On this day: 1 January
Events, births and deaths on 1 January. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
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Events · 60
- 1785The Times — British daily national newspaper based in London
- 1801United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland — historical sovereign state (1801–1922)
- 1804Haiti — country in the Caribbean Sea
- 1804Haitian Revolution — 1791 slave revolt in the French colony of Saint-Domingue
- 1873Gregorian calendar — internationally accepted civil calendar, first used in 1582
- 1900Southern Nigeria Protectorate — 1900–1914 UK possession in Western Africa
- 1901Australia — country in Oceania
- 1901Western Australia — state of Australia
- 1912Taiwan — country in East Asia
- 1912Republic of China — 1912–1949 country in Asia
- 1923London and North Eastern Railway — British “Big 4” railway company, active 1923–1947
- 1942Declaration by United Nations — treaty
- 1945Operation Bodenplatte — 1945 Nazi air force offensive
- 1945Chenogne massacre — WWII war crime
- 1947Bizone — joint zone of British and US occupied West Germany
- 19481948 — year
- 1948British Rail — British state-owned rail transport operator (1948–1997)
- 1956Sudan — country in Northeast Africa
- 1958European Economic Community — 1958–2009 organisation for economic integration, under the EU from 1993
- 1959Cuban Revolution — revolution in Cuba starting in 1953 culminating in 1959
- 1960Cameroon — sovereign state in West-Central Africa
- 19651965 — year
- 1965People’s Democratic Party of Afghanistan — ruling political party in Afghanistan from 1978 to 1992
- 1976Middle East Airlines Flight 438 — 1976 airliner bombing
- 1978Air India Flight 855 — 1978 plane crash of an Air India Boeing 747 near Bombay, India
- 1984Brunei — sovereign country and sultanate on the island of Borneo in south-east Asia, member of the Commonwealth of Nations
- 1985Eastern Air Lines Flight 980 — 1985 aviation accident
- 1988Evangelical Lutheran Church in America — Lutheran Mainline Protestant denomination in the United States
- 19921992 — year
- 1993Czech Republic — country in Central Europe
- 1994North American Free Trade Agreement — trade bloc
- 1994European Economic Area — area of the European Union's internal market and some of EFTA states established in 1994
- 1995World Trade Organization — intergovernmental organization that intends to supervise and liberalize international trade
- 1995CCTV-5 Sports — television station
- 1995Draupner wave — rogue wave occurring at the Draupner platform in the North Sea on 1 January 1995
- 2000Year 2000 problem — class of computer bugs related to dates beginning in the year 2000
- 2002
- 2005New Turkish lira — Turkish currency, 2005-date (changed in 2009 to just "lira")
- 20062006 — year
- 20072007 — calendar year
- 2007Adam Air Flight 574 — 2007 aviation accident in Indonesia
- 20072007 enlargement of the European Union — event on 1 July 2007 where Bulgaria and Romania joined the European Communities
- 20092009 — year
- 2009Santika Club fire — 2009 fire in Thailand
- 20102010 — calendar year
- 20112011 Alexandria bombing — attack on Coptic Christians in Alexandria, Egypt
- 20132013 — year
- 20142014 — year
- 2015
- 2015Eurasian Economic Union — economic organization of northern and central Asian and eastern European countries
- 20172017 — year
- 20172017 Istanbul nightclub attack — terrorist mass shooting that occurred at a nightclub in the Beşiktaş district of Istanbul, Turkey, on 1 January 2017
- 20192019 — year
- 20222022 — year
- 20232023 — calendar year
- 20242024 — calendar year
- 20242024 Noto earthquake — earthquake occurred on January 1, 2024
- 20252025 New Orleans truck attack — vehicle ramming attack in New Orleans, Louisiana, US
- 20262026 — current calendar year
- 20262026 Crans-Montana bar fire — deadly fire in Crans-Montana on 1 January 2026
Births · 60
- 1431(Julian date)Alexander VI — pope of the Catholic Church 1492–1503 from the Borgia family (1430/32-1503)
- 1449(Julian date)Lorenzo de' Medici — Italian politician, literary man and humanist
- 1467(Julian date)Sigismund I the Old — King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania
- 1484(Julian date)Huldrych Zwingli — Protestant Reformation leader in Switzerland, Swiss Reformed Church founder (1484-1531)
- 1618Bartolomé Esteban Murillo — Spanish Baroque painter (1617–1682)
- 1655Christian Thomasius — German philosopher (1655-1728)
- 1735Paul Revere — American silversmith and Patriot in the American Revolution (1735–1818)
- 1768Maria Edgeworth — Irish writer (1768-1849)
- 1814Hong Xiuquan — Chinese revolutionary and leader of Taiping Rebellion (1814–1864)
- 1823Sándor Petőfi — Hungarian poet and liberal revolutionary (1823–1849)
- 1854James George Frazer — Scottish social anthropologist (1854–1941)
- 1863Pierre de Coubertin — founder of modern Olympic Games, pedagogue and historian (1863-1937)
- 1864George Washington Carver — African American botanist and inventor (1864-1943)
- 1864Alfred Stieglitz — American photographer (1864–1946)
- 1879E. M. Forster — English novelist (1879-1970)
- 1881Vajiravudh — King of Siam from 1910 to 1925
- 1887Wilhelm Canaris — German admiral, head of military intelligence service (1887–1945)
- 1892Manuel Roxas — President of the Philippines from 1946 to 1948
- 1894Satyendra Nath Bose — Indian Bengali physicist and polymath (1894–1974)
- 1895J. Edgar Hoover — American law enforcement administrator (1895–1972)
- 1909Stepan Bandera — Ukrainian nationalist leader (1909–1959)
- 1909Dana Andrews — American actor (1909–1992)
- 1912Kim Philby — KGB mole for the Soviet Union (1912–1988)
- 1914Noor Inayat Khan — WW2 SOE British agent (1914–1944)
- 1919J. D. Salinger — American author (1919–2010)
Deaths · 60
- 138(Julian date)Lucius Aelius Caesar — heir of the Roman Empire as the adopted son of Emperor Hadrian, and father of emperor Lucius Verus
- 1204(Julian date)Haakon III of Norway — King of Norway
- 1387Charles II of Navarre — King of Navarre 1349–1387 and Count of Évreux 1343–1387
- 1496(Julian date)Charles, Count of Angoulême — Count of Angoulême from 1467 to 1496 (1459-1496)
- 1515(Julian date)Louis XII of France — King of France from 1498 to 1515
- 1559(Julian date)Christian III of Denmark — king of Denmark and Norway
- 1560(Julian date)Joachim du Bellay — French writer, poet, literary critic, and member of the Pléiade (1522–1560)
- 1617Hendrik Goltzius — German-born Dutch printmaker, draftsman and painter (1558-1617)
- 1697Filippo Baldinucci — Italian art historian (1625-1697)
- 1748Johann Bernoulli — Swiss mathematician (1667-1748)
- 1766James Francis Edward Stuart, Prince of Wales — pretender to the English, Scottish and Irish throne (1688-1766)
- 1782Johann Christian Bach — German composer (1735–1782)
- 1793Francesco Guardi — Italian painter (1712-1793)
- 1796Alexandre-Théophile Vandermonde — French mathematician
- 1817Martin Heinrich Klaproth — German chemist (1743-1817)
- 1862Mikhail Ostrogradsky — Ukrainian mathematician (1801–1861)
- 1881Louis Auguste Blanqui — French socialist and political activist (1805-1881)
- 1894Heinrich Hertz — German physicist (1857–1894)
- 1901Ignatius Loyola Donnelly — American politician (1831-1901)
- 1921Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg — German politician (1856–1921)
- 1928Loïe Fuller — American dancer (1862–1928)
- 1931Martinus Wilhelm Beijerinck — Dutch microbiologist (1851–1931)
- 1944Edwin Lutyens — British architect (1869–1944)
- 1953Hank Williams — American singer-songwriter (1923–1953)
- 1958Edward Weston — American photographer (1886–1958)
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