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The very first New Year’s celebration was over 4,000 years ago in Babylon. It was celebrated when the first new moon after the vernal equinox – a day with equal amount of sunlight and darkness in March. But after many years the sun fell out of sync with the calendar. After Julius Caesar assumed control of Rome, he created the Julian calendar. He consulted with the best astronomers and mathematicians of the time to re-synchronize the sun and calendar. This led to redefining the New Year to start...