January 1st All Events |
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| January 1st, 2045 (January 01 2045) | Event | The Julian calendar takes effect for the first time. | Julian Quotes |
| January 1st, 2008 (January 01 2008) | Event | A New Hampshire law legalizing civil unions for same-sex couples comes into effect. | |
| January 1st, 2008 (January 01 2008) | Event | Malta and Cyprus officially adopt the Euro currency. | |
| January 1st, 2008 (January 01 2008) | Death | Salvatore Bonanno, son of Joseph Bonnano (born in 1932) | |
| January 1st, 2008 (January 01 2008) | Death | Peter Caffrey, Irish actor (born in 1949) | |
| January 1st, 2008 (January 01 2008) | Death | Pratap Chandra Chunder, union minister of India (born in 1919) | |
| January 1st, 2008 (January 01 2008) | Death | Harold Corsini, American photographer (born in 1919) | |
| January 1st, 2007 (January 01 2007) | Event | Bulgaria and Romania officially join the European Union. Also, Bulgarian, Romanian, and Irish become official languages of the European Union, joining 20 other official languages. | |
| January 1st, 2007 (January 01 2007) | Event | Adam Air Flight 574 disappears over Indonesia with 102 people on board. | |
| January 1st, 2007 (January 01 2007) | Death | A. I. Bezzerides, American novelist and screenwriter (born in 1908) | |
| January 1st, 2007 (January 01 2007) | Death | Ernie Koy, American baseball player (born in 1909) | |
| January 1st, 2007 (January 01 2007) | Death | Tillie Olsen, American writer (born in 1912) | |
| January 1st, 2007 (January 01 2007) | Death | Leon Davidson, American scientist known for studying UFOs (born in 1922) | |
| January 1st, 2007 (January 01 2007) | Death | Julius Hegyi, American conductor (born in 1923) | |
| January 1st, 2007 (January 01 2007) | Death | Del Reeves, American country singer (born in 1932) | |
| January 1st, 2007 (January 01 2007) | Death | Roland Levinsky, South African medical scientist (born in 1943) | |
| January 1st, 2007 (January 01 2007) | Death | Leonard Fraser, Australian serial killer (born in 1951) | |
| January 1st, 2007 (January 01 2007) | Death | Tad Jones, American jazz music historian (born in 1952) | |
| January 1st, 2007 (January 01 2007) | Death | Darrent Williams, American football player (born in 1982) | |
| January 1st, 2006 (January 01 2006) | Death | Harry Magdoff, American magazine editor (born in 1913) | |
| January 1st, 2006 (January 01 2006) | Death | Hugh McLaughlin, Irish publisher and inventor (born in 1918) | |
| January 1st, 2006 (January 01 2006) | Death | Dawn Lake, Australian TV comedienne (born in 1927) | |
| January 1st, 2006 (January 01 2006) | Death | Bryan Harvey, American musician (House of Freaks) (born in 1956) | |
| January 1st, 2005 (January 01 2005) | Death | Shirley Chisholm, American politician (born in 1924) | |
| January 1st, 2005 (January 01 2005) | Death | Hugh Lawson, 6th Baron Burnham, British newspaperman (born in 1931) | |
| January 1st, 2005 (January 01 2005) | Death | Eugene J. Martin, American painter, artist (born in 1938) | Eugene J. Martin Quotes |
| January 1st, 2005 (January 01 2005) | Death | Bob Matsui, American politician (born in 1941) | |
| January 1st, 2004 (January 01 2004) | Event | In a vote of confidence, General Pervez Musharraf wins 658 out of 1,170 votes in the Electoral College of Pakistan, and according to Article 41(8) of the Constitution of Pakistan, was "deemed to be elected" to the office of President until October 2007. | |
| January 1st, 2003 (January 01 2003) | Death | Joe Foss, American politician, fighter pilot and AFL Commissioner (born in 1915) | |
| January 1st, 2003 (January 01 2003) | Death | F. William Free, American advertising executive (born in 1928) | |
| January 1st, 2003 (January 01 2003) | Death | Cyril Shaps, English actor (born in 1923) | |
| January 1st, 2002 (January 01 2002) | Event | Euro banknotes and coins become legal tender in twelve of the European Union s member states. | |
| January 1st, 2002 (January 01 2002) | Event | Taiwan officially joins the World Trade Organization, as Chinese Taipei. | |
| January 1st, 2002 (January 01 2002) | Event | The Open Skies mutual surveillance treaty, initially signed in 1992, officially comes into force. | |
| January 1st, 2002 (January 01 2002) | Event | Pluto is officially declared not a planet. | |
| January 1st, 2002 (January 01 2002) | Death | Julia Phillips, American film producer (born in 1944) | |
| January 1st, 2001 (January 01 2001) | Death | Ray Walston, American actor (born in 1914) | |
| January 1st, 2000 (January 01 2000) | Event | As the world celebrates, no major crisis arises from the dreaded Y2K computer "millennium bug". | |
| January 1st, 2000 (January 01 2000) | Death | Colin Vaughan, Australian political journalist (born in 1931) | |
| January 1st, 1999 (January 01 1999) | Event | The Euro currency is introduced. | |
| January 1st, 1999 (January 01 1999) | Event | new administrative division of Polandthe country is divided in 16 voivodeships (regions) instead of previous 49. | |
| January 1st, 1998 (January 01 1998) | Event | Russia begins to circulate new rubles to stem inflation and promote confidence. | |
| January 1st, 1998 (January 01 1998) | Event | The European Central Bank is established. | |
| January 1st, 1998 (January 01 1998) | Birth | Marlene Lawston, American child actress | |
| January 1st, 1998 (January 01 1998) | Death | Helen Wills Moody, American tennis player (born in 1905) | |
| January 1st, 1997 (January 01 1997) | Event | The Republic of Zaire officially joins the World Trade Organization, as Zaire. | |
| January 1st, 1997 (January 01 1997) | Event | Ghanaian diplomat Kofi Annan is appointed Secretary General of the United Nations. | |
| January 1st, 1997 (January 01 1997) | Death | Hagood Hardy, Canadian composer and musician (born in 1937) | |
| January 1st, 1997 (January 01 1997) | Death | Townes Van Zandt, American musician (born in 1944) | |
| January 1st, 1996 (January 01 1996) | Event | Curacao gains limited self-government, though it remains within free association with the Kingdom of the Netherlands. | Cao Cao Quotes |
| January 1st, 1996 (January 01 1996) | Birth | Mary Gibbs, American child actress | |
| January 1st, 1996 (January 01 1996) | Death | Arleigh Burke, American admiral (born in 1901) | |
| January 1st, 1996 (January 01 1996) | Death | Arthur Rudolph, German engineer (born in 1906) | |
| January 1st, 1995 (January 01 1995) | Event | The World Trade Organization comes into effect. | |
| January 1st, 1995 (January 01 1995) | Event | The Kingdom of Sweden and the republics of Austria and Finland are admitted into the European Union. | |
| January 1st, 1995 (January 01 1995) | Event | The Conference for Security and Co-operation in Europe becomes the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe. | |
| January 1st, 1995 (January 01 1995) | Event | The Draupner wave in the North Sea in Norway is detected, confirming the existence of freak waves. | |
| January 1st, 1995 (January 01 1995) | Event | Firecrackers are banned in Vietnam on T?t for safety reasons. | |
| January 1st, 1995 (January 01 1995) | Death | Eugene Wigner, Hungarian physicist, Nobel laureate (born in 1902) | |
| January 1st, 1995 (January 01 1995) | Death | Fred West, British serial killer (suicide) (born in 1941) | |
| January 1st, 1994 (January 01 1994) | Event | The Zapatista Army of National Liberation initiates twelve days of armed conflict in the Mexican State of Chiapas. | |
| January 1st, 1994 (January 01 1994) | Event | The North American Free Trade Agreement comes into effect. | |
| January 1st, 1994 (January 01 1994) | Event | The European Economic Area comes into effect. | |
| January 1st, 1994 (January 01 1994) | Event | The International Tropical Timber Agreement comes into effect. | |
| January 1st, 1994 (January 01 1994) | Death | Lord Arthur Porritt, Governor-General of New Zealand (born in 1900) | |
| January 1st, 1994 (January 01 1994) | Death | Cesar Romero, American actor (born in 1907) | |
| January 1st, 1993 (January 01 1993) | Event | Dissolution of Czechoslovakia: Czechoslovakia is divided into the Slovak Republic and the Czech Republic. | |
| January 1st, 1993 (January 01 1993) | Event | A single market within the European Community is introduced. | |
| January 1st, 1992 (January 01 1992) | Death | Grace Hopper, American computer pioneer (born in 1906) | Grace Hopper Quotes |
| January 1st, 1991 (January 01 1991) | Birth | Kathleen Herles, American voice actor | |
| January 1st, 1991 (January 01 1991) | Death | Buck Ram, American songwriter and businessman (The Platters) (born in 1907) | |
| January 1st, 1990 (January 01 1990) | Event | David Dinkins is sworn in as New York City s first black mayor. | |
| January 1st, 1989 (January 01 1989) | Event | The Montreal Protocol on Substances That Deplete the Ozone Layer comes into force. | |
| January 1st, 1988 (January 01 1988) | Event | The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America comes into existence, creating the largest Lutheran denomination in the United States. | |
| January 1st, 1987 (January 01 1987) | Birth | Gilbert Brule, Canadian professional hockey player | |
| January 1st, 1987 (January 01 1987) | Birth | Meryl Davis, American ice dancer | |
| January 1st, 1987 (January 01 1987) | Birth | Devin Setoguchi, Canadian professional hockey player | |
| January 1st, 1986 (January 01 1986) | Event | Aruba becomes independent of Curacao, though it remains in free association with the Kingdom of the Netherlands. | Cao Cao Quotes |
| January 1st, 1986 (January 01 1986) | Event | The Kingdom of Spain and the Portuguese Republic are admitted into the European Community. | |
| January 1st, 1986 (January 01 1986) | Birth | Glen Davis, American basketball player | |
| January 1st, 1986 (January 01 1986) | Death | Alfredo Binda, Italian cyclist (born in 1902) | |
| January 1st, 1986 (January 01 1986) | Death | Bruce Norris, American hockey executive (Detroit Red Wings) (born in 1924) | |
| January 1st, 1985 (January 01 1985) | Event | The Internet s Domain Name System is created. | |
| January 1st, 1985 (January 01 1985) | Event | The first British mobile phone call is made by Ernie Wise to Vodafone. | |
| January 1st, 1985 (January 01 1985) | Birth | Steven Davis, Northern Irish footballer | |
| January 1st, 1985 (January 01 1985) | Death | Kamatari Fujiwara, Japanese actor (born in 1905) | |
| January 1st, 1984 (January 01 1984) | Event | The original American Telephone & Telegraph Company is broken up into twenty-two independent units as a result of the settlement of the 1974 United States Department of Justice antitrust suit against AT&T . | |
| January 1st, 1984 (January 01 1984) | Event | The Sultanate of Brunei becomes independent of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. | |
| January 1st, 1984 (January 01 1984) | Birth | Jose Paolo Guerrero, Peruvian footballer | |
| January 1st, 1984 (January 01 1984) | Birth | Alok Kapali, Bangladeshi cricketer | |
| January 1st, 1984 (January 01 1984) | Birth | Shareefa, American singer | |
| January 1st, 1984 (January 01 1984) | Birth | Michael Witt, Australian rugby league footballer | |
| January 1st, 1984 (January 01 1984) | Death | Alexis Korner, British blues musician (born in 1928) | |
| January 1st, 1983 (January 01 1983) | Event | The ARPANET officially changes to using the Internet Protocol, creating the Internet. | |
| January 1st, 1983 (January 01 1983) | Birth | Ali Bastian, English actress and model | |
| January 1st, 1983 (January 01 1983) | Birth | Calum Davenport, English footballer | |
| January 1st, 1983 (January 01 1983) | Birth | Emi Kobayashi, Japanese model | |
| January 1st, 1982 (January 01 1982) | Event | Peruvian Javier Perez de Cuellar becomes the first Latin American to hold the title of Secretary General of the United Nations. | |
| January 1st, 1982 (January 01 1982) | Birth | David Nalbandian, Argentinian tennis player | |
| January 1st, 1982 (January 01 1982) | Death | Victor Buono, American actor (born in 1938) | |
| January 1st, 1981 (January 01 1981) | Event | The Republic of Greece is admitted into the European Community. | |
| January 1st, 1981 (January 01 1981) | Event | The Republic of Palau achieves self-government though it is not independent from the United States. | |
| January 1st, 1981 (January 01 1981) | Birth | Jonas Armstrong, Irish actor | |
| January 1st, 1981 (January 01 1981) | Birth | Zsolt Baumgartner, Hungarian race car driver | |
| January 1st, 1981 (January 01 1981) | Birth | Abdulkadir Kocak, Turkish boxer | |
| January 1st, 1981 (January 01 1981) | Birth | Eden Riegel, American actress | |
| January 1st, 1981 (January 01 1981) | Death | Hephzibah Menuhin, American-Jewish concert pianist (born in 1920) | |
| January 1st, 1980 (January 01 1980) | Event | Victoria is crowned princess of Sweden. | |
| January 1st, 1980 (January 01 1980) | Birth | Elin Nordegren, Swedish model | |
| January 1st, 1980 (January 01 1980) | Death | Pietro Nenni, Italian socialist politician (born in 1891) | |
| January 1st, 1980 (January 01 1980) | Death | Adolph Deutsch, American composer and arranger (born in 1897) | |
| January 1st, 1979 (January 01 1979) | Event | Formal diplomatic relations are established between the People s Republic of China and the United States of America. | |
| January 1st, 1979 (January 01 1979) | Birth | Brody Dalle, Australian singer (The Distillers) | |
| January 1st, 1979 (January 01 1979) | Birth | Koichi Domoto, Japanese artist | |
| January 1st, 1978 (January 01 1978) | Event | Air India Flight 855 Boeing 747 crashes into the sea, due to instrument failure and pilot disorientation, off the coast of Bombay, killing 213. | |
| January 1st, 1978 (January 01 1978) | Event | The Constitution of the Northern Mariana Islands becomes effective. | |
| January 1st, 1978 (January 01 1978) | Birth | Vidya Balan, Indian actress | |
| January 1st, 1978 (January 01 1978) | Birth | Nina Bott, German actress | |
| January 1st, 1978 (January 01 1978) | Birth | Jensen Ackles, American actor | |
| January 1st, 1978 (January 01 1978) | Birth | Phillip Mulryne, Northern Irish footballer | |
| January 1st, 1978 (January 01 1978) | Birth | Paramahamsa Sri Nithyananda, Indian spiritualist | |
| January 1st, 1978 (January 01 1978) | Birth | Tarik O Regan, British composer | |
| January 1st, 1977 (January 01 1977) | Birth | Keeley Hawes, British actress | |
| January 1st, 1977 (January 01 1977) | Birth | Hasan Salihamidzic, Bosnian footballer | |
| January 1st, 1976 (January 01 1976) | Birth | Caleb Wyatt, American motocross rider | |
| January 1st, 1976 (January 01 1976) | Birth | Georgina Chapman, British fashion designer and actress | |
| January 1st, 1975 (January 01 1975) | Birth | Sonali Bendre, Indian model and actress | |
| January 1st, 1975 (January 01 1975) | Birth | Joe Cannon, American soccer player | |
| January 1st, 1975 (January 01 1975) | Birth | Eiichiro Oda, Japanese Manga artist | |
| January 1st, 1974 (January 01 1974) | Birth | Catalina Guirado, English model and TV personality | |
| January 1st, 1973 (January 01 1973) | Event | Denmark, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and the Republic of Ireland are admitted into the European Community. | |
| January 1st, 1973 (January 01 1973) | Birth | Anwar Mansoor Mangrio, Sindhi poet & research scholar. | |
| January 1st, 1972 (January 01 1972) | Event | Austrian diplomat Kurt Waldheim becomes Secretary General of the United Nations. | |
| January 1st, 1972 (January 01 1972) | Birth | Neve McIntosh, Scottish actress | |
| January 1st, 1972 (January 01 1972) | Birth | Lilian Thuram, French footballer | |
| January 1st, 1972 (January 01 1972) | Birth | DJ Shadow, American DJ and songwriter | |
| January 1st, 1972 (January 01 1972) | Death | Maurice Chevalier, French actor and singer (born in 1888) | Maurice Chevalier Quotes |
| January 1st, 1971 (January 01 1971) | Event | Cigarette advertisements are banned on American television. | |
| January 1st, 1971 (January 01 1971) | Birth | Bobby Holik, Czech hockey player | |
| January 1st, 1971 (January 01 1971) | Birth | Sammie Henson, American wrestler | |
| January 1st, 1971 (January 01 1971) | Death | Saint Amphilochius of Pochayiv, Ukrainian Orthodox Christian Saint (born in 1894) | Philo Quotes |
| January 1st, 1970 (January 01 1970) | Birth | Gabriel Jarret, American actor | |
| January 1st, 1970 (January 01 1970) | Birth | Shelley O Donnell, Australian netballer | |
| January 1st, 1970 (January 01 1970) | Birth | Kimberly Page, American actress | |
| January 1st, 1969 (January 01 1969) | Birth | Morris Chestnut, American actor | |
| January 1st, 1969 (January 01 1969) | Birth | Sophie Okonedo, British actress | |
| January 1st, 1969 (January 01 1969) | Birth | Christi Paul, American news anchor | |
| January 1st, 1969 (January 01 1969) | Birth | Verne Troyer, American actor | |
| January 1st, 1969 (January 01 1969) | Birth | Nicolle Dickson, Australian actress | |
| January 1st, 1969 (January 01 1969) | Death | Bruno Soderstrom, Swedish athlete (born in 1888) | |
| January 1st, 1969 (January 01 1969) | Death | Barton MacLane, American actor (born in 1902) | |
| January 1st, 1968 (January 01 1968) | Birth | Joey Stefano, American adult actor (died in 1994) | |
| January 1st, 1968 (January 01 1968) | Birth | Miki Higashino, Japanese composer | |
| January 1st, 1968 (January 01 1968) | Birth | Davor Suker, Croatian footballer | |
| January 1st, 1967 (January 01 1967) | Birth | Derrick Thomas, American football player (died in 2000) | |
| January 1st, 1967 (January 01 1967) | Birth | Juanma Bajo Ulloa, Spanish film director | |
| January 1st, 1967 (January 01 1967) | Birth | John Digweed, English DJ | |
| January 1st, 1967 (January 01 1967) | Birth | Tim Dog, American rapper | |
| January 1st, 1966 (January 01 1966) | Event | A twelve-day New York City transit strike begins. | |
| January 1st, 1966 (January 01 1966) | Event | After a coup, Colonel Jean-Bedel Bokassa assumes power as president of the Central African Republic. | Bede Quotes |
| January 1st, 1966 (January 01 1966) | Birth | Anna Burke, Australian politician | |
| January 1st, 1966 (January 01 1966) | Death | Vincent Auriol, French politician (born in 1884) | |
| January 1st, 1965 (January 01 1965) | Event | The People s Democratic Party of Afghanistan is founded in Kabul. | |
| January 1st, 1964 (January 01 1964) | Event | The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland is divided into the independent republics of Zambia and Malawi, and the British-controlled Rhodesia. | |
| January 1st, 1964 (January 01 1964) | Birth | Juliana Donald, American actress | Julian Quotes |
| January 1st, 1964 (January 01 1964) | Birth | Dedee Pfeiffer, American actress | |
| January 1st, 1964 (January 01 1964) | Death | Bechara El Khoury, President of Lebanon (born in 1890) | |
| January 1st, 1963 (January 01 1963) | Birth | Lina Kaciusyte, Lithuanian swimmer | |
| January 1st, 1963 (January 01 1963) | Death | Dr Gilbert Bogle and Mrs Margaret Chandler, Australian victims of an unsolved murder or possibly accidental death | |
| January 1st, 1962 (January 01 1962) | Event | Western Samoa achieves independence from New Zealand; its name is changed to the Independent State of Western Samoa. | |
| January 1st, 1962 (January 01 1962) | Event | United States Navy SEALs established. | |
| January 1st, 1962 (January 01 1962) | Event | The Beatles unsuccessfully auditions for Decca Records. | |
| January 1st, 1962 (January 01 1962) | Birth | Sophie Thompson, British actress | |
| January 1st, 1962 (January 01 1962) | Birth | Ari Up, German musician (The Slits) | |
| January 1st, 1961 (January 01 1961) | Birth | Fiona Phillips, British television presenter | |
| January 1st, 1961 (January 01 1961) | Birth | Mark Wingett, British actor | |
| January 1st, 1961 (January 01 1961) | Birth | Sam Palahnuk, American video game designer | |
| January 1st, 1960 (January 01 1960) | Event | The Republic of Cameroon achieves independence from France and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. | |
| January 1st, 1960 (January 01 1960) | Death | Margaret Sullavan, American actress (born in 1909) | |
| January 1st, 1959 (January 01 1959) | Event | Cultivars of plants named after this date must be named in a modern language, not in Latin.[citation needed] | |
| January 1st, 1959 (January 01 1959) | Event | Fulgencio Batista, president of Cuba, is overthrown by Fidel Castro s forces during the Cuban Revolution. | Fidel Castro Quotes |
| January 1st, 1959 (January 01 1959) | Birth | Azali Assoumani, Comorian president | |
| January 1st, 1959 (January 01 1959) | Birth | Jennifer Edwards, American actress | |
| January 1st, 1959 (January 01 1959) | Birth | Panagiotis Giannakis, Greek basketball player and coach | |
| January 1st, 1958 (January 01 1958) | Event | The European Community is established. | |
| January 1st, 1958 (January 01 1958) | Birth | Grandmaster Flash, Barbadian musician | |
| January 1st, 1958 (January 01 1958) | Death | Edward Weston, American photographer (born in 1886) | |
| January 1st, 1957 (January 01 1957) | Event | George Town, Penang becomes a city by a royal charter granted by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. | |
| January 1st, 1957 (January 01 1957) | Event | An Irish Republican Army (IRA) unit attacks Brookeborough RUC barracks in one of the most famous incidents of the IRA s Operation Harvest. | |
| January 1st, 1957 (January 01 1957) | Birth | Ewa Kasprzyk, Polish actress | |
| January 1st, 1957 (January 01 1957) | Birth | Evangelos Venizelos, Greek lawyer, professor and politician | |
| January 1st, 1957 (January 01 1957) | Death | Sean South and Fergal O Hanlon are killed in the Brookeborough Raid. | |
| January 1st, 1956 (January 01 1956) | Event | The Republic of the Sudan achieves independence from the Egyptian Republic and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. | |
| January 1st, 1956 (January 01 1956) | Event | A new year event causes panic and stampedes at Yahiko Shrine, Yahiko, central Niigata, Japan, killing at least 124 people. | |
| January 1st, 1956 (January 01 1956) | Birth | Mark R. Hughes, American entrepreneur (died in 2000) | |
| January 1st, 1956 (January 01 1956) | Birth | Sergei Avdeyev, Russian cosmonaut | |
| January 1st, 1956 (January 01 1956) | Birth | Mike Mitchell, American basketball player | |
| January 1st, 1956 (January 01 1956) | Birth | Koji Yakusho, Japanese actor | |
| January 1st, 1954 (January 01 1954) | Birth | Bob Menendez, American politician | |
| January 1st, 1954 (January 01 1954) | Death | Duff Cooper, British diplomat and writer (born in 1890) | |
| January 1st, 1953 (January 01 1953) | Birth | Greg Carmichael, British guitarist (Acoustic Alchemy) | |
| January 1st, 1953 (January 01 1953) | Death | Hank Williams, American singer (born in 1923) | |
| January 1st, 1951 (January 01 1951) | Birth | Ashfaq Hussain, Urdu poet | |
| January 1st, 1951 (January 01 1951) | Birth | Nana Patekar, Indian film and stage actor | |
| January 1st, 1951 (January 01 1951) | Birth | Hans-Joachim Stuck, German race car driver | |
| January 1st, 1950 (January 01 1950) | Event | The state of Ajaigarh is ceded to the Government of India. | |
| January 1st, 1950 (January 01 1950) | Birth | Morgan Fisher, English musician (Mott the Hoople) | |
| January 1st, 1950 (January 01 1950) | Birth | Deepa Mehta, Indian-born Canadian film director and screenwriter | |
| January 1st, 1949 (January 01 1949) | Event | United Nations cease-fire takes effect in Kashmir from one minute before midnight. War between India and Pakistan stops accordingly. | |
| January 1st, 1949 (January 01 1949) | Birth | Daniel E Gawthrop, American composer | |
| January 1st, 1948 (January 01 1948) | Event | British railways are nationalised to form British Rail. | |
| January 1st, 1948 (January 01 1948) | Event | After partition, India declines to pay the agreed share of Rs.550 million in cash balances to Pakistan. | |
| January 1st, 1948 (January 01 1948) | Event | The Constitution of Italy comes into force. | |
| January 1st, 1948 (January 01 1948) | Birth | Pavel Grachev, Russian general | |
| January 1st, 1947 (January 01 1947) | Event | The American and British occupation zones in Germany, after the World War II, merge to form the Bizone, that later became the Federal Republic of Germany. | |
| January 1st, 1947 (January 01 1947) | Birth | Jon Corzine, American politician | |
| January 1st, 1947 (January 01 1947) | Birth | Paula Tsui, Hong Kong singer | |
| January 1st, 1946 (January 01 1946) | Event | The first civil flight from Heathrow Airport occurs. | |
| January 1st, 1946 (January 01 1946) | Birth | Carl B. Hamilton, Swedish economist and politician | |
| January 1st, 1946 (January 01 1946) | Birth | Rick Hurst, American actor | |
| January 1st, 1946 (January 01 1946) | Birth | Rivelino, Brazilian football player | |
| January 1st, 1945 (January 01 1945) | Event | World War II: In retaliation for the Malmedy massacre, U.S. troops massacre 30 SS prisoners at Chenogne. | |
| January 1st, 1945 (January 01 1945) | Event | World War II: The German Luftwaffe launches Unternehmen Bodenplatte, a massive, but failed attempt to knock out Allied air power in northern Europe in a single blow. | |
| January 1st, 1945 (January 01 1945) | Birth | Peter Duncan, Australian politician | |
| January 1st, 1945 (January 01 1945) | Birth | Jacky Ickx, Belgian race car driver | |
| January 1st, 1944 (January 01 1944) | Birth | Jimmy Hart, American wrestling manager | |
| January 1st, 1944 (January 01 1944) | Birth | Zafarullah Khan Jamali, Pakistani politician | |
| January 1st, 1944 (January 01 1944) | Death | Sir Edward Lutyens, British architect who designed New Delhi (born in 1869) | |
| January 1st, 1944 (January 01 1944) | Death | Charles Turner, Australian cricketer (born in 1862) | |
| January 1st, 1943 (January 01 1943) | Birth | Raghunath Anant Mashelkar, Indian scientist | |
| January 1st, 1943 (January 01 1943) | Birth | Don Novello, American actor | |
| January 1st, 1943 (January 01 1943) | Birth | Larry Clark, American director | |
| January 1st, 1943 (January 01 1943) | Death | Colonel Andrew Summers Rowan, U.S. military officer who gave "a message to Garcia" (born in 1857) | |
| January 1st, 1942 (January 01 1942) | Event | The Declaration by the United Nations is signed by twenty-six nations. | |
| January 1st, 1942 (January 01 1942) | Event | World War II: The U.S. Office of Production Management prohibits sales of new cars and trucks to civilians. | |
| January 1st, 1942 (January 01 1942) | Birth | Gennadi Sarafanov, Soviet cosmonaut (died in 2005) | |
| January 1st, 1942 (January 01 1942) | Birth | Country Joe McDonald, American musician (Country Joe and the Fish) | |
| January 1st, 1942 (January 01 1942) | Birth | Martin Frost, American politician | |
| January 1st, 1942 (January 01 1942) | Birth | Alassane Ouattara, Former Prime Minister of Ivory Coast | |
| January 1st, 1942 (January 01 1942) | Birth | Judy Stone, Australian pop singer | |
| January 1st, 1940 (January 01 1940) | Birth | Frank Langella, American actor | |
| January 1st, 1940 (January 01 1940) | Death | Panuganti Lakshminarasimha Rao, Indian writer and essayist (born in 1865) | |
| January 1st, 1939 (January 01 1939) | Event | William Hewlett and David Packard found Hewlett-Packard. | |
| January 1st, 1939 (January 01 1939) | Event | Sydney, Australia, swelters in 45 ?C (113 ?F) heat, a record for the city. | |
| January 1st, 1939 (January 01 1939) | Birth | Michele Mercier, French actress | |
| January 1st, 1938 (January 01 1938) | Birth | Robert Jankel, British coachbuilder (died in 2005) | |
| January 1st, 1938 (January 01 1938) | Birth | Clay Cole, American television host and producer | |
| January 1st, 1937 (January 01 1937) | Event | Safety glass in vehicle windscreens becomes mandatory in Great Britain. | |
| January 1st, 1937 (January 01 1937) | Event | Public Order Act is passed in Great Britain | |
| January 1st, 1937 (January 01 1937) | Birth | Adam Wisniewski-Snerg, Polish author (died in 1995) | |
| January 1st, 1935 (January 01 1935) | Birth | B. Kliban, American cartoonist (died in 1990) | |
| January 1st, 1934 (January 01 1934) | Event | Alcatraz Island becomes a United States federal prison. | |
| January 1st, 1934 (January 01 1934) | Event | Nazi Germany passes the "Law for the Prevention of Genetically Diseased Offspring". | |
| January 1st, 1933 (January 01 1933) | Birth | Joe Orton, English writer (died in 1967) | Joe Orton Quotes |
| January 1st, 1933 (January 01 1933) | Birth | Frederick Lowy, Canadian educator | |
| January 1st, 1933 (January 01 1933) | Birth | Norman Yemm, Australian actor | |
| January 1st, 1932 (January 01 1932) | Birth | Giuseppe Patane, Italian opera conductor (died in 1989) | |
| January 1st, 1932 (January 01 1932) | Birth | Jackie Parker, American football player (died in 2006) | |
| January 1st, 1932 (January 01 1932) | Death | C P Scott, British journalist, publisher and politician (born in 1846) | |
| January 1st, 1931 (January 01 1931) | Death | Martinus Beijerinck, Dutch microbiologist and botanist (born in 1851) | |
| January 1st, 1930 (January 01 1930) | Birth | Ty Hardin, American film actor | |
| January 1st, 1930 (January 01 1930) | Birth | Gaafar al-Nimeiry, President of Sudan 1971-85 | |
| January 1st, 1929 (January 01 1929) | Event | The former municipalities of Point Grey, British Columbia and South Vancouver, British Columbia are amalgamated into Vancouver. | |
| January 1st, 1928 (January 01 1928) | Birth | Ernest Tidyman, American writer (died in 1984) | |
| January 1st, 1927 (January 01 1927) | Event | Turkey adopts the Gregorian calendar: December 18, 1926 (Julian), is immediately followed by January 1, 1927 (Gregorian). | Julian Quotes |
| January 1st, 1927 (January 01 1927) | Birth | Doak Walker, American football star (died in 1998) | |
| January 1st, 1927 (January 01 1927) | Birth | Calum MacKay, Canadian hockey player (died in 2001) | |
| January 1st, 1927 (January 01 1927) | Birth | Maurice Bejart, French choreographer (died in 2007) | |
| January 1st, 1927 (January 01 1927) | Birth | Pat Heywood, Scottish actress | |
| January 1st, 1927 (January 01 1927) | Birth | Vernon L. Smith, American economist, winner | |
| January 1st, 1926 (January 01 1926) | Birth | Richard Verreau, French-Canadian tenor (died in 2005) | |
| January 1st, 1925 (January 01 1925) | Event | The American astronomer Edwin Hubble announces the discovery of galaxies outside the Milky Way. | |
| January 1st, 1925 (January 01 1925) | Birth | Matthew "Stymie" Beard, American actor (died in 1981) | |
| January 1st, 1925 (January 01 1925) | Birth | Valentina Cortese, Italian actress | |
| January 1st, 1925 (January 01 1925) | Birth | Raymond Pellegrin, French actor | |
| January 1st, 1923 (January 01 1923) | Event | Britain s Railways are grouped into the Big Four: LNER, GWR, SR, and LMSR. | |
| January 1st, 1923 (January 01 1923) | Birth | Daniel Gorenstein, American mathematician (died in 1992) | |
| January 1st, 1923 (January 01 1923) | Birth | Milt Jackson, American jazz vibraphonist (died in 1999) | |
| January 1st, 1922 (January 01 1922) | Event | The Greek Constitution of 1822 is adopted by the First National Assembly of Epidaurus. | |
| January 1st, 1922 (January 01 1922) | Birth | Rocky Graziano, American boxer (died in 1990) | |
| January 1st, 1922 (January 01 1922) | Birth | Ernest Hollings, American politician | |
| January 1st, 1921 (January 01 1921) | Birth | Ismail al-Faruqi, Palestinian philosopher (died in 1986) | Philo Quotes |
| January 1st, 1921 (January 01 1921) | Death | Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg, Chancellor of Germany (born in 1856) | |
| January 1st, 1920 (January 01 1920) | Event | The Belorussian Communist Organisation is founded as a separate party. | |
| January 1st, 1920 (January 01 1920) | Birth | Virgilio Savona, Italian singer (Quartetto Cetra) | Virgil Quotes |
| January 1st, 1919 (January 01 1919) | Event | Edsel Ford succeeds his father, Henry Ford, as president of the Ford Motor Company. | Henry Ford Quotes |
| January 1st, 1919 (January 01 1919) | Birth | Carole Landis, American film actress (died in 1948) | |
| January 1st, 1919 (January 01 1919) | Birth | J. D. Salinger, American novelist | J. D. Salinger Quotes |
| January 1st, 1919 (January 01 1919) | Death | Mikhail Drozdovsky, Russian general (born in 1881) | |
| January 1st, 1918 (January 01 1918) | Birth | Patrick Anthony Porteous, Scottish Victoria Cross recipient (died in 2000) | |
| January 1st, 1917 (January 01 1917) | Birth | Jule Gregory Charney, American meteorologist (died in 1981) | |
| January 1st, 1917 (January 01 1917) | Birth | Albert Mol, Dutch actor (died in 2004) | |
| January 1st, 1916 (January 01 1916) | Event | German troops abandon Yaounde and their Kamerun colony to British forces and begin the long march to Spanish Guinea. | |
| January 1st, 1914 (January 01 1914) | Birth | Noor Inayat Khan, Indian princess and SOE agent (died in 1944) | |
| January 1st, 1912 (January 01 1912) | Event | The Republic of China is established. | |
| January 1st, 1912 (January 01 1912) | Birth | Kim Philby, British spy (died in 1988) | |
| January 1st, 1912 (January 01 1912) | Birth | Boris Vladimirovich Gnedenko, Russian mathematician (died in 1995) | |
| January 1st, 1911 (January 01 1911) | Event | Northern Territory is separated from South Australia and transferred to Commonwealth control. | |
| January 1st, 1911 (January 01 1911) | Birth | Basil Dearden, British film director (died in 1971) | |
| January 1st, 1911 (January 01 1911) | Birth | Hank Greenberg, American baseball player (died in 1986) | |
| January 1st, 1910 (January 01 1910) | Event | 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. | Horatio Nelson Quotes |
| January 1st, 1909 (January 01 1909) | Event | Drilling begins on the Lakeview Gusher. | |
| January 1st, 1909 (January 01 1909) | Birth | Stepan Bandera, Ukrainian nationalist leader (died in 1959) | |
| January 1st, 1909 (January 01 1909) | Birth | Dana Andrews, American actor (died in 1992) | |
| January 1st, 1909 (January 01 1909) | Birth | Barry Goldwater, American politician (died in 1998) | Barry Goldwater Quotes |
| January 1st, 1908 (January 01 1908) | Event | For the first time, a ball is dropped in New York City s Times Square to signify the start of the New Year at midnight. | |
| January 1st, 1906 (January 01 1906) | Event | British India officially adopts the Indian Standard Time. | |
| January 1st, 1906 (January 01 1906) | Birth | Giovanni D Anzi, Italian songwriter (died in 1974) | |
| January 1st, 1906 (January 01 1906) | Death | Sir Hugh Nelson, Premier of Queensland (born in 1835) | |
| January 1st, 1905 (January 01 1905) | Birth | Stanislaw Mazur, Polish mathematician (died in 1981) | |
| January 1st, 1905 (January 01 1905) | Birth | Kamatari Fujiwara, Japanese actor (died in 1985) | |
| January 1st, 1904 (January 01 1904) | Birth | Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry, Pakistani politician (died in 1982) | |
| January 1st, 1904 (January 01 1904) | Birth | Ethan Allen, American baseball player (died in 1993) | |
| January 1st, 1902 (January 01 1902) | Event | The first American college football bowl game, the Rose Bowl between Michigan and Stanford, is held in Pasadena. | |
| January 1st, 1902 (January 01 1902) | Birth | Buster Nupen, South African cricketer (died in 1977) | |
| January 1st, 1901 (January 01 1901) | Event | Nigeria becomes a British protectorate. | |
| January 1st, 1901 (January 01 1901) | Event | The British colonies of New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania and Western Australia federate as the Commonwealth of Australia; Edmund Barton is appointed the first Prime Minister. | |
| January 1st, 1900 (January 01 1900) | Birth | Chiune Sugihara, Japanese diplomat (died in 1986) | |
| January 1st, 1900 (January 01 1900) | Birth | Xavier Cugat, Spanish musician (died in 1990) | |
| January 1st, 1899 (January 01 1899) | Event | Spanish rule ends in Cuba. | |
| January 1st, 1898 (January 01 1898) | Event | New York City annexes land from surrounding counties, creating the City of Greater New York. The four initial boroughs, Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, and The Bronx, are joined on January 25 by Staten Island to create the modern city of five boroughs. | |
| January 1st, 1896 (January 01 1896) | Death | Alfred Ely Beach, American inventor (born in 1826) | |
| January 1st, 1895 (January 01 1895) | Birth | J. Edgar Hoover, American FBI director (died in 1972) | |
| January 1st, 1894 (January 01 1894) | Event | The Manchester Ship Canal, England, is officially opened to traffic. | |
| January 1st, 1894 (January 01 1894) | Birth | Satyendra Nath Bose, Bengali mathematician (died in 1974) | |
| January 1st, 1894 (January 01 1894) | Birth | Shitsu Nakano, Japanese supercentenarian (died in 2007) | |
| January 1st, 1894 (January 01 1894) | Death | Heinrich Rudolf Hertz, German physicist (born in 1857) | |
| January 1st, 1893 (January 01 1893) | Event | Japan begins using the Gregorian calendar. | |
| January 1st, 1892 (January 01 1892) | Event | Ellis Island opens to begin processing immigrants into the United States. | |
| January 1st, 1892 (January 01 1892) | Birth | Manuel Roxas, Philippino politician (died in 1948) | |
| January 1st, 1892 (January 01 1892) | Birth | Artur Rodzinski, Croatian conductor (died in 1958) | |
| January 1st, 1892 (January 01 1892) | Death | Roswell B. Mason, Mayor of Chicago (born in 1805) | |
| January 1st, 1890 (January 01 1890) | Event | Eritrea is consolidated into a colony by the Italian government. | |
| January 1st, 1890 (January 01 1890) | Birth | Anton Melik, Slovenian geographer (died in 1966) | |
| January 1st, 1889 (January 01 1889) | Birth | Charles Bickford, American film actor (died in 1967) | |
| January 1st, 1888 (January 01 1888) | Birth | John Garand, American inventor (died in 1974) | |
| January 1st, 1887 (January 01 1887) | Birth | Wilhelm Canaris, German admiral (died in 1945) | Wilhelm Canaris Quotes |
| January 1st, 1881 (January 01 1881) | Birth | Vajiravudh, King of Thailand (died in 1925) | |
| January 1st, 1881 (January 01 1881) | Death | Louis Auguste Blanqui, French political activist (born in 1805) | |
| January 1st, 1880 (January 01 1880) | Event | Ferdinand de Lesseps begins French construction of the Panama Canal. | |
| January 1st, 1879 (January 01 1879) | Birth | William Fox, Hungarian-born American film producer (died in 1952) | William Hung Quotes |
| January 1st, 1879 (January 01 1879) | Birth | E. M. Forster, English novelist (died in 1970) | E. M. Forster Quotes |
| January 1st, 1878 (January 01 1878) | Birth | Agner Krarup Erlang, Danish scientist and engineer (died in 1929) | |
| January 1st, 1877 (January 01 1877) | Event | Queen Victoria of Britain is proclaimed Empress of India. | |
| January 1st, 1876 (January 01 1876) | Event | The Reichsbank opens in Berlin. | |
| January 1st, 1876 (January 01 1876) | Birth | Harriet Brooks, Canadian physicist (died in 1933) | |
| January 1st, 1874 (January 01 1874) | Birth | Gustave Whitehead, German inventor (died in 1927) | |
| January 1st, 1874 (January 01 1874) | Birth | Frank Knox, American Secretary of the Navy (died in 1944) | |
| January 1st, 1873 (January 01 1873) | Birth | Mariano Azuela, Mexican novelist (died in 1952) | |
| January 1st, 1869 (January 01 1869) | Death | Martin W. Bates, American politician (born in 1786) | |
| January 1st, 1868 (January 01 1868) | Birth | Snitz Edwards, American actor (died in 1937) | |
| January 1st, 1864 (January 01 1864) | Birth | Alfred Stieglitz, American photographer (died in 1946) | |
| January 1st, 1864 (January 01 1864) | Birth | Qi Baishi, Chinese painter (died in 1957) | |
| January 1st, 1863 (January 01 1863) | Event | American Civil War: The Emancipation Proclamation takes effect in Confederate territory. | |
| January 1st, 1863 (January 01 1863) | Event | The first claim under the Homestead Act is made by Daniel Freeman for a farm in Nebraska. | |
| January 1st, 1863 (January 01 1863) | Birth | Pierre de Coubertin, French organizer of the Olympic Games (died in 1937) | |
| January 1st, 1862 (January 01 1862) | Death | Mikhail Vasilievich Ostrogradsky, Russian physicist (born in 1801) | |
| January 1st, 1861 (January 01 1861) | Event | Porfirio Diaz conquers Mexico City. | |
| January 1st, 1854 (January 01 1854) | Birth | Sir James George Frazer, Scottish anthropologist (died in 1941) | James Frazer Quotes |
| January 1st, 1853 (January 01 1853) | Death | Gregory Blaxland, Australian explorer (born in 1778) | |
| January 1st, 1852 (January 01 1852) | Birth | Eugene-Anatole Demarcay, French chemist (died in 1904) | |
| January 1st, 1848 (January 01 1848) | Birth | John Goff, Irish lawyer (died in 1924) | |
| January 1st, 1845 (January 01 1845) | Event | The Cobble Hill Tunnel in Brooklyn is completed. | |
| January 1st, 1834 (January 01 1834) | Birth | Ludovic Halevy, French playwright (died in 1908) | |
| January 1st, 1833 (January 01 1833) | Event | The United Kingdom claims sovereignty over the Falkland Islands. | |
| January 1st, 1833 (January 01 1833) | Birth | Robert Lawson, New Zealand architect (died in 1902) | |
| January 1st, 1823 (January 01 1823) | Birth | Sandor Petofi, Hungarian poet and revolutionary (died in 1849) | |
| January 1st, 1819 (January 01 1819) | Birth | Arthur Hugh Clough, English poet (died in 1861) | Arthur Hugh Clough Quotes |
| January 1st, 1817 (January 01 1817) | Death | Martin Heinrich Klaproth, German chemist (born in 1743) | |
| January 1st, 1814 (January 01 1814) | Birth | Hong Xiuquan, Chinese rebel (died in 1864) | |
| January 1st, 1808 (January 01 1808) | Event | The importation of slaves into the United States is banned. | |
| January 1st, 1806 (January 01 1806) | Event | The French Republican Calendar is abolished. | |
| January 1st, 1804 (January 01 1804) | Event | French rule ends in Haiti. Haiti becomes the first black republic and first independent country in the West Indies. | |
| January 1st, 1803 (January 01 1803) | Event | Emperor Gia Long orders all bronze wares of the Tay Son Dynasty to be collected and melted into nine cannons for the Royal Citadel in Hu?, Vietnam. | |
| January 1st, 1803 (January 01 1803) | Birth | Guglielmo Libri Carucci dalla Sommaja, Italian mathematician (died in 1869) | |
| January 1st, 1801 (January 01 1801) | Event | The legislative union of Kingdom of Great Britain and Kingdom of Ireland is completed to form the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. | |
| January 1st, 1801 (January 01 1801) | Event | The dwarf planet Ceres is discovered by Giuseppe Piazzi. | |
| January 1st, 1800 (January 01 1800) | Event | The Dutch East India Company is dissolved. | |
| January 1st, 1800 (January 01 1800) | Death | Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton, French naturalist (born in 1716) | |
| January 1st, 1797 (January 01 1797) | Event | Albany replaces Kingston as the capital of New York State. | |
| January 1st, 1796 (January 01 1796) | Death | Alexandre-Theophile Vandermonde, French mathematician (born in 1735) | |
| January 1st, 1793 (January 01 1793) | Death | Francesco Guardi, Venetian painter (born in 1712) | |
| January 1st, 1789 (January 01 1789) | Death | Fletcher Norton, 1st Baron Grantley, English politician (born in 1716) | |
| January 1st, 1788 (January 01 1788) | Event | First edition of The Times of London, previously The Daily Universal Register, is published. | |
| January 1st, 1782 (January 01 1782) | Death | Johann Christian Bach, German composer (born in 1735) | |
| January 1st, 1781 (January 01 1781) | Event | 1,500 soldiers of the 6th Pennsylvania Regiment under General Anthony Wayne s command rebel against the Continental Army s winter camp in Morristown, New Jersey as part of the Pennsylvania (Continentals; Regiment) Mutiny of 1781. | |
| January 1st, 1779 (January 01 1779) | Birth | William Clowes, English printer (died in 1847) | |
| January 1st, 1774 (January 01 1774) | Birth | Andre Marie Constant Dumeril, French zoologist (died in 1860) | |
| January 1st, 1772 (January 01 1772) | Event | The first traveler s cheques, which can be used in 90 European cities, go on sale in London. | |
| January 1st, 1767 (January 01 1767) | Birth | Maria Edgeworth, Anglo-Irish novelist (died in 1849) | |
| January 1st, 1766 (January 01 1766) | Death | James Francis Edward Stuart, "The Old Pretender" (born in 1688) | |
| January 1st, 1759 (January 01 1759) | Death | Jacques-Joachim Trotti, marquis de La Chetardie, French adventurer (born in 1705) | |
| January 1st, 1752 (January 01 1752) | Birth | Betsy Ross, American seamstress (died in 1836) | |
| January 1st, 1750 (January 01 1750) | Birth | Frederick Muhlenberg, American statesman (died in 1801) | |
| January 1st, 1748 (January 01 1748) | Death | Johann Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (born in 1667) | |
| January 1st, 1745 (January 01 1745) | Birth | Anthony Wayne, American general and statesman (died in 1796) | |
| January 1st, 1742 (January 01 1742) | Death | Peregrine Bertie, 2nd Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, English statesman (born in 1686) | |
| January 1st, 1739 (January 01 1739) | Event | Bouvet Island is discovered by French explorer Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier. | |
| January 1st, 1735 (January 01 1735) | Birth | Paul Revere, American patriot (died in 1818) | |
| January 1st, 1730 (January 01 1730) | Death | Samuel Sewall, English judge (born in 1652) | |
| January 1st, 1716 (January 01 1716) | Death | William Wycherley, English dramatist (born in 1640) | William Wycherley Quotes |
| January 1st, 1714 (January 01 1714) | Birth | Kristijonas Donelaitis, Lithuanian poet (died in 1780) | |
| January 1st, 1711 (January 01 1711) | Birth | Franz Freiherr von der Trenck, Austrian soldier (died in 1749) | |
| January 1st, 1707 (January 01 1707) | Event | John V is crowned King of Portugal. | |
| January 1st, 1704 (January 01 1704) | Birth | Soame Jenyns, English writer (died in 1787) | |
| January 1st, 1700 (January 01 1700) | Event | Russia begins using the Anno Domini era and no longer uses the Anno Mundi era of the Byzantine Empire. | |
| January 1st, 1697 (January 01 1697) | Death | Filippo Baldinucci, Florentine biographer/historian (born in 1624) | |
| January 1st, 1684 (January 01 1684) | Birth | Arnold Drakenborch, Dutch classical scholar (died in 1748) | |
| January 1st, 1673 (January 01 1673) | Event | Regular mail service begins between New York and Boston. | |
| January 1st, 1655 (January 01 1655) | Birth | Christian Thomasius, German jurist (died in 1728) | |
| January 1st, 1651 (January 01 1651) | Event | Charles II is crowned King of Scotland. | |
| January 1st, 1648 (January 01 1648) | Birth | Elkanah Settle, English writer (died in 1724) | |
| January 1st, 1638 (January 01 1638) | Birth | Emperor Go-Sai of Japan (died in 1685) | |
| January 1st, 1631 (January 01 1631) | Death | Thomas Hobson, the "Cambridge Carrier", eponym of Hobson s Choice (born in 1544) | |
| January 1st, 1618 (January 01 1618) | Birth | baptised Bartolome Esteban Murillo, Spanish painter (died in 1682) | |
| January 1st, 1617 (January 01 1617) | Death | Hendrik Goltzius, Dutch painter (born in 1558) | |
| January 1st, 1614 (January 01 1614) | Birth | John Wilkins, English Bishop of Chester (died in 1672) | |
| January 1st, 1600 (January 01 1600) | Event | Scotland begins its numbered year on January 1 instead of 25 March. | |
| January 1st, 1600 (January 01 1600) | Birth | Friedrich Spanheim, Dutch theologian (died in 1649) | |
| January 1st, 1560 (January 01 1560) | Death | Joachim du Bellay, French poet (born in 1522) | |
| January 1st, 1559 (January 01 1559) | Death | Christian III of Denmark and Norway (born in 1503) | |
| January 1st, 1557 (January 01 1557) | Birth | Istvan Bocskay, Prince of Transylvania (died in 1606) | |
| January 1st, 1554 (January 01 1554) | Death | Pedro de Valdivia, Spanish conquistador (born in 1500) | |
| January 1st, 1527 (January 01 1527) | Event | Croatian nobles elect Ferdinand I of Austria as king of Croatia in the Parliament on Cetin. | |
| January 1st, 1516 (January 01 1516) | Birth | Margaret Leijonhufvud, Queen of Gustav I of Sweden (died in 1551) | |
| January 1st, 1515 (January 01 1515) | Event | King Francis I of France succeeds to the French throne. | |
| January 1st, 1515 (January 01 1515) | Death | King Louis XII of France (born in 1462) | |
| January 1st, 1511 (January 01 1511) | Birth | Henry, Duke of Cornwall (died in 1511) | |
| January 1st, 1484 (January 01 1484) | Birth | Huldrych Zwingli, Swiss Protestant leader (died in 1531) | |
| January 1st, 1467 (January 01 1467) | Birth | Sigismund I the Old, King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania (died in 1548) | |
| January 1st, 1449 (January 01 1449) | Birth | Lorenzo de Medici, Italian statesman (died in 1492) | |
| January 1st, 1438 (January 01 1438) | Event | Albert II of Habsburg is crowned King of Hungary. | |
| January 1st, 1431 (January 01 1431) | Birth | Pope Alexander VI (died in 1503) | Alexander Pope Quotes |
| January 1st, 1387 (January 01 1387) | Death | King Charles II of Navarre (born in 1332) | |
| January 1st, 1259 (January 01 1259) | Event | Michael VIII Palaiologos is proclaimed co-emperor of the Empire of Nicaea with his ward John IV Laskaris. | |
| January 1st, 1204 (January 01 1204) | Death | King Haakon III of Norway (c. 1170) | |
| January 1st, 1001 (January 01 1001) | Event | Grand Prince Stephen I of Hungary is named the first King of Hungary by Pope Silvester II. | Stephen King Quotes |
| January 1st, 0962 (January 01 0962) | Death | Baldwin III, Count of Flanders (c. 940) | |
| January 1st, 0898 (January 01 0898) | Death | Odo, Count of Paris (born in 860) | |
| January 1st, 0874 (January 01 0874) | Death | Hasan al-Askari, eleventh Shia Imam (born in 846) | |
| January 1st, 0766 (January 01 0766) | Birth | Ali al-Rida, Shia Imam (died in 818) | |
| January 1st, 0630 (January 01 0630) | Event | The Prophet Muhammad sets out toward Mecca with the army that captures it bloodlessly. | |
| January 1st, 0404 (January 01 0404) | Event | The last known gladiatorial competition in Rome takes place. | |
| January 1st, 0404 (January 01 0404) | Death | Saint Telemachus | |
| January 1st, 0379 (January 01 0379) | Death | Saint Basil of Caesarea (born in 330) | |
| January 1st, 0153 (January 01 0153) | Event | Roman consuls begin their year in office. | |
