Презентация "Старый Новый Год"

The Old New Year

9 th form

School 667

Saint-Petersburg

Teacher: Trubitsina T.M.

• How do you celebrate new year holidays?

• Do you know when the Old New Year is celebrated?

There are 365 days in a calendar year.

A solar year is actually 365, 2421999 days.

Because of this difference, every fourth year is a leap year with an extra day at the end of February.

How are these people related to the Old New Year?

Julius Caesar

The Roman Emperor

Pope Gregory XIII

• The Roman emperor Julius Caesar introduced the Julian calendar in 45BC.
• According to the calendar it has 365days with a leap year of 366 days.
• The Julian calendar is not perfect because it falls behind the solar year by about one day per century.

Months (Roman)

Lengths before 45 BC

Ianuarius [4]

Lengths as of 45 BC

29

Months (English)

31

28 (leap years: 23 or 24)

28 (leap years: 29)

0 (leap years: 27)

(abolished)

31

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31

29

31

30

Quintilis [5] (Iulius)

31

29

30

31

Sextilis (Augustus)

31

29

31

29

30

31

31

29

30

29

31

• In 1582, Pope Gregory XIII introduced the Gregorian calendar which corrects the Julian calendar by making most years (1700, 1800, 1900) normal years of 365 days.

• The Gregorian calendar omits century years which are not divisible by 400.

Happy Old New Year!

• Russia began to use the Gregorian calendar on 26 th January, 1918.
• By this time, the Julian calendar was 13 days behind the solar year.

• To correct this, the date jumped from 31 st January 1918 to 14 th February.

Wish you lots of love, joy and happiness!

• The Russian Orthodox Church still uses the Julian calendar.

May your world be filled with warmth and good cheer throughout the year!

• The New Year by the Julian calendar is still informally observed, and the tradition of celebrating the coming of the New Year twice is widely enjoyed: January 1 (New New Year) and January 14 (Old New Year).

• Usually not as festive as the New New Year, for many this is a nostalgic family holiday ending the New Year holiday cycle (which includes Eastern Orthodox Christmas on January 7) with traditional large meals and singing.