The new year in different countries - New Year 2015, 2558 or Heisel 27

After wishing you Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2015 in this thread I thought that is not to all, because not every country have the same calendar number, so I have made also this other thread for the others that do not live in a Gregorian Calendar place.

Today we can welcome the brand new year 2015 and is the first day[/B]

I know that Skybase is fr om Japan and Ramlyn is from Thailand

Although this is only in the countries wh ere they use the Gregorian calendar that show the 2015 number, as there are some other countries that have different years number and they celebrate the new year in a different date

If you live in a country that has a different year number please put it here

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Japan The year 2015 corresponds to Heisei 27 It is the year of the Sheep Japan Guide source with year calculator With the year 1873, the Gregorian calendar was introduced to Japan. While the Christian way of numbering years is commonly used in Japan today, a parallel numbering system for years based on the reigns of emperors is also frequently applied (see year converter above). The year 2000, for example, which happened to be the 12th year of the reign of the current emperor, whose posthumous name will be Heisei, is called "Heisei 12". Before 1873, lunar calendars, which were originally imported from China, were used in Japan for many centuries. The lunar calendars were based on the cycle of the moon, resulting in years of twelve months of 29 or 30 days (the moon takes about 29 1/2 days to circle the earth), and an occasional 13th month to even out the discrepancy to the solar cycle of 365 1/4 days, i.e. the discrepancy to the seasons. Various features of the lunar calendar remain intact in today's Japan. For example, years are still commonly associated with the twelve animals: mouse, cow, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, sheep, monkey, rooster, dog and pig.

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Thailand Since a few decades, the western New Year's Day is also a public holiday in Thailand. But for Thai people, the traditional and most popular New Year's Day happens in April. It is called "SONGKRAN". There is a 544 years difference between the Buddhist calendar and the Gregorian calendar. Year 2015 in Europe is year 2558 in Thailand.

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China The new year for China is next month Chinese Calendar Conversion • Convert Chinese - English Date Given below is the result of the Chinese - English calendar conversion. The table below shows the English date, Chinese date, Chinese animal zodiac of the selected year

OTHER DIFFERENT CALENDAR YEARS

I have found also this website that shows other different calendar years for other countries if you may be interested to know about them of if you live in one of these other countries

World Calendar year converter for some different cultures that do not have the Gregorian Calender