name=MS />  [[Denmark]],<ref>Denmark named 1 January as the New Year in the early 14th century according to R.W. Bauer (''Calender for Aarene fra 601 til 2200'', 1868/1993 {{ISBN|87-7423-083-2}}) although the number of the year did not begin on 1 January until 1559.</ref> and [[Sweden]].<ref name=MS /> || 1559
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| France ([[Edict of Roussillon]]) || 1564
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| [[Southern Netherlands]]<ref>Per decree of 16 June 1575. Hermann Grotefend, "[http://www.manuscripta-mediaevalia.de/gaeste/grotefend/g_o.htm#Osteranfang Osteranfang] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160713092953/http://www.manuscripta-mediaevalia.de/gaeste/Grotefend/g_o.htm#Osteranfang |date=2016-07-13 }}" (Easter beginning), ''[http://www.manuscripta-mediaevalia.de/gaeste/grotefend/grotefend.htm Zeitrechnung de Deutschen Mittelalters und der Neuzeit] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160628120344/http://www.manuscripta-mediaevalia.de/gaeste/grotefend/grotefend.htm |date=2016-06-28 }}'' (Chronology of the German Middle Ages and modern times) (1891–1898)</ref> || 1576
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| [[Lorraine (province)|Lorraine]]{{citation needed|date=December 2018}} || 1579
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| [[Dutch Republic]]<ref name=MS />  || 1583
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| [[Scotland]]{{sfnp|Bond|1875|loc=See footnote on pages xvii–xviii: original text of the Scottish decree}}<ref name=MS />  || 1600
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| [[Russia]]<ref>{{cite book |last=Oudard|first=Georges |translator=Atkinson, Frederick |title=Peter the Great |publisher=Payson and Clarke |location=New York |date=1929 |orig-date=1929 |lccn=29-027809 |ol=OL7431283W |page=197 |url=https://archive.org/details/petergreat00ouda/page/197}}</ref> || 1700{{efn|A 1725 date given in some sources probably originates from Bond (1875) (p. 101) but is not correct, as the 1699 ''[[Ukase]]'' № 1736 (20 December 1699 [[Old Style and New Style dates|{{resize|[O.S.]}}]] (30 December {{resize|[N.S.]}}) promulgating it attests.<ref name="Ukase 1736">{{cite book |title=Полное собрание законов Российской империи. Том III |trans-title=Complete Collection of Laws of the Russian Empire. Volume III. |page=683 |entry=Ukase No. 1736 |entry-url=https://viewer.rsl.ru/ru/rsl01003821638?page=683&rotate=0&theme=white |date=20 December 1699 |access-date=26 June 2023 |archive-date=26 June 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230626203043/https://viewer.rsl.ru/ru/rsl01003821638?page=683&rotate=0&theme=white |url-status=live }}</ref>}}
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| [[Tuscany]]<ref name=MS />  || 1721
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| [[England and Wales]], [[Kingdom of Ireland|Ireland]] and <br> [[British Empire]]<ref name=MS />{{efn|[[Calendar (New Style) Act 1750]]}}  || 1752
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| [[Japan]]<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gAtWc9wCHhMC&pg=PR13|title=The Book in Japan: A Cultural History from the Beginnings to the Nineteenth Century|publisher=University of Hawaii Press|year=2000|isbn=9780824823375|quote=Late in 1872 Japan adopted the Gregorian calendar and 1872.12.3 became 1 January 1873|access-date=19 March 2023|archive-date=18 October 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231018160719/https://books.google.com/books?id=gAtWc9wCHhMC&pg=PR13|url-status=live}}</ref>|| 1873
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| [[Republic of China (1912–1949)|China]]<ref>{{Cite book|last=Xu|first=Guoqi|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=erOGMb8c4XEC&pg=PA34|title=China and the Great War: China's Pursuit of a New National Identity and Internationalization|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=2005|isbn=9780521842129|pages=34|quote=Indeed the adoption of the Gregorian calendar was the very first law passed by the new Republic of China. On December 31, 1911, the national senate passed a resolution to adopt the solar calendar immediately, regarding the next day as the first day of the first month of the first year of the Republic of China.|access-date=March 19, 2023|archive-date=October 18, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231018160720/https://books.google.com/books?id=erOGMb8c4XEC&pg=PA34|url-status=live}}</ref>|| 1912
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| [[Greece]]<ref>{{Cite book|last=Cassimatis|first=Louis P.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SjXLZWQWqkkC|title=American Influence in Greece, 1917-1929|publisher=Kent State University Press|year=1988|isbn=9780873383578|access-date=2023-03-19|archive-date=2023-10-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231018160722/https://books.google.com/books?id=SjXLZWQWqkkC|url-status=live}}</ref>|| 1923
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| [[Turkey]]<ref>{{Cite book|last=Davison|first=Andrew|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=liZvZtMoFZIC&pg=PA150|title=Secularism and Revivalism in Turkey: A Hermeneutic Reconsideration|publisher=Yale University Press|year=1998|isbn=9780300069365|pages=150|access-date=2023-03-19|archive-date=2023-10-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231018160720/https://books.google.com/books?id=liZvZtMoFZIC&pg=PA150|url-status=live}}</ref>|| 1926
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| [[Thai solar calendar|Thailand]]{{citation needed|date=December 2018}} || 1941
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March 1 was the first day of the numbered year in the [[Republic of Venice]] until its destruction in 1797,<ref name="Beginning - New Year">{{Cite web|title=Beginning - New Year|url=https://fcp.vse.cz/4IZ268/2018-2019-ZS/www/litv00/semprace1/beginning.html|website=fcp.vse.cz|access-date=2020-05-24|archive-date=2020-08-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200804115649/https://fcp.vse.cz/4IZ268/2018-2019-ZS/www/litv00/semprace1/beginning.html|url-status=live}}</ref> and in [[Russia]] from 988 until 1492 ([[Anno Mundi]] 7000 in the [[Byzantine calendar]]).<ref name="Beginning - New Year"/> September 1 was used in Russia from 1492 (A.M. 7000) until the adoption of both the [[Anno Domini]] notation and 1 January as New Year's Day, with effect from 1700, via December 1699 decrees (1735, 1736) of Tsar [[Peter I of Russia|Peter I]].<ref>{{cite book |title=Полное собрание законов Российской империи. Том III |trans-title=Complete Collection of Laws of the Russian Empire. Volume III. |page=682 |entry=Ukase No. 1735 |entry-url=https://viewer.rsl.ru/ru/rsl01003821638?page=682&rotate=0&theme=white |date=10 December 1699 |access-date=27 June 2023 |archive-date=27 June 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230627095345/https://viewer.rsl.ru/ru/rsl01003821638?page=682&rotate=0&theme=white |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Ukase 1736" />