- New Year's celebrations are among the oldest parties in Sweden
- Gun salutes were the predecessors of traditional New Year’s fireworks.
- New Year’s resolutions came to Sweden during the mid-1940s from the USA. Among the most common resolutions are those aimed at living a more healthy life: to eat better, exercise more or lose weight.
- New Year's Eve has been seen as one of the best times for divination, i.e. predictions for the forthcoming year, in the sense that what you do and what happens on the night is believed to indicate the trend for the year ahead.
- New Year’s Day is one of the peak dates for sales of take-away pizza in Sweden.
- The Roman new year was originally celebrated on 1 March with a big feast. Sweden began to celebrate the new year on 31 December when the country converted to the Gregorian calendar during the 1700s. Thus our calendar is named after a pope: Gregorius XIII.
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