The ancient Celts first started celebrating Halloween. The Welsh and Briton created legends for Halloween. The Irish also had legends which they brought to America in the 1800's because of the Great Potato Famine.
You celebrate New Year on Jan 1st!
It's a 15-day celebration starting with the first lunar new moon of the year. Ends on the full moon. This year it starts on Feb 14 and ends Feb 28 2010
the first new years eve celebration held in times square
The Times Square celebration started in 1904 to commemorate the opening of the new headquarters of the New York Times.
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New Years was first celebrated in Rome in 153 B.C. It was the beginning of the month that two newly elected roman consuls, highest officials, began their one year tenure.
Surprisingly, the first New Year's festivities ever recorded were celebrated in March in Mesopotamia in 2,000 B.C. The switch to a January 1st celebration occurred in 153 B.C. in Rome.
1873
They bring the cake as celebration, for New Years.