All of us know that we celebrate newyear every year by the end of a year and by the beginning of the first day of January. But how many of us ever thought of the reason why this is so.Here we go let's have a peak into the newyear history. 

According to legend, the idea of a "new year" first appeared in ancient Babylon around 2,000 BC, approximately 4,000 years ago. On the first new moon following the spring equinox, Babylonians celebrated the new year with an 11-day festival called "Akitu" that featured a different ceremony on each day (typically around late March). The celebration celebrated both the act of crowning a new king or allowing the existing king to rule, as well as the supposed victory of the sky deity Marduk over the sea goddess Tiamat.
Most nations now start their New Year's Day celebrations on December 31, which is New Year's Eve, and go until the early hours of January 1. Partygoers gather during this time to offer food, goodwill, and prayers for prosperity in the upcoming year. People congregate in different locations to view the traditional fireworks. People start over and make resolutions for their lives because they feel that a new year is a fresh start and a blank slate. A person might make a commitment to change a bad habit or behaviour and set personal objectives (s).
Over time, the early Roman calendar drifted away from the sun, and in 46 BC, emperor Julius Caesar decided to correct the situation by consulting the foremost astronomers and mathematicians of the day. As a result, the Julian calendar, which is comparable to the present Gregorian calendar, was created.

It's interesting to note that Caesar chose January 1 as the first day of the year in part to honour Janus, the Roman god of new beginnings. Romans had raucous parties, offered sacrifices to Janus, exchanged gifts, and decorated their dwellings with laurel branches to mark the occasion.

            After it was chosen as the day to inaugurate new consuls in 153 BC, the January kalend (Latin: Kalendae Ianuariae), which marks the beginning of the month of January, eventually came to be observed as the start of the new year. Making the kalends of January the first day of the new year harmonised the Romans' long-standing practise of marking their years by these consulships rather than chronologically. Even Nevertheless, private and religious celebrations of the March new year persisted for a while, and there is no agreement on the precise moment when 1 January acquired its new status. However, once it was the new year, it was a time for celebrations and family get-togethers. A string of catastrophes, most notably M.