1st of January in History from 42 BC to 2014.


1st of January is a unique day in our world. It is a day many see as the beginning of a new dawn; a new hope and a new beginning in all ramifications. And it is for this reason we compiled events of 1st of January from 42 BC to 2012. These are events that have in one way or the other affected our world especially those that happened in Nigeria.
Happy new year Enjoy!

• Nigeria's military kill 13 members of the Islamist militant group Boko Haram and lose one soldier in a gun battle in Maiduguri
• 2012 – President Goodluck Jonathan of Nigeria increased the pump price of petrol. The unpopular action threw the nation into unprecedented protests.
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• Nigeria 2012 Nigeria Ethnic Clashes Kill 50 in Nigeria Sunday, 1st January, 2012 : At least fifty people died after ethnic clashes broke out in Eastern Nigeria. The clashes took place in the state of Ebonyi between the Ezza and Ezilo people over a land dispute

• 2012 – Kim Jong-un is officially declared the new Supreme Leader of North Korea.
• 2011 – Brazil swears in Dilma Rousseff, its first female president.
• 2011 – Estonia officially adopts the Euro currency and becomes the seventeenth Eurozone country.
• 2010 – A suicide car bomber detonates at a volleyball tournament in Lakki Marwat, Pakistan, killing 105 and injuring 100 more.
• 2009 – 66 die in a nightclub fire in Bangkok, Thailand.
• 2008 – Malta and Cyprus officially adopt the Euro currency and become the fourteenth and fifteenth Eurozone countries.
• 2007 – 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.
• 2007 – Adam Air Flight 574 disappears over Indonesia with 102 people on board.
• January 2005 -Nigerias Inspector General of Police, Tafa Balogun, was forced to resign from office on corruption charges and subsequently tried and jailed by a court of law.
• 2004 – 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( of the Constitution of Pakistan, is “deemed to be elected” to the office of President until October 2007.
• 2002 – Euro banknotes and coins become legal tender in twelve of the European Union’s member states.
• 2002 – Taiwan officially joins the World Trade Organization, as Chinese Taipei.
• 2002 – The Open Skies mutual surveillance treaty, initially signed in 1992, officially comes into force.
• 1999 – The Euro currency is introduced in 11 countries – members of the European Union (with the exception of the United Kingdom, Denmark, Greece and Sweden).
• 1998 – Russia begins to circulate new rubles to stem inflation and promote confidence.
• 1998 – The European Central Bank is established.
• 1997 (January): Price of petrol is raised by 338 percent by the the Nigerian government, to reduce inflation and combat corruption. The governemt also introduces a five percent value-added tax (VAT), and devalued the currency by 386 percent.
• 1997 – Zaire officially joins the World Trade Organization.
• 1997 – Ghanaian diplomat Kofi Annan is appointed Secretary-General of the United Nations.
• 1996 – Curaçao gains limited self-government, though it remains within free association with the Netherlands.
• 1995 – The World Trade Organization goes into effect.
• 1995 – The Draupner wave in the North Sea in Norway is detected, confirming the existence of freak waves.
• 1995 – The Conference for Security and Co-operation in Europe becomes the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe.
• 1995 – Sweden, Austria, and Finland are admitted into the European Union.
• 1994 – The Zapatista Army of National Liberation initiates twelve days of armed conflict in the Mexican State of Chiapas.
• 1994 – The North American Free Trade Agreement comes into effect.
• 1993 - Chief Ernest Shonekan heads up a new civilian transitional council. Ibrahim Babangida remains head of state as Chairman of the National Defence and Security Council.
• 1993 – Dissolution of Czechoslovakia: Czechoslovakia is divided into Slovakia and the Czech Republic.
• 1993 – A single market within the European Community is introduced.
• 1992 – Russia is officially formed.
• 1990 – David Dinkins is sworn in as New York City’s first black mayor.
• 1989 – The Montreal Protocol Protocol on Substances That Deplete the Ozone Layer comes into force.
• 1988 – The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America comes into existence, creating the largest Lutheran denomination in the United States.
• 1986 – Aruba becomes independent of Curaçao, though it remains in free association with the Netherlands.
• 1986 – Spain and Portugal are admitted into the European Community.
January 1986 Ibrahim Babangida, Chairman of the Armed Forces Ruling Council, announces a transfer to civilian rule will occur on 1 October 1990.
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• 1985 – The Internet’s Domain Name System is created.
• 1985 – The first British mobile phone call is made by Ernie Wise to Vodafone.
• 1984 – The original American Telephone & Telegraph Company is divested of its 22 Bell System companies as a result of the settlement of the 1974 Justice anti-trust suit against AT&T.
• 1984 – Brunei becomes independent of the United Kingdom.
• 1984 – buhari in his new year speech declared “This government will not tolerate kick-backs, inflation of contracts and over-invoicing of imports etc. Nor will it condone forgery, fraud, embezzlement, misuse and abuse of office and illegal dealings in foreign exchange and smuggling.

• January 1983 - Nigerias Government expels more than one million foreigners, mostly Ghanaians, saying they had overstayed their visas and taking jobs from Nigerians.
• 1983 – The ARPANET officially changes to using the Internet Protocol, creating the Internet.
• 1982 – Peruvian Javier Pérez de Cuéllar becomes the first Latin American to hold the title of Secretary-General of the United Nations.
• 1981 – Greece is admitted into the European Community.
• 1981 – Palau achieves self-government though it is not independent from the United States.
• 1980 – Mob storms Russian embassy in Teheran.
• 1980 – Victoria is crowned princess of Sweden.
• 1979 – Formal diplomatic relations are established between the China and the United States.
• 1978 – Air India Flight 855 Boeing 747 crashes into the sea, due to instrument failure and pilot disorientation, off the coast of Bombay, India, killing 213.
• 1978 – The Constitution of the Northern Mariana Islands becomes effective.
• 1977 – Jacqueline Means was ordained the 1st woman of Episcopal priest.
• 1973 – Denmark, the United Kingdom, and Ireland are admitted into the European Economic Community.
• 1971 – Cigarette advertisements are banned on American television.
• 1970 – Unix time begins at 00:00:00 UTC/GMT.
• 1970 (January ): The Biafran War came to an end, leaving nearly two million people dead
• 1967 (January ): Nigeria's military leaders travel to Aburi near Acrra, Ghana to find a solution problems facing the country.
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• 1966 – A twelve-day New York City transit strike begins.
• January 15, 1966 - Fall of the First Republic in Nigeria, as Prime Minister Tafawa Balewa is killed in unsuccessful coup led by some Majors.
• 1966 – After a coup, Colonel Jean-Bédel Bokassa assumes power as president of the Central African Republic.
• 1965 – Palestinian al-Fatah organization forms.
• 1965 – The People’s Democratic Party of Afghanistan is founded in Kabul, Afghanistan.
• 1964 – The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland is divided into the independent republics of Zambia and Malawi, and the British-controlled Rhodesia.
• 1962 – Rwanda granted internal self-government by Belgium.
• 1962 – Western Samoa achieves independence from New Zealand; its name is changed to the Independent State of Western Samoa.
• 1962 – United States Navy SEALs established.
• 1960 – French Cameroon gains independence from France.
• 1959 – Chad becomes autonomous republic in French Community.
• 1959 – Fulgencio Batista, dictator of Cuba, is overthrown by Fidel Castro‘s forces during the Cuban Revolution.
• 1958 – The European Economic Community is established.
• 1957 – France returns Saar to becomes the 10th state of German Federal Republic.
• 1957 – George Town, Penang becomes a city by a royal charter granted by Elizabeth II.
• 1957 – An Irish Republican Army (IRA) unit attacks Brookeborough RUC barracks in one of the most famous incidents of the IRA’s Operation Harvest.
• 1956 – Sudan achieves independence from Egypt and the United Kingdom.
• 1956 – A new year event causes panic and stampedes at Yahiko Shrine, Yahiko, Niigata, Japan, killing at least 124 people.
• 1954 – NBC makes the first coast-to-coast NTSC colour broadcast when it telecast the Tournament of Roses Parade, with public demonstrations given across the United States on prototype colour receivers.
• 1949 – United Nations cease-fire takes effect in Kashmir from one minute before midnight. War between India and Pakistan stops accordingly.
• 1948 – The British railway network is nationalised to form British Railways.
• 1948 – The Constitution of Italy comes into force.
• 1947 – The American and British occupation zones in Germany, after World War II, merge to form the Bizone, that later became West Germany.
• 1947 – The Canadian Citizenship Act 1946 comes into effect, converting British subjects into Canadian citizens. Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King becomes the first Canadian citizen.
• 1945 – World War II: In retaliation for the Malmedy massacre, U.S. troops massacre 30 SS prisoners at Chenogne.
• 1945 – World War II: Operation Nordwind, the last major German offensive on the Western Front begins.
• 1945 – World War II: The German Luftwaffe launches Operation Bodenplatte, a massive, but failed attempt to knock out Allied air power in northern Europe in a single blow.
• 1942 – The Declaration by United Nations is signed by twenty-six nations.
• 1939 – Sydney, Australia, swelters in 45 ˚C (113 ˚F) heat, a record for the city.
• 1937 – Safety glass in vehicle windscreens becomes mandatory in the United Kingdom.
• 1934 – Alcatraz Island becomes a United States federal prison.
• 1934 – Nazi Germany passes the “Law for the Prevention of Genetically Diseased Offspring“.
• 1932 – The United States Post Office Department issues a set of 12 stamps commemorating the 200th anniversary of George Washington’s birth.
• 1932 – The Senate chooses Pertinax against his will to succeed Commodus as Roman emperor.
• 1929 – The former municipalities of Point Grey, British Columbia and South Vancouver, British Columbia are amalgamated into Vancouver.
• 1928 – 1st U.S. air-conditioned office building opens, San Antonio.
• 1928 – Boris Bazhanov defects through Iran. He is the only assistant of Joseph Stalin‘s secretariat to have defected from the Eastern Bloc.
• 1927 – Turkey adopts the Gregorian calendar: December 18, 1926 (Julian), is immediately followed by January 1, 1927 (Gregorian).
• 1927 – The Cristero War begins in Mexico.
• 1925 – Norway’s capital Christiania changes name to Oslo.
• 1923 – Union of Socialist Soviet Republics established.
• 1923 – Britain’s Railways are grouped into the Big Four: LNER, GWR, SR, and LMS.
• 1920 – The Belorussian Communist Organisation is founded as a separate party.
• 1916 – German troops abandon Yaoundé and their Cameroon colony to British forces and begin the long march to Spanish Guinea.
• 1914 – Frederick John Dealtry Lugard became the Governor-General of the Colony and Protectorate of Nigeria
• 1913 – The British Board of Censors is established.
• 1912 – The Republic of China is established.
• 1911 – Northern Territory is separated from South Australia and transferred to Commonwealth control.
• 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.
• 1909 – Drilling begins on the Lakeview Gusher.
• 1908 – For the first time, a ball is dropped in New York, New York’s Times Square to signify the start of the New Year at midnight.
• 1907 – President Theodore Roosevelt shakes a record 8,513 hands in 1 day.
• 1906 – British India officially adopts the Indian Standard Time.
• 1902 – The first American college football bowl game, the Rose Bowl between Michigan and Stanford, is held in Pasadena, California.
• 1901 – Australia declares independence from federation of U.K. colonies.
• 1901 – Nigeria becomes a British protectorate.
• 1901 – 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.
• 1900 – British protectorates of Northern and Southern Nigeria established.
• 1899 – Spanish rule ends in Cuba.
• 1898 – New York, New York 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.
• 1897 – Brooklyn merges with New York to form present City of New York.
• 1896 – Wilhelm Rontgen announces his discovery of x-rays.
• 1894 – The Manchester Ship Canal, England, is officially opened to traffic.
• 1892 – Ellis Island opens to begin processing immigrants into the United States.
• 1890 – Eritrea is consolidated into a colony by the Italian government.
• 1890 – The Tournament of Roses Parade in Pasadena, California, is first held.
• 1885 – Twenty-five nations adopt Sandford Fleming‘s proposal for standard time (and also, time zones)
• 1880 – Ferdinand de Lesseps begins French construction of the Panama Canal.
• 1877 – Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom is proclaimed Empress of India.
• 1873 – Japan begins using the Gregorian calendar.
• 1863 – American Civil War: The Emancipation Proclamation takes effect in Confederate territory.
• 1863 – The first claim under the Homestead Act is made by Daniel Freeman for a farm in Nebraska.
• 1862 (January 1): Lagos Island is annexed as a colony of Britain
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• 1861 – Porfirio Díaz conquers Mexico City.
• 1860 – First Polish stamp is issued.
• 1847 – The world’s first “Mercy” Hospital is founded in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania by the Sisters of Mercy; the name will go on to grace over 30 major hospitals throughout the world.
• 1846 Yucatan declares independence from Mexico.
• 1845 – The Cobble Hill Tunnel in Brooklyn is completed.
• 1833 – The United Kingdom claims sovereignty over the Falkland Islands.
• 1822 – The Greek Constitution of 1822 is adopted by the First National Assembly at Epidaurus.
• 1818 Official reopening of the White House.
• 1812 – The Bishop of Durham, Shute Barrington, orders troops from Durham Castle to break up a miners strike in Chester-le-Street, Co. Durham
• 1810 – Major-General Lachlan Macquarie CB officially becomes Governor of New South Wales
• 1808 – The importation of slaves into the United States is banned by the Congress
• 1808 – Sierra Leone becomes a British colony.
• 1806 – The French Republican Calendar is abolished.
• 1804 – French rule ends in Haiti. Haiti becomes the first black republic and second independent country in North America after the United States
• 1803 – Emperor Gia Long orders all bronze wares of the Tây Sơn Dynasty to be collected and melted into nine cannons for the Royal Citadel in Huế, Vietnam.
• 1801 – The legislative union of Kingdom of Great Britain and Kingdom of Ireland is completed to form the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
• 1801 – The dwarf planet Ceres is discovered by Giuseppe Piazzi.
• 1801 – United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland established.
• 1800 – The Dutch East India Company is dissolved.
• 1788 – First edition of The Times of London, previously The Daily Universal Register, is published.
• 1781 – American Revolutionary War: 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 in the Pennsylvania Line Mutiny of 1781.
• 1776 – American Revolutionary War: Norfolk, Virginia is burned by combined Royal Navy and Continental Army action.
• 1773 – The hymn that became known as “Amazing Grace“, then titled “1 Chronicles 17:16–17″ is first used to accompany a sermon led by John Newton in the town of Olney, England.
• 1772 – The first traveller’s cheques, which can be used in 90 European cities, go on sale in London, England, Great Britain.
• 1739 – Bouvet Island is discovered by French explorer Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier.
• 1707 – John V is crowned King of Portugal.
• 1700 – Russia begins using the Anno Domini era and no longer uses the Anno Mundi era of the Byzantine Empire.
• 1651 – Charles II is crowned King of Scotland.
• 1600 – Scotland begins its numbered year on January 1 instead of March 25.
• 1527 – Croatian nobles elect Ferdinand I of Austria as king of Croatia in the Parliament on Cetin.
• 1515 – King Francis I of France succeeds to the French throne.
• 1502 – The present-day location of Rio de Janeiro is first explored by the Portuguese.
• 1438 – Albert II of Habsburg is crowned King of Hungary.
• 1259 – Michael VIII Palaiologos is proclaimed co-emperor of the Empire of Nicaea with his ward John IV Laskaris.
• 1068 – Romanos IV Diogenes marries Eudokia Makrembolitissa and is crowned Byzantine Emperor.
• 1001 – Grand Prince Stephen I of Hungary is named the first King of Hungary by Pope Sylvester II.
• 417 BC – Emperor Honorius forces Galla Placidia into marriage to Constantius, his famous general (magister militum).
• 414 BC – Galla Placidia, half-sister of Emperor Honorius, is married to the Visigothic king Ataulf at Narbonne. The wedding is celebrated with Roman festivities and magnificent gifts from theGothic booty.
• 404 BC – An infuriated Roman mob tears Telemachus, a Christian monk, to pieces for trying to stop a gladiators‘ fight in the public arena held in Rome.
• 153 BC – Roman consuls begin their year in office.
• 69 BC – The Roman legions in Germania Superior refuse to swear loyalty to Galba. They rebel and proclaim Vitellius as emperor.
• 45 BC – The Julian calendar takes effect for the first time.
• 42 BC – The Roman Senate posthumously deifies Julius Caesar

Here is wishing you peace, joy, success and fulfilment in 2015 and beyond. Happy New Year!


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some of them are really interesting

Significant events and history

Nice to know what happened on the first day of the year i was born

thanks

@OP, do you mean 404 AD or 404BC? because I do not think there was anything like Christianity around 404BC, Christ was not even born!

U tried.kudos to you