Sinhala & Tamil New Year Celebration in Sydney-Dr Harold Gunatillake Website: www.Doctorharold.com Transcript: Many countries in the world including Sri Lanka celebrate the first of January as a day of celebration. In 45BC, New Year’s Day was celebrated on January 1st for the first time in history as the Julian calendar took effect. According to tradition, during his reign 715-673 BCE Numa revised the Roman republican calendar so that January replaced March as the first month. ...