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Other global New Years' Day traditions include making New Year's resolutions and calling one's friends and family.

In Christendom, under which the Gregorian Calendar developed, New Year's Day traditionally marks the Feast of the Circumcision of Christ, which is still observed as such by the Anglican Church and the Lutheran Church.

Mesopotamia (Iraq) instituted the concept of celebrating the new year in 2000 BC.

The Romans dedicated New Year's Day to Janus, the Roman god of gates, doors, and beginnings, for whom the first month of the year, January, is also named.