Editing January 1 (section)

=== Up to 1800 ===
* [[153 BC]] &ndash; [[Roman consul]]s begin their [[year]] in office.
* [[45 BC]] &ndash; The [[Julian calendar]] is first used.
* [[193]] &ndash; The day after [[Commodus]] is murdered, the [[Roman Senate]] chooses [[Pertinax]] to succeed him as [[Roman emperor]].
* [[1001]] &ndash; [[Stephen I of Hungary|Stephen I]] is named as the first [[King of Hungary]] by [[Pope Sylvester II]].
* [[1438]] &ndash; [[Albert II of Habsburg]] is crowned [[King of Hungary]].
* [[1502]] &ndash; [[Exploration]] of the place where [[Rio de Janeiro]] is now. The name means "River of January". It is named because its [[bay]] was mistaken for a [[river]].
* [[1515]] &ndash; [[Francis I of France|Francis I]] becomes [[King of France]].
* [[1600]] &ndash; [[Scotland]] begins its numbered year on January 1 instead of [[March 25]].
* [[1651]] &ndash; [[Charles II of England|Charles II]] becomes [[King of Scotland]].
* [[1660]] &ndash; [[Samuel Pepys]] starts writing his famous [[diary]].
* [[1700]] &ndash; [[Russia]] starts using Western numbers for its [[Russian calendar|calendar]].
* [[1707]] &ndash; [[John V of Portugal|John V]] becomes [[King of Portugal]].
* [[1739]] &ndash; [[Bouvet Island]] in the [[South Atlantic Ocean]] is discovered by Frenchman [[Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier]].
* [[1776]] &ndash; [[American Revolutionary War]]: [[Norfolk, Virginia]] is burned by combined [[Royal Navy]] and [[Continental Army]] action.
* [[1781]] &ndash; [[The Iron Bridge]] built from plans by [[Abraham Darby III]] in [[Coalbrookdale]] on the [[England]]-[[Wales]] border, is officially opened.
* [[1788]] &ndash; In [[London]], the first issue of ''[[The Times]]'' [[newspaper]] is printed.
* [[1800]] &ndash; The [[Dutch East India Company]] ends.