Januar
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Januar is the first month o the year in the Gregorian calendar, an ane o sieven Gregorian months wi 31 days.
Januar is named efter Janus, Roman god o doors an yetts.
Januar begins (astrologicallie) wi the sun in the sign o Capricorn an ends in the sign o Aquarius. Frae a astrologie pynt o view, the sun begins in the stairhoard o Sagittarius an ends in the stairhoard o Capricornus.
The oreiginal Roman calendar wis makkit o 10 months (304 days). The Romans first hid thocht aboot winter as bein a monthless period. Bit aboot 700 BC Romulus' efterganger, King Numa Pompilius, added the months o Januar an Februar allooin the calendar tae be equal wi a standard moon towmond (354 days). A Roman folkbelief agin e'en nummers resultit in the addin o ane day thus makin the year 355 days lang. Though March wis oreiginally the first month, Januar usurped that poseition acause at wis whan consuls wis uisuallie chosen.
The first day o the month is kent as "Ne'er's Day".
Names for Januar o auld lang syne include its oreiginal Roman designation, Ianuarius, the Saxon term Wulf-monath (meanin wolf month) an Charlemagne's ain name fer it: Wintarmanoth (winter / cold month). In the auld Japanese calendar, the month is caa'd Mutsuki (睦月). The seicont day o the month is kent as Hatsuyume (初夢) an the 7t day as Nanakusa (七草). In Finnish, the month is caa'd tammikuu, meanin "month o the aik".
The first Monanday in Januar is kent as Handsel Monanday in Scotland an northren Ingland. In Ingland, the fieldwark year began wi "Plough Sunday" on the Sunday comin efter Epiphany.
The Comin o age day in Japan is the seicont Monanday of Januar, for those becomin 20 years auld in the new calendar towmond. It is a landweid holiday. The day his been aboot sin 1948, bit fell on Januar 15th til 1999, whan it wis muivit by the Japanese government in an attempt to lift the economie by makin mair holidays come ane efter the ither.
In the heathen wheel o the year, Januar ends at or near tae Imbolc in the northren hemisphere an Lughnasadh in the southren hemisphere.
| Days in Januar |
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 |
| Months o the year |
| Januar | Februar | Mairch | Aprile | Mey | Juin | Julie | August | September | October | November | December |
