Date Name Location / Topic
Jan1Sunday

New Year's Day

Jan1Sunday

New Year's Day

Jan1Sunday

New Year

Jan1Sunday

New Year

Jan1Sunday

Liberation Day

Jan1Sunday

Republic Day/New Year's Day

Jan1Sunday

New Year's Day/Independence Day

Jan1Sunday

Republic Day

Jan1Sunday

Restoration of the Czech Independence Day

Jan1Sunday

Independence Day

Jan1Sunday

Independence Day

Jan1Sunday

Polar Bear Plunge Day

Jan1Sunday

International New Year's Day

Jan1Sunday

National Hangover Day

Jan1Sunday

National Bloody Mary Day

Jan1Sunday

Diet Resolution Week

Jan1Sunday

National Silent Record Week

Jan1Sunday

Celebration Of Life Week

Jan1Sunday

New Year’s Resolutions Week

Jan1Sunday

National Mentoring Month

Jan1Sunday

National CBD Month

Jan1Sunday

National Bath Safety Month

Jan1Sunday

National Black Diamond Month

Jan1Sunday

National Blood Donor Month

Jan1Sunday

National Braille Literacy Month

Jan1Sunday

National Hobby Month

Jan1Sunday

National Hot Tea Month

Jan1Sunday

National Oatmeal Month

Jan1Sunday

National Slavery And Human Trafficking Prevention Month

Jan1Sunday

National Slow Cooking Month

Jan1Sunday

National Soup Month

Jan1Sunday

National Sunday Supper Month

Jan1Sunday

Global Family Day

Jan1Sunday

Public Domain Day

Jan1Sunday

National First Foot Day

Jan1Sunday

Apple Gifting Day

Jan1Sunday

Z Day

Jan1Sunday

Ring A Bell Day

Jan1Sunday

Copyright Law Day

Jan1Sunday

Euro Day

Jan1Sunday

Commitment Day

Jan1Sunday

National Menudo Month

Jan1Sunday

Universal Hour Of Peace

Historical Events on January 1

  • 1707: John V becomes Portugal’s King.
  • 1739: French explorer Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier.discovers what would become known as Bouvet Island.
  • 1773: “1 Chronicles 17: 16-17” is performed for the first time following a sermon given by John Newton in Olney, Buckinghamshire in England. This hymn would later become known as Amazing Grace.
  • 1776: After intense fighting by Royal Navy and Continental Army forces, the city of Norfolk in Virginia catches on fire during the American Revolutionary War.
  • 1781: During the American Revolutionary War, fifteen hundred soldiers of the 6th Pennsylvania Regiment rebel against the Continental Army’s winter camp in Morristown, New Jersey. This would become known as the Pennsylvania Line Mutiny of 1781.
  • 1801: The largest known object to date in the Asteroid Belt – a minor planet known as Ceres – is discovered on this day by Giuseppe Piazzi.
  • 1808: Importing slaves into the U.S is outlawed on this day, although slavery remains legal.
  • 1847: The Sisters of Mercy establish the first hospital in the U.S with the name “Mercy” in it. “Mercy” would eventually go on to grace over thirty hospitals all over the world.
  • 1892: Ellis Island opens on this day and begins processing immigrants into the U.S.
  • 1908: At midnight, for the first time in American history, a ball is dropped in New York’s Times Square to announce the start of New Year.
  • 1927: In Mexico, the Cristero War starts.

Famous Birthdays on January 1

  • American silversmith and patriot, Paul Revere is born in 1735.
  • American general Anthony Wayne is born in 1745.
  • American seamstress Betsy Ross is born in 1752.
  • British science writer Jane Marcet is born in 1769.
  • English author and playwright, E.M. Forster is born in 1879.
  • American actor Charles Bickford is born in 1889.
  • Slovenian geographer Anton Melik is born in 1890.
  • American law enforcement official and 1st Director of the FBI, J. Edgar Hoover is born in 1895.
  • American novelist J.D. Salinger is born in 1919.
  • English general John Strawson is born in 1921.
  • American illustrator Jerry Robinson is born in 1922.