Editing New Year (section)

===January===
[[File:McCutcheonNY1905.jpg|thumb|[[Baby New Year]] 1905 chases old 1904 into the history books in this cartoon by [[John T. McCutcheon]].]]
*January 1: The first day of the civil year in the [[Gregorian calendar]] used by most [[countries]].
**Contrary to common belief in the west, the civil New Year of January 1 is not an [[Eastern Orthodox Church|Orthodox Christian]] religious holiday. The [[Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar]] makes no provision for the observance of a New Year. January 1 is itself a religious holiday, but that is because it is the feast of the circumcision of Christ (seven days after His birth), and a [[Three Holy Hierarchs|commemoration of saints]]. While the liturgical calendar begins September 1, there is also no particular religious observance attached to the start of the new cycle. Orthodox nations may, however, make civil celebrations for the New Year. Those who adhere to the [[revised Julian calendar]] (which synchronizes dates with the Gregorian calendar), including Bulgaria, Cyprus, Egypt, Greece, Romania, Syria, Turkey and Ukraine, observe both the religious and civil holidays on January 1. In other nations and locations where Orthodox churches still adhere to the [[Julian calendar]], including Georgia, Israel, Russia, the Republic of Macedonia, Serbia, Montenegro and [[Russian-occupied Ukraine]], the civil new year is observed on January 1 of the civil calendar, while those same religious feasts occur on January 14 Gregorian (which is January 1 Julian), in accord with the liturgical calendar.
*The [[Japanese New Year]] (正月, Shōgatsu) is currently celebrated on January 1, with the holiday usually being observed until January 3, while other sources say that Shōgatsu lasts until January 6. In 1873, five years after the Meiji Restoration, Japan adopted the Gregorian calendar. Prior to 1873, Japan used a lunar calendar with twelve months each of 29 or 30 days for a total year of about 354 days.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Ravina|first=Mark|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nqdT8xPiFNYC&pg=PR19|title=Land and Lordship in Early Modern Japan|publisher=Stanford University Press|year=1998|isbn=9780804763868|pages=19|access-date=2023-03-19|archive-date=2023-10-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231018160720/https://books.google.com/books?id=nqdT8xPiFNYC&pg=PR19|url-status=live}}</ref>
*The [[Sámi people|Sámi]] celebrated [[Ođđajagemánnu]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.laits.utexas.edu/sami/dieda/anthro/concept-time.htm|title=The Sami Concept of Time|access-date=2020-01-18|archive-date=2019-07-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190719062439/http://www.laits.utexas.edu/sami/dieda/anthro/concept-time.htm|url-status=live}}</ref>