The January 1st is the first Jour of the Année of the Gregorian calendar . There remain 364 days before the end of the year (365 so bissextile).

December 31st * January 1st * January 2nd

Events

Before 1

  • -753 : Foundation of the town of Rome by Romulus.

  •     -45: Coming into effect of the Calendar Julien in Rome.

1 with 1900

  •    177: Convenient ( Lucius Aelius Aurelius Commodus ) (15 years), wire of Marc Aurèle and his wife Faustine, becomes officially Co-emperor: his/her father associates it with sound living with the exercise of the capacity.

  •     756: The Lombards besiege Rome: Aistolf viol the truce and puts the seat in front of Rome.
  •     898: Charles {{III}} Simple the becomes King de France.
  • 1001 : Crowning of the king Etienne {{Ier}} of Hungary.
  • 1127 : The barons anglo - Norman lend oath to recognize Mathilde Emperesse like heiress of the throne.
  • 1203 : Eudes {{III}}, duke of Burgundy, gives up the rights which it can have on the Lorraine of the chief of its mother, Alix of Lorraine.
  • 1450 : Catch of Harfleur by Charles {{VII}} with the hands of the English.
  • 1452 : The very new hospital of the Old people's homes of Beaune, the Hospital, created on the initiative of Nicolas Rolin, chancellor of the duke of Burgundy Philippe {{II}} the Good, and of his wife Saline Guigone, accommodates its first patient.
  • 1502 : Foundation of the town of Rio de Janeiro, or rather, discovered bay which one takes for a river and which one baptizes Rio, the city is founded on January 20th.
  • 1564 : The France, under Charles {{IX}}, issues with Roussillon-Castle in Dauphiné, by a royal edict (the Edit of Roussillon), that the year will begin from now on on January 1st.
  • 1582 : The pope Gregoire {{XIII}} forces the Gregorian Calendrier in order to restore a delay of 10 days with the Sun. He decides that on October 15th will succeed the 4.
  • 1622: Rome issues that the year will begin from now on on January 1st instead of the March 25th.
  • 1677 : First representation of Phèdre .
  • 1707 : Jean {{V}} is crowned king de Portugal.
  • 1785 : The Daily Universal Register is published for the first time at London. Three years later day for day, the daily newspaper will change its name for that of Times .
  • 1796 : Creation of the Ministry for the Police force.
  • 1801 :
  • 1804 : Independence of Haiti.
  • 1814 : Proclamation of the count de Provence (the Louis future) inviting his French subjects with accommodating the allied invaders well.
  • 1822 : Unilateral declaration of the independence of the Greece. (January 1st, 1822 for the Julien calendar, January 12th for the Gregorian calendar)
  • 1833: The the United Kingdom proclaims its sovereignty on the Falkland Islands.
  • 1849 : Startup of the first Postage stamp French.
  • 1860 : The town of Paris is cut out in twenty districts.
  • 1863 : Abraham Lincoln proclaims the emancipation of the slaves of the Union.
  • 1877 : The queen Victoria of the United Kingdom is proclaimed empress of the India S.
  • 1881: Sherlock Holmes becomes acquainted with the Doctor Watson.
  • 1890 : First number of the Mercure de France.
  • 1892 : Ellis Island becomes the reception center of the new ground immigrants of America.
  • 1898 : New York, formed up to that point of the districts of Manhattan and the Bronx, includes Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island; the American metropolis grows rich at the same time by 1,4 million inhabitants to count 3,4 million citizens on the whole.

20th century

  • 1901 : Independence of the Australia.

  • 1901 : First day of the XX E century
  • 1910: First Five Nations tournament. At the time of the first match, with Swansea, the French team is beaten by the Wales (49-14).
  • 1912 : Constitution of the government of the Republic of China by Sun Yat-SEN.
  • 1913 : The American Post offices make their first delivery of mail.
  • 1920: Counter-offensive of the Red Army against the troops protsarists with the general Denikine.
  • 1927 :
    • Constitution of British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), which takes the changing of British Broadcasting Company.
    • Installation of a nationalist government with Hankéou (China).
  • 1934 : Alcatraz becomes officially a federal prison.
  • 1935 : Mustafa Kemal, Head of the Turkish State, takes the name of Kemal Atatürk.
  • 1938 : Creation of the National company of the railroads French (the SNCF).
  • 1939 : Creation of lа company Hewlett-Packard.
  • 1942 :
    • Declaration of the United Nations.
    • Jean Moulin is parachuted in France like representative of the Général de Gaulle near the resistance movements of the southern zone.
  • 1945 :
  • 1951 : The forces North-Koreans and Chinese cross the lines of UNO, on the 38 {{E}} parallel.
  • 1956 : Independence of the Sudan.
  • 1958 : Coming into effect of the treaties instituting the Common Market and Euratom.
  • 1959 : Victoire of the cuban revolutionists directed by Fidel Castro: the dictator Fulgencio Batista takes refuge with the Dominique.
  • 1960 :
    • Independence of the Cameroun.
    • Put in circulation of the “new franc ” French.
  • 1962 :
    • In the studios of the firm Decca with London, a recording-test takes place with a group of the name of Beatles. The specialists in the house estimate, with the listening of the bands of recording, that the group is not likely any to obtain a popular success and commercial. Decca will rather choose to make sign a contract with Brian Poole & the Tremeloes , which passed a hearing the same day.
    • the Samoa Occidentales become the first State independent of Polynésie.
  • 1968 : Removal of the French department of the the Seine.
  • 1969: Beginning of the year international of the woman.
  • 1970 :
    • the American Congress vote a law limiting the military role of the the United States in the South-East Asia .
    • Starting point of time UNIX.
  • 1973 : The Denmark, the Great Britain and the Northern Ireland enter the European Economic community.
  • 1975 :
    • Charlie Chaplin is made commander of the British Order by the Queen Elizabeth.
    • three principal collaborators of the former president Richard Nixon, John Mitchell, H.P. Haldeman, and John Erlichman, are recognized guilty of participation in a plot in order to make obstruction with justice in the Scandale of Watergate.
  • 1978 : A Boeing 747 of Air India explodes shortly after to have taken off of Bombay, making 213 victims.
  • 1979 :
    • Beginning of the year international of the child.
    • the the United States and the popular China tie diplomatic relations.
  • 1980 : Thousands of demonstrators besiege the embassy of Soviet Union with Teheran to protest against the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan.
  • 1984 : The sultanate of Brunei reaches total independence with respect to the the United Kingdom.
  • 1985 :
    • Beginning of the year international of youth.
    • Swiss Coming into effect in of the ordinance of the July 4th 1984 regulating the documentary evidence of the origin of the goods as regards Foreign trade.
    • the the United States withdraw UNESCO, the United Nations for education, science and the culture. Washington reproach at the organization its politization, its attempts to restrict freedom of the press and its bad budgetary control. While leaving the UNESCO, which it contributed to found 38 years before, America carries a hard blow to him by depriving it of the quarter of its budget.
  • 1986 : The Spain and the Portugal become members of the the EEC which counts from now on twelve members.
  • 1990 : David Dinkins is the first black mayor to take up duty to New York.
  • 1991 : Paul Mariani, socialist mayor of Soveria (Haute-Corse), is assassinated.
  • 1992 : Boutros Boutros-Ghali succeeds Javier Pérez de Cuéllar at the station of General secretary of the United Nations.
  • 1993 :
    • Coming into effect of the Single European market and the opening of the borders.
    • Accession with the international sovereignty of the Slovak Republic and the Czech Republic.
    • the British actor Anthony Hopkins, prize winner of a Oscar for his role of Hannibal Lecter in the film the Silence of the lambs , is made knight of honor by the Queen Elizabeth.
  • 1994 :
    • Coming into effect of ALENA.
    • Rising of the Indians of the Chiapas, Mexican province .
  • 1995 : Frederick West , 53 years, accused for the murder of 12 women, is found hung in its cell of a prison of Birmingham, in Great Britain. Before dying, the “killer of the house of the horror” cleared his wife accused with him of 9 of the 12 murders.
  • 1996 :
    • Sir Cuthbert Sebastian takes its functions of general governor of Saint-Christophe-and-Niévès.
    • to thwart the massive diffusion of songs of English language, the French authorities impose on the radio stations a quota 40  % of songs of French expression, causing a polemic in the musical world and the radios for the young people. With the Quebec, the French-speaking radios have had for several years to diffuse at least 65  % of songs in six hour old French at midnight, and 30  % minimum of Canadian songs of French or English expression.
  • 1996 : Birth of Amin, with vintage champagne.
  • 1997 : During the promotion of the New year of the Order of the Legion of honor, the dressmaker Pierre Cardin and the violonist of jazz Stephan Grappelli are named commanders. Michel Serrault and Henri Salvador reaches the rank of officer, while Johnny Hallyday and Sacha Distel is entitled to the title of knight.
  • 1998 : An Hutu thousand of rebels S attack a military camp and a village located close to the airport of Bujumbura at the Burundi: 182 died, including 150 civilians.
  • 1999 : Introduction of the European currency (the Euro).
  • 2000 :
    • Date on which the Bogue of the year 2000 was to occur, on January 1st with 0:00.
    • a table of the French painter Paul Cézanne, Farmyard in Auvers , estimated at three million books (: 4800000 euros) is stolen in the night of the New year to the museum of Oxford (Great Britain).
    • In the United Kingdom, the Metric system replaces the imperial system. Only milk and the beer are always sold in pints.

21e century

  • 2001 :

    • Beginning and first day of the 21e century and of.
    • Calcutta, the big city of the Indian Bengal is officially famous Kolkata.
    • a ship transporting more eighty-three people, for the majority of the clandestine immigrants, breaks in two parts and dark after having run up against rocks off the tourist resort of Kemer on the southern part of the Turkey: nineteen died, forty carried disappeared.
    • First direct sea link between Taiwan and the China since fifty and one years.
    • the Greece enters the Euro area.
    • Paris, Eiffel Tower: The twenty thousand bulbs start to scintillate in blue.
  • 2002 :
    • the France and its eleven other partners of the Euro area definitively adopt the single currency while passing to the Euro, three years after its coming into effect.
    • theoretical Coming into effect of the reduction of the weekly working time at thirty-five hours for the small and medium-size companies of less than twenty paid.
    • Michael Bloomberg succeeds very popular the Rudolph Giuliani at the post of mayor of New York.
  • 2003 :
    • the oil slick of the Prestige starts to touch the Aquitanian littoral with the appearance of pellets and small plates of Hydrocarbure S on a beach of Biscarrosse (Landes).
    • the Greece takes the rotating presidency of the European Union, succeeding the Denmark.
    • Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, known as Lula, becomes first president of left of the country.
  • 2004 :
    • In Haiti, the ceremonies of the bicentenary of independence are disturbed by confrontations between partisans and adversaries of the President Jean-Bertrand Aristide
    • In France, the law authorizes for the first time at the press, the edition and large distribution to make Publicité televised
    • the type-setter Henri Dutilleux is high with the dignity of Grand-croix of the Légion of honor
    • In France, coming into effect of the law decentralizing RMI - minimum wages of insertion - and creating RMA - minimum wages of activity.
  • 2005 :
    • Coming into effect in France of the reform of the Divorce, modifying in-depth the four modes of divorce inherited the Law Carbonnier of 1975.
    • the Luxembourg assumes for six months the presidency of the European Union. Jean-Claude Juncker, its Prime Minister becomes president of the Eurogroupe for one two years period.
  • 2006 :
    • Azerbaïdjan : revaluation of the manat
    • Canada: thirty municipalities of the province of the Quebec will be reconstituted, result of a referendum held on June 20th, 2004
    • France:
      • Creation of the Postal bank, subsidiary of La Poste, which replaces the already existing finance departments.
      • implemented of the Organic law concerning at the finance laws within the State.
    • Palestine: The radical Palestinian movement Hamas, person in charge of many attacks anti-Israelis, announces that it will not prolong the agreement on a truce of violence, concluded in March with the Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, which indicated that this decision, making following that of the Islamic Jihad and several armed factions related to the Fatah the day before, was a “serious error”.
    • Swiss: Moritz Leuenberger takes its president's functions of the Confederation.
    • European Union: The Austria takes for six months the rotating presidency of the European Union, succeeding the the United Kingdom.
    • the Vatican: During the mass of the New year, devoted to the topic of peace, celebrated in the Basilica Saint-Pierre of Rome, the pope Benoît {{XVI}} called UNO with a renewed conscience of his responsibilities to promote justice, solidarity and peace in the world.
  • 2007 :
    • European Union: the Bulgaria and the Romania enter the European Union which counts from now on nearly 500 million inhabitants divided in 27 Pays. The Slovenia joined the Euro area and adopts its new currency to replace the Tolar. The Germany takes the Présidence of the Council of the European Union for the six next months
    • United Nations: the South Korean Ban Ki-moon becomes new the General secretary of the United Nations. It replaces Kofi Annan which had been with the head of the Secrétariat of the United Nations for ten years.
    • Bielorussia/Russia: An agreement was found between the Bielorussia and the gas giant Russian Gazprom on the prices of the Natural gas. This five years agreement was found a few hours only before the ultimatum of the Russian authorities does not expire which threatened to cut the supply of its neighbor and indirectly the distribution natural gas the European countries in the event of retaliatory measures of Bielorussia towards the pipeline S crossing its country.
    • Indonesia: disappearance of a Boeing 737 of the company indonésienne Adam Air at the time of the Flight 574 between the island of Java and the island of Sulawesi, with 102 people on board.
    • Somalia: the helped regular army of forces Ethiopia did not manage to drive out the combatants Islam ists of the south of the country.

Births

Death

Celebrations

  • the New Year's Day is non-working in a great number of Pays, in particular all those of Western Christian tradition: the Christ, whose birth was fixed the December 25th of the last year of old the era, is afterwards circoncis eight days according to the Jewish Loi, that is to say on January 1st; this event marks its entry in the world of the men with a name and a social identity. Its advent in plenitude coincides symbolically with the New Year's Day and the new era. However, the Catholic church does not attach any more same importance but formerly to this festival.

  • This day was proclaimed the world Day of peace on the initiative of the Catholic church.
  • Haiti: National festival of Independence (1804)
  • Sudan: National festival of Independence (1956)

Catholic and orthodoxe saints of the day

  • Basile Large the bishop of Césarée (Eastern date)

Catholic saints of the day

  • Marie: the Virgin Mary is celebrated several times per annum in different the Christian calendars.
  • Eugend
  • Horace

See too

  • 1 {{er}} January in sport
  • 1 {{er}} January in the railroads

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