January 1 holidays, events, history
👉 HOLIDAYS:
🌏 New Year’s Day.
🌏 World Peace Day.
🌏 Public Wealth Day.
🔹 NATIONAL HOLIDAYS:
🇪🇺 European Union – Euro Day.
🇮🇶 Iraq – Sovereignty Day.
🇹🇼 Taiwan – National Day.
🇸🇩 Sudan – Independence Day.
🇨🇲 Cameroon – Independence Day.
🇭🇹 Haiti – Independence Day.
🇨🇺 Cuba – Freedom Day.
🇸🇰 Slovakia – Slovak Republic Day.
🇨🇿 Czech Republic – Czech Republic Independence Day.
🇺🇸 USA – Ellis Island Day.
🇱🇹 Lithuania – Flag Day.
👉 EVENTS:
– BC 153 – The beginning of the annual consulship in ancient Rome was moved to January 1.
– 45 BC – The Julian calendar
first came into force.
-1622 – The papal office decided to start the year on January 1.
– 1751 – The first volume of the famous encyclopedia by Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d’Alembert was published.
– 1785 – The first issue of the oldest daily London newspaper, The Daily Universal Register, was published (the name changed to The Times on January 1, 1788).
– 1793 – During the French Revolution, the “Committee of National Security” was created by the decree of the Convention.
-1801 – Palermo astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi discovered the first asteroid – Ceres. Ceres is not currently considered an asteroid.
– 1801 – After another rebellion in Ireland, the Irish Parliament was dissolved.
-1804 – Haiti declared independence.
– 1806 – The use of the republican calendar in France was discontinued.
– 1813 – The Russian army began its campaign.
– 1863 – Abraham Lincoln published a manifesto on the liberation of slaves.
-1886 – England invaded Burma.
– 1887 – Queen Victoria of Great Britain was proclaimed Empress of India.
– 1887 – The first book about Sherlock Holmes – “A Study in Scarlet” was published.
– 1909 – The first pension payments were made in Great Britain.
– 1912 – The Republic of China is proclaimed in Nanjing.
– 1919 – The Byelorussian SSR is formed.
– 1925 – The capital of Norway changes its name from Kristiania to Oslo.
– 1934 – Alcatraz officially becomes a federal prison in the United States.
– 1935 – Titles are abolished in Turkey and surnames are introduced.
– 1942 – 26 countries sign the Washington Declaration, forming the Anti-Hitler Coalition.
– 1946 – Emperor Hirohito of Japan renounces his divine status.
– 1947 – Churchill delivers the Fulton Speech about the USSR’s Iron Curtain.
– 1949 – An agreement is signed between India and Pakistan to end the war.
– 1956 – Sudan gains independence from Egypt and Great Britain.
– 1958 – The European Economic Community begins its work.
– 1959 – The government of F. Batista in Cuba is overthrown, and power passes to Fidel Castro.
– 1973 – Great Britain, Ireland and Denmark join the European Union.
– 1983 – ARPANET changes its main protocol from NCP to TCP/IP, which gives rise to the modern Internet.
– 1984 – Brunei gains independence.
– 1991 – The first issue of the newspapers “Xalq so’zi” and “Narodnoe slovo” is published.
– 1992 – Serbia and Croatia agree to the deployment of UN troops in the region.
– 1993 – Czechoslovakia split into the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
– 1995 – A new passport was introduced in Uzbekistan.
– 1995 – Austria, Finland and Sweden joined the European Union. The number of member states of the Union reached 15. The Schengen Agreement was implemented.
– 1998 – The “Tax Code” was implemented in Uzbekistan.
– 1999 – The Euro was introduced for non-cash payments.
– 2002 – The Euro was introduced for cash payments.
– 2004 – The SCO Regional Anti-Terrorist Structure (RATS) began operating in Tashkent.
– 2007 – Bulgaria and Romania joined the European Union.
– 2007 – Slovenia joins the eurozone.
– 2007 – Ban Ki-moon becomes the 8th Secretary-General of the United Nations.
– 2008 – The death penalty is abolished in Uzbekistan.
– 2009 – Slovakia joins the eurozone.
– 2011 – Estonia joins the eurozone.
– 2017 – Antoni Guterres takes office as UN Secretary-General.
