Naw-Rúz /New Years Day (Baháí, Zoroastrian)
March
21
Naw-Rúz (literally new day) is the Baháí new year festival and falls at the spring equinox, although it has been fixed at 21st March for countries outside the Middle East. Naw-Rúz symbolises the new life of spring.
Naw-Rúz is an old Iranian celebration and also marks the start of the Zoroastrian new year.