January 1 in history
Events on January 1
Notable events that happened on January 1 in past years.
- 2026
Bulgaria officially adopts the Euro, becoming the 21st Eurozone country.
Wikipedia article: Bulgaria - 2013
At least 60 people are killed and 200 injured in a stampede after celebrations at Félix Houphouët-Boigny Stadium in Abidjan, Ivory Coast.
Wikipedia article: 2013 Houphouët-Boigny stampede - 2001
Greece adopts the Euro, becoming the 12th Eurozone country.
Wikipedia article: Greece - 1993
Dissolution of Czechoslovakia: Czechoslovakia is divided into the Czech Republic and Slovak Republic.
Wikipedia article: Dissolution of Czechoslovakia - 1984
Brunei becomes independent of the United Kingdom.
Wikipedia article: Brunei - 1971
Cigarette advertisements are banned on American television.
Wikipedia article: Cigarette - 1957
Lèse majesté in Thailand is strengthened to include "insult" and changed to a crime against national security, after the Thai criminal code of 1956 went into effect.: 6, 18
Wikipedia article: Lèse-majesté in Thailand - 1934
A "Law for the Prevention of Genetically Diseased Offspring" comes into effect in Nazi Germany.
Wikipedia article: Nazi eugenics - 1910
Captain David Beatty is promoted to rear admiral, and becomes the youngest admiral in the Royal Navy (except for royal family members) since Horatio Nelson.
Wikipedia article: David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty - 1885
Twenty-five nations adopt Sandford Fleming's proposal for standard time (and also, time zones).
Wikipedia article: Sandford Fleming - 1822
The Greek Constitution of 1822 is adopted by the First National Assembly at Epidaurus.
Wikipedia article: Greek Constitution of 1822 - 1781
American Revolutionary War: One thousand five hundred soldiers of the 6th Pennsylvania Regiment under General Anthony Wayne's command rebel against the Continental Army's winter camp in Morristown, New Jersey in the Pennsylvania Line Mutiny of 1781.
Wikipedia article: 6th Pennsylvania Regiment - 1700
Russia begins using the Anno Domini era instead of the Anno Mundi era of the Byzantine Empire.
Wikipedia article: Anno Domini - 1259
Michael VIII Palaiologos is proclaimed co-emperor of the Empire of Nicaea with his ward John IV Laskaris.
- 153 BC
For the first time, Roman consuls begin their year in office on January 1.
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