The Two nights ago, as the stroke of midnight rolled across the world's time zones, people gathered in private and took to the streets to celebrate the arrival of the New Year, 2015. Fireworks erupted from Auckland to Rome, and revelers gathered in Chongqing, Cape Town, Rio de Janeiro, New York, and thousands of other places, raising a glass, keeping warm, making resolutions, and wishing each other a "Happy New Year!" [28 photos]
_ In Auckland, New Zealand, fireworks erupt from the top of the Sky Tower to welcome the New Year on January 1, 2015. (Dave Rowland/Getty Images)
A woman wears 2015 glasses while covering up from the cold weather during New Year's Eve celebrations in Times Square, New York, on December 31, 2014. (Reuters/Stephanie Keith) #
Fireworks explode over the Opera House and the Harbour Bridge during New Years Eve celebrations in Sydney, Australia, on December 31, 2014. (AP Photo/Rob Griffith) #
Novice Buddhist monks smile as they pose with Happy New Year placards during 'kagyu monalm' prayers at Bodhgaya on January 1, 2015. (AFP/Getty Images) #
A tourist wearing a New Year's headpiece walks on Sydney's Bondi beach before the first sunrise of the new year, January 1, 2015. (Reuters/Jason Reed) #
Men ride on a "mikoshi" or portable shrine as local people carry it into the sea during a festival to wish for calm waters in the ocean and good fortune in the new year in Oiso, west of Tokyo, on January 1, 2015. (Reuters/Yuya Shino) #
People release balloons to celebrate the New Year during an annual countdown ceremony in Tokyo on January 1, 2015. Some 2,000 guests of the Prince Park Tower Tokyo released the balloons in the air, carrying with their new year wishes. (Toshifumi Kitamura/AFP/Getty Images) #
Fireworks light the sky above the medieval Mariendom (Cathedral of Mary), left, and the St. Severi's Church, right, shortly after midnight during New Year's Eve celebrations in Erfurt, Germany, on January 1, 2015. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer) #
Iraqi break dancers dressed in Santa Claus costumes celebrate the New Year at Firdous Square in Baghdad, Iraq, on December 31, 2014. In Iraq's war-scarred capital, Baghdad authorities ordered a one-off lifting of the overnight curfew in force for more than a decade to allow the city's revelers to stay out late on the streets. Traffic was unusually heavy starting shortly after sunset and authorities closed commercial streets to vehicles in the city's center as a precaution against possible suicide bombings by militants of the Islamic State terror group.(AP Photo/Hadi Mizban) #
Fireworks explode around the Houses of Parliament and the London Eye during the New Year celebrations in central London just after midnight on January 1, 2015. (Ben Stansall/AFP/Getty Images) #
Chinese artist Kong Ning poses in a costume symbolizing a butterfly, which is decorated with 365 masks on its wings to represent the number of days in a year, during her performance art at the Badaling section of the Great Wall on the outskirts of Beijing on January 1, 2015. Kong, whose works include themes related to China's air pollution problem, named her new performance art "Hua Die" (transforming into a butterfly) and performed it on the first day of the new year as she hopes that China has clean air for this year. (Reuters/Kim Kyung-Hoon) #
Fireworks explode behind the Quadriga statue on top of the Brandenburg Gate shortly after midnight on January 1, 2015 in Berlin, Germany. (Adam Berry/Getty Images) #
A young Egyptian Christian girl sings during New Year's Eve mass at the Cave Cathedral or St. Sama'ans Church in the Moqattam district of Cairo, late Wednesday, December 31, 2014. (AP Photo/Mohammed Abu Zaid) #
Fireworks illuminate the night sky over the Ebrie Lagoon in Abidjan during New Year celebrations January 1, 2015 in Ivory Coast. (Issouf Sanogo/AFP/Getty Images) #
A visitor ties on her written oracle after praying for good luck during "hatsumode" or the first visit of the year at Kawasaki Daishi Temple in Kawasaki near Tokyo, on January 1, 2015. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko) #
A couple embrace each other as they celebrate the New Year in a main party zone in the city of Cape Town, South Africa, on January 1, 2015. (AP Photo/Schalk van Zuydam) #
Revellers photograph fireworks over the Arc de Triomphe as they celebrate the New Year on the Champs Elysees avenue in Paris, France, on January 1, 2015. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena) #
Up Helly Aa vikings from the Shetland Islands hold lit torches during the annual torchlight procession to mark the start of Hogmanay (New Year) celebrations in Edinburgh, Scotland, on December 30, 2014. (Reuters/Russell Cheyne) #
In Chongqing, China, people prepare to release balloons during the New Year's Eve countdown event at Jiefangbei Pedestrian Street on December 31, 2014. (ChinaFotoPress via Getty Images) #
People prepare to release balloons during the New Year's Eve countdown event at Jiefangbei Pedestrian Street on December 31, 2014 in Chongqing, China. (ChinaFotoPress via Getty Images) #
Swimmers in fancy dress splash as they participate in the New Year's Day Loony Dook swim at South Queensferry, Scotland, on January 1, 2015. (Reuters/Russell Cheyne) #
A man stands on a paddle board as fireworks explode above him during New Year's festivities on Copacabana Beach on January 1, 2015 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Up to 2 million revelers gathered on Copacabana Beach to watch the annual New Year's fireworks display which this year coincided with the start of the city's 450th anniversary celebrations. (Mario Tama/Getty Images) #
_ In Auckland, New Zealand, fireworks erupt from the top of the Sky Tower to welcome the New Year on January 1, 2015. 
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