The weekly Around Our Region calendar of events is published Wednesdays ... The library will be closed Dec. 25 and Jan. 1. It will close at 5 p.m. Dec. 31. Advance registration is required ...

Country-wise details here In 46 BCE, Julius Caesar, Rome's then king, made further changes to the calendar, but retained January 1 as the first day of the year. As the Roman empire expanded ...