Las Posadas is a nine-day celebration with origins in Spain, now celebrated chiefly in Mexico, Guatemala and parts of the Southwestern United States, beginning December 16 and ending December 24, on evenings ( about 8 or 10 PM ).

In ancient Rome, the Parentalia or dies parentales (" ancestral days ") was a nine-day festival held in honor of family ancestors, beginning February 13.

The celebration of deeds of ancient Danish and Swedish heroes, the poem beginning with a tribute to the royal line of Danish kings, but written in the dominant literary dialect of Anglo-Saxon England, for a number of scholars points to the 11th century reign of Canute, the Danish king whose empire included all of these areas, and whose primary place of residence was in England, as the most likely time of the poem's creation, the poem being written as a celebration of the king's heroic royal ancestors, perhaps intended as a form of artistic flattery by one of his English courtiers.

This is most likely due to the fact that the story takes place during the barley harvest, and that Shavuot is the celebration of the end of the barley harvest and the beginning of the wheat harvest.

The logical outcome of this tendency is the historical novel with Pytheas as the main character and the celebration of Pytheas in poetry beginning as far back as Virgil.

The celebration of New Year itself may have taken place during the ' three nights of Samonios ( Gaulish trinux samo ), the beginning of the lunar cycle which fell nearest to the midpoint between the autumnal equinox and the winter solstice.

Groups such as the Asatru Folk Assembly in the US recognize the celebration as lasting 12 days, beginning on the date of the winter solstice.

At the beginning of the 20th century, dance halls became common, and were rented by those planning a celebration beyond what their homes could hold.

The beginning celebration of the days of the dead.

At the centre of this wine-drinking festival was the celebration of the maturing of the wine stored at the previous vintage, whose pithoi were now ceremoniously opened, and the beginning of spring.

In England it took on some characteristics of Beltane, which originated from the pagan celebration of Summer's Day, the beginning of the Summer half-year, in Europe.

The centennial celebration was the beginning of what is now known as the Ione Homecoming.

Forreston received national news coverage for its " Sauerkraut Day " celebration beginning in 1913 and ending in 1960.

" This liturgical day is followed for all days in the Eastern rite and the custom of beginning Christmas celebration ( as well as Sunday and the other major festivals ) in the preceding evening is preserved in western Churches that have altered the liturgical day to start at midnight, for example the Roman Catholic Church.

In the beginning of every summer all clans gathered together for the common celebration “ Sakhadzibe ”, where mutual Yukagir questions were discussed.

Today, the “ Ducasse ” is a very popular celebration that includes various festivities and lasts several days spanning the end of August and beginning of September.

With the end of the Taishō period, Yoshimoto Kōgyō — which itself was founded at the beginning of the era, in 1912 — introduced a new style of manzai lacking much of the celebration that had accompanied it in the past.

Illumination Night, beginning at dusk on the Saturday evening before Commencement, is a celebration of the campus and a send-off of sorts for graduating seniors.

Simchat Torah or Simḥath Torah ( also Simkhes Toreh, Hebrew: ש ִׂ מ ְ ח ַ ת תור ָ ה, lit., " Rejoicing with / of the Torah ,") is a celebration marking the conclusion of the annual cycle of public Torah readings, and the beginning of a new cycle.

On 15 August 2010, in celebration of the bicentennial of the beginning of the independence of Mexico, his remains were moved to National Palace and remained on display until 20 July 2011, when were returned to the Column of Independence.

Music institutions in Anguilla include the Soroptimist Club and the annual Tranquility Jazz Festival, though the island's most famous music celebration is Carnival, held near the beginning of August ( the first Friday after the first Monday ); it includes calypso competitions, j ' ouvert, street dances, boat races, costumed parades and stilt walking, and beachside barbecues.

The twelve days beginning on 25 December are observed as a fast-free period of celebration.

Each year, Rutland holds a four-day-long Fourth of July celebration, beginning on July 1.

The editor, sports editor, and student business manager are chosen in December, the new staff assuming responsibility for the paper at the beginning of the second semester.

* Fourth quarter: from the beginning of October to the end of December

In the Northern hemisphere, the beginning of the meteorological winter is 1 December.

In the Southern hemisphere, the beginning of the meteorological summer is 1 December.

In December 1944 he recorded Quite Early One Morning produced by Aneirin Talfan Davies again for the Welsh BBC but when Davies offered it for national broadcast it was turned down by BBC London .. On 31 August 1945 Quite Early One Morning was broadcast on the BBC Home Service, and in the three years beginning October 1945, Thomas made over a hundred broadcasts for the corporation.

In each solar year ( 1 January to 31 December inclusive ), the lunar month beginning with an ecclesiastical new moon falling in the 29-day period from 8 March to 5 April inclusive is designated as the paschal lunar month for that year.

At the beginning of July, the governments of both German states decided on the schedule: elections in the GDR would be held on October 14, and a common election for the entire country on 2 December.

Following the tentacle scene in Guyver: Out of Control in December 1986, the Urotsukidoji anime series by Toshio Maeda was released on OVA beginning in 1987 and released in America in 1992 by Anime 18.

The January 2003 CIA paper Iraqi Support for Terrorism states that al-Libi told a foreign intelligence service that " Iraq — acting on the request of al-Qa ' ida militant Abu Abdullah, who was Muhammad Atif's emissary — agreed to provide unspecified chemical or biological weapons training for two al-Qa ' ida associates beginning in December 2000.

The single Dry season experienced in this climate, the tropical savanna climate in central Nigeria beginning from December to march, is hot and dry with the Harmattan wind, a continental tropical ( CT ) airmass laden with dust from the Sahara Desert prevailing throughout this period.

During the Middle Ages several other days were variously taken as the beginning of the calendar year ( 1 March, 25 March, Easter, 1 September, 25 December ).

On December 11, 2006, Commissioner Stern announced that beginning January 1, 2007, the NBA would return to the traditional leather basketball in use prior to the 2006 – 07 season.

In the morning of December 20, 1989, a few hours after the beginning of the invasion, the presumptive winner of the May 1989 election, Guillermo Endara, was sworn in as president of Panama at a U. S. military installation in the Canal Zone.

In December, 2003, Cumberland Games began to support the free game with commercial supplements, beginning with the Risus Companion and the founding of the International Order of Risus.

The date of the beginning of the " Sixth World " is based on the ancient Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, which when Shadowrun was developed was correlated as finishing a 5200 year long cycle on December 24, 2011.

The last two of these Regular sessions were routinely scheduled to recess exactly three months afterwards in early December, but were resumed in January and extended on until just before the beginning of the following sessions.

Many of the act's provisions were to sunset beginning December 31, 2005, approximately 4 years after its passage.

In the USA ( and sometimes in Britain ) the season is regarded as beginning at the solstice and ending on the following equinox – in the Northern Hemisphere, depending on the year, this corresponds to the period between 21 or 22 December and 20 or 21 March.

Cultural influences such as Christmas creep may have led to the winter season being perceived as beginning earlier in recent years, although high latitude countries like Canada are usually well into their real winters before the December solstice.

Grace endured a number of tragedies in his life beginning with the death of his father in December 1871.

* 1121: On December 25, St. Norbert and 29 companions made their solemn vows, the beginning of the Premonstratensian Order.